liveblogging the OGS
Category lotusphere
OK GO opens the the OGS with a 3 song set, including "All is Not Lost"... can't help hoping the audience is listening to that one.
Alistair calls attention to the 800 students GBS brought today.
Michael J. Fox takes the stage as guest speaker.
By the way, this live blog experience brought to you by Verizon 3G Mobile Hotspot... since the Lotusphere WiFi is, once again, completely useless.
Alistair retakes the stage, talking about the value and implications of "social business".
"I would probably shut off email too, if I wasn't running Notes."
"Imagine the possible: grab a Red Bull and the nearest nerd, and get going."
Alistair gives the Champions a shoutout, invites Novak on stage. Asks him to choose on behalf of the community, "demo or no demo". He chooses demo. Enter Jeff Schick.
Jeff describes some of the features in "Connections Next", hands off to Suzanne Livingston. She shows a notion of "embedded apps" within the Activity Stream. Showing reports, applications, email and calendar all integrated into a single coherent interface. I think this is what Portal was supposed to be a decade ago.
LotusLive Symphony (a.k.a. "IBM Docs") demo gets enthusiastic applause.
Community-specific activity metrics for community owners.
Real-time group video.
"Related Communities" feature allows integration across Connections deployments.
New mobile interface looks slick.
Jeff comes back and announces "IBM Connections Mail": front end for Domino or Exchange.... "strategy that will outlast Outlook".
IBM Docs: "content at rest equals cost, content in motion equals value"... Sharepoint is a "document coffin".
Ron showing Symphony viewer on iPad. Uploads a presentation from email to Connections in a couple finger gestures. Shows next version of Android interface for Connections, including more native device capability integration. Chatting via Sametime on the iPad, Briaplaces a video call directly from iPad via Unyte.
Jeff introduces CIO of Bayer. On a side note, apparently it's pronounced "buyer"... guess I've always mispronounced it. They have deployed Connections to 125,000 users.
Larry Bowden arrives to talk about "Web Experience"... I forget, is that what they call Portal now?
Larry introduces Brian Cheng to do some demos, crowd goes wild. Brian's a rock star. He shows integrated web content management driven from the iPad mobile interface, including basic video editing. Cool stuff.
Brian introduces Sandy Carter. Sandy describes the "social business adgenda", then announces CIO of Premier healthcare alliance.
Kevin Cavanaugh and Doug Cox now on stage, announcing some new features for Notes and Domino, and now Ron is back, showing the same kind of embedded experiences Suzanne was showing in Connection, but in the Notes client.
XPages can be embedded applications... XPages can also consume embedded applications. Ron pulls up Designer and calls attention to the Connections Client component from the Social Business Toolkit.
iNotes supports these embedded applications as well.
Ron shows the Notes browser plugin. Thunderous applause.
"LotusNotes Social Edition"... sometime later this year.
Cavanaugh mentions GBS Transformer as an option for turning Notes apps into XPage apps.
Doug describes the XWork offering.
Kevin describes OpenNTF as "exremely vital".
Trilog wins "Innovation in Social Business Application Development".
Doug introduces Mike Rhoidn to talk about SmartCloud.
LotusLive is now IBM Smart Cloud for Social Business.
Rhodin hands off to GAD, another customer testimonial.
Now Kristen Lauria. Should be interesting to hear her perspective.
"Delivering Better Business Results through Social Business Solutions in the Cloud": Applicable Limited
Final award (CTO Award): Ascendant wins.
Kristen introduces Dr. Jeffrey Burns from Children's Hospital Boston.
Inspiring story about creation of a social network for doctors to facilitate better treatment worldwide.
Alistair announces there will be a Lotusphere 2013.
All in all, a well-paced OGS. Nothing earth-shattering, but the crowd seems to have enjoyed the show.
OK GO opens the the OGS with a 3 song set, including "All is Not Lost"... can't help hoping the audience is listening to that one.
Alistair calls attention to the 800 students GBS brought today.
Michael J. Fox takes the stage as guest speaker.
By the way, this live blog experience brought to you by Verizon 3G Mobile Hotspot... since the Lotusphere WiFi is, once again, completely useless.
Alistair retakes the stage, talking about the value and implications of "social business".
"I would probably shut off email too, if I wasn't running Notes."
"Imagine the possible: grab a Red Bull and the nearest nerd, and get going."
Alistair gives the Champions a shoutout, invites Novak on stage. Asks him to choose on behalf of the community, "demo or no demo". He chooses demo. Enter Jeff Schick.
Jeff describes some of the features in "Connections Next", hands off to Suzanne Livingston. She shows a notion of "embedded apps" within the Activity Stream. Showing reports, applications, email and calendar all integrated into a single coherent interface. I think this is what Portal was supposed to be a decade ago.
LotusLive Symphony (a.k.a. "IBM Docs") demo gets enthusiastic applause.
Community-specific activity metrics for community owners.
Real-time group video.
"Related Communities" feature allows integration across Connections deployments.
New mobile interface looks slick.
Jeff comes back and announces "IBM Connections Mail": front end for Domino or Exchange.... "strategy that will outlast Outlook".
IBM Docs: "content at rest equals cost, content in motion equals value"... Sharepoint is a "document coffin".
Ron showing Symphony viewer on iPad. Uploads a presentation from email to Connections in a couple finger gestures. Shows next version of Android interface for Connections, including more native device capability integration. Chatting via Sametime on the iPad, Briaplaces a video call directly from iPad via Unyte.
Jeff introduces CIO of Bayer. On a side note, apparently it's pronounced "buyer"... guess I've always mispronounced it. They have deployed Connections to 125,000 users.
Larry Bowden arrives to talk about "Web Experience"... I forget, is that what they call Portal now?
Larry introduces Brian Cheng to do some demos, crowd goes wild. Brian's a rock star. He shows integrated web content management driven from the iPad mobile interface, including basic video editing. Cool stuff.
Brian introduces Sandy Carter. Sandy describes the "social business adgenda", then announces CIO of Premier healthcare alliance.
Kevin Cavanaugh and Doug Cox now on stage, announcing some new features for Notes and Domino, and now Ron is back, showing the same kind of embedded experiences Suzanne was showing in Connection, but in the Notes client.
XPages can be embedded applications... XPages can also consume embedded applications. Ron pulls up Designer and calls attention to the Connections Client component from the Social Business Toolkit.
iNotes supports these embedded applications as well.
Ron shows the Notes browser plugin. Thunderous applause.
"LotusNotes Social Edition"... sometime later this year.
Cavanaugh mentions GBS Transformer as an option for turning Notes apps into XPage apps.
Doug describes the XWork offering.
Kevin describes OpenNTF as "exremely vital".
Trilog wins "Innovation in Social Business Application Development".
Doug introduces Mike Rhoidn to talk about SmartCloud.
LotusLive is now IBM Smart Cloud for Social Business.
Rhodin hands off to GAD, another customer testimonial.
Now Kristen Lauria. Should be interesting to hear her perspective.
"Delivering Better Business Results through Social Business Solutions in the Cloud": Applicable Limited
Final award (CTO Award): Ascendant wins.
Kristen introduces Dr. Jeffrey Burns from Children's Hospital Boston.
Inspiring story about creation of a social network for doctors to facilitate better treatment worldwide.
Alistair announces there will be a Lotusphere 2013.
All in all, a well-paced OGS. Nothing earth-shattering, but the crowd seems to have enjoyed the show.
