Software Early programs Lotus IBM Customer Experience Suite, IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager Open Beta

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

Welcome to the the first beta release of IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager.

Web portals allow partners, employees and customers to choose their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs. IBM Web Content Manager can help organizations increase the efficiency and accuracy of web site deployments by placing content creation in the hands of content experts – while IT can retain control. Through advanced personalization, IBM Web Content Manager can deliver the right information to the right audience exactly when they need it. These investments can generate revenue and efficiency gains for all size organizations through scalable, cost-effective web experience platforms that deliver improved customer experiences and operating use.

This beta release operates on WebSphere Application Server Version 8, and includes updates that can provide your users with a more social, mobile and integrated experience.

Version 8.0 Beta one highlights include

  • Web Analytics
    • More flexible options to tag pages, portlets or web content and measure their usefulness through Campaign and Custom tags.
    • New user-friendly overlay statistics provide an in-line view to track effectiveness of a web property.
  • Social Business in Context
    • New Community Page support lets you more readily scope and place IBM Connections portlets in the right Portal and WCM context.
    • A consistent tagging and rating experience between WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager, and IBM Connections.
    • OpenID Authentication lets portal users authenticate with public social network credentials, such as a Facebook ID, Google ID or Yahoo ID.
  • Rich Web Content Management
    • Create WCM pages and content with point-and-click simplicity with the new Content Templating user interface.
    • Integrate with ECM and other systems through Web Content Manager support for the CMIS standard.
  • Search Optimization
    • Optimize external search for Web content rendered through WebSphere Portal.

Please visit the following sites for more information.

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New Portlets Available for Connections 3.0.1

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

Reposted from from Socialize Me by Luis Benitez

Because Mac Guidera is out of the office and is probably not able to share these great news (he’s the Product Manager for the awesome Connections plugins), I figured I would do so. Today we made available new portlets for Connections 3.0.1. As I mentioned earlier, we had 9 portlets for: Wikis, Activities, Profiles, Bookmarks, Tag Cloud, and Blogs.

Today, we’ve released new portlets that support Ideation blogs and add support for 3rd party authentication providers (TAM / Siteminder).

Even though the portlets are called Connections 3.0.1 Portlets, they support:

  • IBM Lotus Connections 2.5
  • IBM Lotus Connections 3.0
  • IBM Connections 3.0.1
  • IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5.2*
  • IBM WebSphere Portal Server 7.0.0.1*
  • Microsoft Windows XP SP3
  • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit, 64-bit toleration)
  • Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.5, 3.6
  • Apple Safari 4

You can download the portlets, for free as usual, from the Lotus App Catalog here:https://greenhouse.lotus.com/plugins/plugincatalog.nsf/assetDetails.xsp?action=editDocument&documentId=511C128045FCD5D1852577B60055AD81

Thanks to the plugin team for making this available!

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Audiocast on IBM Mobile strategy

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

If you like to get the latest update on where IBM Collaboration Solutions is heading with there mobile strategy you should attend these webcast:

May 26th – Sametime Mobile strategy and solutions

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Sametime+Mobile+Strategy&iso=20110526T12&p1=43&ah=1

June 9th – Lotus Notes Traveler Mobile strategy and solutions

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Lotus+Notes+Traveler+Mobile+Strategy+and+Solutions&iso=20110609T12&p1=43&ah=1
 

Audio Web Conference Information
1. Go to the URL – http://www.lotuslive.com/join?schedid=3336625
2. Enter your name and email address
3. Click the ‘Log In’ button

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Smartphones becoming generic harware?!

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

There is a clear trend among the smartphone manufacturers to open up there boot loaders for user to load there own roms on to the phones.

First we saw Sony Ericsson CTO talking about the potential of them unlocking the boot loader and a few weeks later Sony Ericsson released a site showing users how to actually unlock the phones shipped with Android.

The actual unlocking is a 14-step process which requires the Android SDK, but overall, it doesn’t look particularly difficult of complicated. It currently only works for or will work for phones from 2011, such as the Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia pro and Xperia PLAY, and then only of they are unbranded.

http://unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com/

Yester day HTC posted a message on Facebook regarding there stance on unlocking the boot loader.

“Thanks so much for providing feedback, we hear your concerns. Your satisfaction is a top priority for us and we’re working hard to ensure you have great experiences with our phones. We’re reviewing the issue and our policy around bootloaders and will provide more information soon. Thank you for your interest, support and willingness to share your feedback.”

I hope this is a first step moving in the direction where we wont see any more Touch, Sense,  UX. Where the smartphone vendors are realizing that it’s to expensive to customize the user experience for every release of Android.

I personally think this is the beginning for the Android side of the smartphone market to move to a pc based model where we will se Google driving the software development just like we do with Microsoft driving Windows or Canonical driving Ubunty and the smartphone manufacturers providing drivers for there specific devices like the HP, Lenovo and Dells of the pc market.

Personally I’m all for this model as it would provide me with faster updates to the latest version of Android and a bigger selection of hardware to choose form, right now you are stuck with the Nexus series if you like to try to keep up with what Google is doing.

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IBM Collaboration Solutions Mobile Jam

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Lars-Olof Allerhed

Lotus Support and Lotus User Experience are hosting a 4-day event May 16 – 19 especially for users of Lotus mobile products. Mobile Jam will feature a number of activities focused on helping you be more successful with Lotus mobility products.
The User Experience Design and Information Community has set up a special sub-community for anyone interested in IBM Collaboration Solutions mobile products. This sub-community includes IBMers, business partners, and customers.
Why should you join?
First, this will be one of the go-to places for Mobile Jam news and information.
In the community, you will also be able to:

Connect with other community members here on all things mobile
Work with the IBM design team to help improve our mobile product
Share your mobile experience and expertise
Help the Information Development team expand and improve technical content for mobile products, including product documentation. 

How to join?
In order to join the Mobile sub-community, you must first be a member of the User Experience Design and Information Community, on Lotus Greenhouse. Follow the instructions here, under “How to join the community”.
Once you have joined the community, or if you are already a member, do this to join the Mobile subcommunity:

On the left-hand navigation panel in the UX Community, under the Subcommunities heading, click on the link “Special interest: Mobile”.
Click the “Join this community” button in the upper right-hand side of the page.

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