IBM Connections
Suite V1.0 powers social business
IBM United States
Software Announcement 212-087
May 15, 2012
IBM® Connections Suite V1.0
brings together, in one easy-to-buy bundle, industry-leading social
collaboration and document management software from IBM designed to help create vibrant internal
business communities where creative ideas can grow and be shared.
IBM Connections Suite can
help you:
- Immediately reach out and engage with colleagues where they live
and work on a broad set of devices
- Discover new insights from valuable, existing content while maintaining
security-rich document storage processes
- Participate in collaborative and nimble teams of experts from
across an organization to address emerging business opportunities
quickly
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL.
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IBM Connections Suite V1.0
offers capabilities that help empower professionals to explore new
and transformational ways to build and leverage their professional
networks. Information and expertise becomes more transparent and accessible,
opening up new sources of knowledge and insight. This suite is designed
to help people be more responsive and efficient in their tasks and
help make the organization as a whole more nimble, engaged, and innovative.
By combining IBM Sametime® Advanced, IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client, IBM Lotus® Quickr® Connectors, and IBM Connections with Community Document
Libraries powered by IBM FileNet®, this suite helps provide
exceptional value in built-for-business social software complete with
robust document management and real-time unified communications.
IBM Connections Suite V1.0
is designed to:
- Help contribute to cost efficiencies with a standards driven approach
to real-time collaboration within an encrypted, authenticated, and
managed environment.
- Allow for quick access to trusted expertise from an extended internal
professional network to help execute business tasks more efficiently
and make decisions faster.
- Help effectively share content and knowledge across teams and
the broader organization while keeping information appropriately managed
with security in mind.
IBM Connections Suite V1.0
helps your organization transform into a social business by providing
immediate and cost-effective ways to optimize how people communicate,
collaborate, and take action across an extended business network.
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Refer to the Hardware requirements section for details.
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May 15, 2012: Electronic availability
May 30, 2012: Media availability
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In addition to the rich set of social collaboration capabilities
independently offered by IBM Connections
and IBM Sametime, IBM Connections
Suite V1.0 allows you to take advantage of existing points of integration.
- Presence and awareness - Know if someone is available without
leaving your IBM Connections
environment.
- Community collaboration - Leverage IBM Sametime broadcast channels
to reach out to IBM Connections
Community members in real time with Instant Broadcast Announcements,
Broadcast Chats, and Polls.
- Business card integration - Leverage business cards in IBM Connections and IBM Sametime to
see a person's availability and to access that person's profile, blogs,
wikis, communities, and more. Launch a chat session directly from
the business card by right-clicking on the person's name.
IBM Connections capabilities:
- Home page - Use the home page to see a snapshot of updates collected
from across your subscriptions, notifications, and network of colleagues.
- Communities - In Communities, members can participate in community-specific
activities and forums, and can share blogs, bookmarks, feeds, and
files.
- Community document libraries - Configure IBM FileNet libraries
to display, access, and manage content from within a Connections Community.
Document libraries support document check-in and check-out, versioning,
access control, and prompting for required metadata.
- Profiles - Permits you to search for people across your organization
using tags to identify expertise, current projects, and responsibilities.
- Activities - Provides capabilities for gathering and sharing project
documents, and working with colleagues to complete tasks.
- Files - Provides a repository in which you can upload files and
share them with others.
- Wikis - Permits individuals, groups, and communities to capture,
share, and co-author information.
- Forums - Allows individuals to share ideas with, and benefit from,
the expertise of others.
- Blogs - Provides the ability to create online journals that you
can use to deliver timely information to others. You can use a blog
to present your ideas and get feedback from others or learn from the
expertise of others who blog.
- Bookmarks - Helps you save, share, and discover bookmarks through
this social bookmarking service.
IBM Lotus Quickr Connectors
- Author, share, collaborate, and manage Connections community document
library content in FileNet using
desktop applications such as Microsoft™ Windows™ Explorer, Microsoft Office 2003 to 2010, Microsoft Outlook, IBM Lotus
Notes®, IBM Sametime, and IBM Lotus Symphony™.
IBM Sametime Advanced provides the following
unified communications and collaboration features:
- Unified communications and collaboration core capabilities:
- Presence awareness
- Secure, enterprise instant messaging
- Federation with Public Instant Messaging services
- Offline messaging
- File and folder transfer options
- Integrated Voice (VoIP) and desktop video
- Mobile device support
- Open APIs and an extensible client
- Online meetings - Persistent meeting rooms with native and third-party
audio and video from both the rich client and the browser-based desktop
meeting experience.
- Instant share - Share or remotely control a computer desktop with
colleagues.
- Persistent group chat rooms - Create, enter, read, and contribute
to ongoing chats at any time from the rich client or a browser. Users
can be alerted to new content, events, and people in the chat room.
- Broadcast communities - Create and subscribe to real-time channels
devoted to various topics. Channel subscribers receive real-time alerts,
ask questions via Skill Tap, interact with experts, create and respond
to real-time polls, and join online group conversation.
- Organizational tree view - Leverage an organizational tree view
of your contacts to see the reporting structure of your company based
on the corporate directory.
- Bandwidth management - Bandwidth limits can be set to constrain
the overall amount of audio and video on the network consumed by Sametime. Administrators can
set policies to control bandwidth based on classes of users and locations.
IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client
IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client license
enables the Sametime Connect
rich client software to make and receive telephony and video calls
when configured with a certified telephony or audio video environment.
Note: Sametime Unified
Telephony Lite Client requires a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP)
trunk to be configured between the Sametime Media
Manager and a certified SIP environment. For a list of certified environments,
visit
- http://www.ibm.com/sametime
Accessibility by people with disabilities
A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
can be requested via the IBM website
- http://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html
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Today's world necessitates a social business. IBM Connections Suite V1.0, a solution for this
requirement, provides a rich set of social collaboration capabilities
whose benefits are further increased by the integrated manner in which
they can be used.
Here are a few examples of how these products can be used together.
From IBM Sametime
- Reach out to the members of your IBM Connections
community with instant broadcasts, polling, and announcements
- Utilize a dedicated persistent chat room or meeting room with
its own content library
- Engage with compelling native and third-party audio and video
in both the IBM Sametime rich client and browser-based online
meetings
From within your IBM Connections
environment
- Determine if someone is available via presence awareness
- Hover over an individual's name, and from the pop up business
card, click to chat or start an instant meeting
- With an additional click, move to a video or voice chat from the Sametime rich client chat window
From a user's IBM Connections
business card in the IBM Sametime rich client chat window
- Share or record your communication by adding your chat transcript
to a relevant IBM Connections
community forum or activity with a click of a button in the chat window
- From the business card click to quickly see your chat partner's
blogs, profiles, activities, bookmarks, communities, and more
From within an IBM Connections
community
- Access and use content libraries that leverage the capabilities
of IBM FileNet Content Manager
- Create, view, access, and manage corporate content and associated
metadata stored in IBM FileNet Content Manager
Consult the IBM Connections
Suite license and the licenses of the supporting programs that are
included with IBM Connections
Suite for the details of the offering's licensing terms. For example, IBM Connections, which is included
with the IBM Connections Suite,
may be used only by employees or independent contractors of licensee.
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Program VRM Program name
number
5725-G54 1.0.0 IBM Connections Suite
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
The proper operation of IBM Connections
and IBM Sametime Advanced requires that the latest
maintenance be applied for these products. Consult the product documentation
for more details.
For detailed hardware and software requirements, visit the following
websites.
IBM Connections 3.0.1
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27021342
IBM Quickr Connectors
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27009740
IBM Sametime Advanced 8.5.2 Interim Feature
Release (IFR)1
- https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=477&uid=swg27023282
IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client 8.5.2
Interim Feature Release (IFR)1
- https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=477&uid=swg27023285
IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.1
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3273&uid=swg27010422
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Refer to the Hardware requirements section.
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if available, such as a README file, or other information published
by IBM, such as an announcement
letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only
in the English language.
Planning information
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Maintenance) is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express®. Product upgrades and
technical support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support
(also referred to as Software Maintenance) offering as described in
the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases
to entitled software, and technical support provides voice and electronic
access to IBM support organizations,
worldwide.
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Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance)
with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software
Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance)
can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
Packaging
IBM Connections Suite will
be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution
(ESD).
- The License Information form number for IBM Connections Suite is L-CMAS-8RVSKP.
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of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls
in application systems and communication facilities.
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Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM Connections Suite IBM IBM
Connections Connections
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM Connections Suite 5725-G54 PA Per
Authorized User
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person.
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and requires an entitlement as if that device were a person.
Passport Advantage program
licenses
IBM Connections Suite
Part description Part
number
IBM Connections Suite
IBM Connections Suite per Authorized User Annual SW S&S E0DLCLL
Rnwl
IBM Connections Suite per Authorized User Lic + SW S&S D0P40LL
12 Mo
IBM Connections Suite per Authorized User SW S&S D0P41LL
Reinstate 12 Mo
Passport
Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
number
IBM Connections Suite V1.0.0
IBM Connections Suite V1.0 Multiplatform Multlingual AY00IML
Media Pack
Passport
Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products
listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
IBM Connections
Suite V1.0.0
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
IBM Connections Suite IBM Connections Suite V1.0 AY00IML
Authorized User Multiplatform Multlingual
Media Pack
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