Technology for social business: Infrastructure & deployment track

With IBM Lotus Domino Version 8.5.3 we continue to drive enhancements to help you manage your Domino environment and improve end user experience. Come to this session to learn about the new features of Domino 8.5.3 and get an early look at what is coming up in 2012.

The latest release of IBM Lotus Notes significantly increases the business value of one of the world's most popular collaboration clients. This release contains key functional enhancements as well as entitlements to additional social collaboration capabilities of IBM Connections. Come learn how these capabilities can immediately help in transforming your organization into a social business and how they set the stage for even more compelling enhancements in Lotus Notes "Next". See numerous consumability and productivity enhancements as well as better cross portfolio & mobile integration. In addition, get an early look at what new capabilities we plan to bring to Lotus Notes in 2012! Don't miss this consistently informative and popular session.

The best web-based messaging and collaboration client just gotten better! Come see what's new in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5.3 and the hosted IBM LotusLive Notes web offering, plus hear our plans for upcoming releases. The iNotes team has also been innovating in the open source and social mail spaces. Learn how these social technologies benefit iNotes, the rest of the IBM portfolio and your own projects. This session is packed with demos of the latest features, and previews of future additions such as embedded experiences, calendaring improvements, a lightweight system tray notifier and integration with IBM Connections, IBM Docs and even Lotus Notes applications. If browser clients are an integral part of your collaborative infrastructure strategy, then this session is for you!

Layering security solutions on top of a collaboration environment without confusion and disruption to end-users can be very difficult. Learn how IBM Lotus Protector provides security functions for your social business, while delivering new end-user functionality with the familiar ease of use you expect from IBM. Get the latest insight into the Lotus Protector suite, gain insights into the next release and leave with a better appreciation for what security means to a social business.

Many IT managers and IT architects find it challenging to justify upgrading an IBM Lotus Notes and Domino environment against an onslaught of demands to try something new. This session arms you with information to credibly defend the install base and enhance it with social capabilities of IBM Sametime, IBM Connections profiles and files. Learn how to present a compelling business case to justify upgrading your Notes and Domino environment, while choosing the most cost effect delivery model that best fits your requirements.

Get a head start on your upgrade plans by listening to the development team describe new features in IBM Lotus Notes & Domino Version 8.5.3 that you can take advantage of right away! We share our internal deployment experiences discussing the benefits, lessons learned and end user reactions to many of the new features in 8.5.3. We discuss Lotus Notes Client enhancements, such as new mail notifications (Sliders), improved sorting of e-mail subjects, various improvements to C&S and Managed Mail Replicas and more. For Lotus Domino administrators, we quickly help you justify your upgrade to 8.5.3 with details on things like the Purge Interval Replication Control (PIRC), the ability to now relocate FULL Text Indexes, the utilization of Machine Dependant Policies, Updall and Fixup task enhancements, overall serviceability improvements and more. The presentation is filled with FAQs everyone should be aware of as they plan their upgrades to Lotus Notes & Domino 8.5.3.

In this session, learn about the exciting new functions that can help you take advantage of Lotus Symphony. We cover the roadmap for Symphony and share some of the new features we are planning. We also talk about some exciting information around the Apache OpenOffice community and our contribution of the Symphony code. Hear what our plans are around working in this open source community and what this means for Lotus Symphony.

Server administrators have known about the benefits of virtualization for years, and recent advances in client-side virtualization mean that the time is now to consider increasing deployment within your environment. We share an overview of the client virtualization market, an overview of virtualization technologies and IBM Lotus Notes, and help you to plan and get the most out of your environment. We touch on the various types and solutions available from Citrix, KVM, Microsoft, VERDE and VMware. We also provide information on real-world deployments of Lotus Notes, recommended implementation strategies and give you an overview of how products in the Lotus portfolio fit into this space.

Personal Information Management (PIM) applications including mail, calendar, contact management, notebook, and tasks are the foundational components of the technology that power modern commerce. They are also the areas in which, through new improvements in IBM Lotus Notes Version 8.5.2, Lotus Notes Version 8.5.3 and beyond, that you can significantly improve end user productivity while simultaneously making users happy. In particular, we show you how to best transition Microsoft Outlook users to quickly learn (and maybe even love) all the features in Lotus Notes. We also cover how these enhancements can be easily deployed and shared with your user community.

Standardizing on browser clients presents numerous benefits to many organizations in terms of cost, maintenance, flexibility and ease of use, but making the transition requires thought & planning. In this session, we examine not only delivering a high function and high performance experience to your users but also how to easily extend your existing IBM Lotus Notes client based applications out to the world of browser users. We also examine what a transition to browser clients means to the configuration of your servers to help you promote a successful transition.

In this session we discuss plans to provide standards-based Single Sign-on (SSO). For IBM Lotus Domino web users, we cover how iNotes will take advantage of new SSO options, and the environment in which web users can achieve SSO with third party applications such as those from Google or Microsoft. We discuss the plans for Notes Federated Login, a new feature to provide an SSO experience for various Notes deployments, including Notes on Citrix. Come hear about a whole variety of SSO features on the 8.54 horizon and beyond!

In an ideal world, directory updates are batched, directory replication is off hours and administrators define policies to keep their directory as stable as possible to get the best performance from their IBM Lotus Domino servers. Today's economic, security and accountability demands have forced changes to these policies; but server performance has not become any less critical. This session examines the latest tools and techniques for minimizing directory performance issues in dynamic environments including: tuning Domino directories in dynamic environments, best practices for diagnosing and avoiding performance issues, and an examination of the directory performance related options available on each of the supported releases of Domino.

Come to this session to learn how you may be able to use the ID vault to simplify ID file management to lower your costs! We review what the IBM Lotus Notes ID vault is all about and what it can do for you, how to use it on-the-go with your mobile devices, as well as how to integrate the ID vault with your own program. We also discuss deployment and troubleshooting tips, which may be especially helpful if you are thinking about deploying or are in the process of deployment.

If your first introduction to performance tuning is in response to a server failure or performance problem, you've waited too long! Every deployment is different, and even routine upgrades or expansions can lead to trouble if you don't have a handle on how things are working NOW. This session introduces you to various performance tools, from IBM Lotus features to operating system tools and networking resources, and we help you build a "hot list" of measurements that directly influence your performance. You leave with a set of performance measurement tools and techniques that will enable you to take that all important first step toward consistent high performance.

In this session we cover how IBM Lotus Domino uses system and hardware resources and then work through various methods of defining sizing requirements. Since this is not an exact science, we discuss the items which should be examined to determine the footprint and resource usage of Domino on your hardware and whether its requirements are being appropriately handled. For example, we talk about how Domino is built to take advantage of multiple CPU cores/processors and how to determine if it is fully utilizing the CPU cores/processors.

Calendaring and scheduling is vital to your organization; understanding how it works will help you use it more effectively and productively. Take a deep-dive course with the expert on understanding the architecture of Busytime, Calendars, and Rooms and Resources. Also covered are configuring and trouble-shooting the systems and how to best make them work for you. With proper configuration and a good understanding of the systems and issues involved, admins and developers can come away better equipped to avoid problems. We cover system architectures and best practices for configuring and maintaining your systems. Next, we discuss topics that have been trending upwards in support calls and forum threads, to better address emerging areas of interest.

Learn about the exciting new features and capabilities in the latest version of IBM Lotus Notes Traveler in one, easy session! This session covers all of the latest updates for the Lotus Notes Traveler server and mobile device clients, as well as a sneak peek at hot requirements. Find out how Lotus Notes Traveler can support the mobile devices you are using. Get the details on how easy it is to connect mobile devices to your IBM Lotus Domino mail infrastructure and gain a detailed understanding of Lotus Notes Traveler's PIM, email features and security settings for managing them.

Struggling with how to provide remote access to your enterprise applications? Come learn how IBM Lotus Mobile Connect helps extend access to enterprise applications by providing security-rich VPN capabilities on a wide range of today's most popular mobile devices. The session will cover understanding client and clientless options, data encryption, authentication factors, single sign on, cross-network roaming, network optimization, how Lotus Mobile Connect can be used with IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Sametime, IBM Connections, and more!

IBM WebSphere Portal Version 7.0 and IBM Web Content Manager Version 7.0 contain new features and capabilities that continue to broaden their leadership in the portal marketplace. These features include significant enhancements to web content management, the addition of tagging and rating support, new operational models for lower cost of ownership and much more. Additionally, numerous enhancements have been made available since the release of Version 7.0. This presentation summarizes the new capabilities in Version 7.0 as well as cover the major enhancements made in web content management, mobile, analytics, IBM Connections integration, and other product integrations. This session assumes an understanding of WebSphere Portal Version 6.0.or 6.1.

It has never been easier to implement compelling Web 2.0 content-driven web experiences that meet the needs of your target audiences. IBM Web Experience NOW solutions provide comprehensive sets of templates that include rich web 2.0 content, collaboration, feeds, enterprise integration patterns, and more. Based on IBM best practice deployment patterns, the templates are pre-configured with role-based profiling, access to integrated applications and processes, as well as social media and services. IBM Web Experience NOW solutions enable the quick deployment of IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Web Content Manager, or IBM Forms for successful business solutions in 30 days or less, adding capabilities as you grow. Attend this session to understand the approach, capabilities, configuration and extensibility of the NOW solutions to grow your business and provide greater ROI.

In this demo extravaganza, IBM evangelists show you how to effectively work together as a team, generate ideas, find answers, manage content & information and get work done! Watch a powerful “Social Business Mashup” that monitors the social pulse of a company in real-time in addition to deep analytics into consumer insights. See how IBM WebSphere Portal, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Connections, IBM Sametime, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, IBM Forms, IBM Lotus Quickr, as well as Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange come together to make productivity a reality!

Success in web marketing requires the best techniques and technologies. Come to this session to learn how IBM enables you to create exceptional web experiences using marketing campaigns and landing pages, A/B testing, IP Location, personalized offers, search engine optimization, leveraging social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and many more of the top web marketing techniques. This session is a "live" demonstration of IBM Web Experience products and capabilities including IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager.

IBM Forms allows you to develop a complete data solution inside and outside IBM WebSphere Portal using only your web browser. You can collect data using visually compelling user experiences that can work in a multi-channel environment such as desktop and mobile, define multi-user workflow with actions, interact with back-end web services and provide reports on the data. See how this can be accomplished without having to write a single line of code or install any software on your desktop. This session shows you how IBM Forms enables business users to build effective, visually compelling forms and how easy it is to "wire it up" to your existing infrastructure. Additionally, we share use cases and innovative options available to extend IBM Forms to support varied business objectives.

The IBM Web Content Manager template catalog assets deliver out-of-the-box support for a broad set of reusable content-types. See how the latest innovations in "CTC 3" add new capabilities to rapidly develop feature-rich sites in minutes, using pre-built content, page and site templates that incorporate best practice designs. Through technical explanations and demonstrations, we share how site designers can use the palette of pre-configured portlets, or use existing assets, drop re-usable components on web pages for navigation, teasers, slideshows, carousels, and more. In addition, see how to monitor content effectiveness, and track promotional campaigns using the out-of-the-box analytics features in CTC 3 when integrated with web analytics solutions. See how to best apply these components to quickly deliver content-rich, interactive web sites that will attract and engage your audiences.

IBM Customer Experience Suite provides a rich platform for delivering engaging,personalized, and differentiated online experiences that meet the evolving needs of today's customers. In this session, we provide an overview of the features and capabilities of IBM Customer Experience Suite through live demonstrations. We cover how you can:

• Create engaging, content-rich websites and keep them current using the new Content Template Catalog plus integration with digital asset management solutions
• Utilize social services to drive innovation
• Leverage personalization to build experiences that feel custom fit for your users
• Use the new analytic overlays available in the V8 Beta to get in-context insights
• Deliver rich, multi-channel experiences using IBM Web Experience Factory

This session gives a comprehensive overview of IBM WebSphere Portal and its underlying architecture with a focus on platform operations capabilities. It provides insights on how the functions of WebSphere Portal can be integrated with other software assets and services outlined in the IBM Northstar vision to build the operational environment powering scalable and high performance web experience solutions. The session examines key operational characteristics such as high availability, disaster recovery, zero maintenance window, and approaches for operational efficiency. This session also covers a discussion on virtualization support and automated infrastructure setup, providing system managers and IT architects the information required to plan for successful and well managed web experience platforms.

Designed to reduce installation and configuration time, IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Web Content Manager Hypervisor editions are designed to run in server virtualized "private cloud" environments. This approach provides robust WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager features and drives rapid, deployments of web portal and web content manager-based applications. IBM Workload Deployer (IWD) manages products in cloud environments and dispenses patterns of virtual images into a pool of virtualized resources. We cover the architecture and fundamentals, including how a single machine can be carved into multiple smaller "virtual machines," each of which may run WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager instances. See a live demonstration to learn how quickly this environment supports deployment of a pre-configured, multi-node WebSphere Portal 7 cluster. Understand the operating benefits customers are achieving today leveraging these private cloud services.

IBM Sametime 8.5.2 can easily scale up for enterprises with thousands of users, but what if your company only has a few hundred users or fewer? Sametime in a Box is a fast way of implementing a fully functional IBM Sametime 8.5.2 environment. It can be used for Proof of Technology (POT) or Proof of Concept (POC) or as a server to support a few hundred users. Invented at IBM Denmark, Sametime in a Box is used for POT/POC for clients as a production server for SMB clients or as a starting point for enterprise implementation. Attend this session to learn hear how to prepare, install, and deploy IBM Sametime in one server capable of supporting a small or mid-sized company – or to work as an extranet server.

The IBM Sametime System Console is the new way to manage all Sametime 8.5.x components in a central point of administration. In this session, Sametime administrators are introduced to the powerful features of the new console and learn how to prepare for planning, deployment, and administration of Sametime 8.5.x. We also focus on the differences between the classic IBM Lotus Domino-based implementation and the new IBM WebSphere, IBM DB2, and LDAP environments.

The seamless integration of voice and video has become an essential part of the collaborative experience. IBM Sametime provides many voice and video capabilities out of the box along with a variety of protocols and interfaces that enable integration with equipment and services from other vendors. This session focuses on clearly describing all the options that are available to help you decide how to maximize your investment in this technology. This includes an overview of the components and services, a summary of the terminology, and an in-depth look at the different deployment options. What standards does Sametime support? What is the TCSPI? What's the difference between Sametime Unified Telephony and Sametime Unified Telephony Lite? Can Sametime voice and video be used in conjunction with video systems you already have? These and many other questions will be answered, helping you to make the best decisions.

The "click to everything" usage paradigm has helped position IBM Sametime as the most robust, flexible, and powerful platform for unified communications and collaboration in the marketplace. Our latest release is an important evolutionary step to strengthen Sametime's focus on mobility, on enriching social interaction patterns, on making it easier for customers and business partners to get started down the UC path, and in refining and improving the overall user experience. This session takes you through the new and powerful features available today in IBM Sametime. You will see it live on stage, and find out why Sametime is the platform for growth that can help you save money and enable your business to become a social business. We discuss features and functions as well as specific scenarios in which the new features can help improve your business processes. Last but not least, we discuss priorities and themes for future releases.

Today's workforce needs to be engaged, nimble, and connected. IBM Sametime Unified Telephony extends your real-time collaboration to rich voice communication leveraging your existing telephony systems and SIP infrastructure. In this session, learn how SUT can make your organization more agile with intelligent call routing, rich call control, and the new Sametime Unified Telephony Lite Client. Gain an understanding of the different options to decide what's right for you. We highlight how Sametime Unified Telephony can keep your workforce “at work,” even when they can't get “to work” as well as how Sametime Unified Telephony can help reduce costs when your users are on the road. Learn how new mobile clients allow you to initiate Sametime Unified Telephony calls directly from your smart phone or tablet. In today's world of bring your own device, Sametime Unified Telephony allows any device to be your office phone!

IP audio/video is becoming more and more pervasive. This pervasiveness enables users to have greater flexibility in how and where they can communicate either at home or on the road. Delivering these benefits, however, brings network architecture challenges with firewalls and NATs and also with bandwidth planning and use. This session discusses the most common deployments for IBM Sametime A/V, including internal and outside the firewall scenarios. It also provides detailed information on the different Sametime components and how to deploy them: where they should be located, which ports need to be used, how to connect the different components to each other, and more.

Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the center of our communications and collaboration world. At IBM, this means a transition to a "mobile first" product strategy -- a strategy that more than just accommodates mobile devices, but embraces them and leverages their unique capabilities. In this session, we examine the mobile capabilities of IBM Sametime, Sametime Meetings, and Sametime Unified Telephony across the various smart phones and tablets. We focus in particular on the recent announcements around Apple iPhone and iPad as well as Android capabilities and best practices for deployment and use. We also discuss how UC and social are converging particularly on mobile devices and provide a glimpse of how this will change the way we work in the future.

As the nature of business continues to change from traditional offices to mobile workers, the importance of providing a high quality UC solution to mobile and web users anytime anywhere is increasing. IBM Sametime 8.5.2 provided a major breakthrough to deploy a web-based video conferencing solution integrated within live meetings. This session aims to provide a deep dive into the Sametime web platform with various deployment architectures that require video conferencing planning for the firewall and external anonymous access. It covers a real use case of unified communication with the availability of web TCSPI and telephony integration into a web meeting and aims to provide TCSPI programmability details and a demo with an external telephony provider. The session provides a glimpse into what is coming in the ad hoc AV calls over web, which enable you to embed audio video capabilities and widgets/APIs with your home web applications.

This session helps you better understand the impact of two market trends that are increasingly shaping the collaboration landscape: the convergence of social business with unified communications and the rise of the cloud. The convergence of UC and social business, as illustrated by the growth of IBM Sametime and IBM Connections, is driven by a need for enhanced productivity and more efficient communications. A growing number of companies have also decided to complement their current infrastructure with cloud services. Join us to find out how recent announcements related to the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform can help combine the flexibility of on-premises deployments and the value of the cloud. However, with new options come new decisions. As capabilities and benefits vary between the different environments, we provide comparison points and guidance to select the optimum platform, be it LotusLive, on-premises, a shared private cloud, or a hybrid combination thereof.

IBM Sametime is a truly open platform and integrates with a number of vendor environments. In this session, you see how Sametime integrates in a Microsoft environment both from an infrastructure perspective with support for SPNEGO & ISA for example and an application perspective with out-of-the-box as well as custom-developed integration with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, and more. The session shows what the integration points are and how to enable, configure, and develop them. It’s an essential session for anyone who wants to deploy Sametime in a Microsoft infrastructure.

IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite, released in 2011, allows users with Sametime Connect client to easily make and receive calls from external endpoints, including virtual meeting rooms, telepresence room systems, video tabletops, and even phones – enabling an integrated environment for unified communications. Join this session to learn the best practices to unleash this powerful capability. We walk through several real-life scenarios to show the detail of the deployment and configuration to interact with external SIP servers and devices and include techniques to avoid common mistakes, especially in the presence of external TCSPI adapters and/ or Sametime Unified Telephony.

IBM Connections provides the platform of social tools required to transform your organization into a social business. Connections enables you to reach your customers and partners faster, drive innovation, share content and expertise, and complete work faster. In this session, learn what’s new in IBM Connections and how these features can help you become a social business. See firsthand how IBM Connections can work for you!

Collaboration happens for a purpose. Better business outcomes result when your employees, customers, and partners connect. IBM Connections brings social tools for collaboration into your work experiences every day. Whether working on an engineering document in an enterprise content management application, collaborating with partners, responding to customers through IBM WebSphere Portal, conducting business analytics with Cognos, responding to customers through IBM Sametime awareness, or doing all of these at the same time, learn how IBM Connections enables exceptional work experiences by bringing collaboration to your users in context of your business.

To become a successful social business, it’s imperative that you socialize existing business processes and not build yet another destination site for your end users. In this session, we talk about how other applications and business processes are building on IBM Connections. For example, we show how IBM Connections can socialize CRM systems and business process workflows. We also cover how IBM Connections is enabling such solutions with examples of how IBM Rational Jazz, and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence are integrating social features from IBM Connections and how IBM Cognos Consumer Insight and IBM Omnifind are leveraging IBM Connections APIs and data to deliver insight and to make data available to other business processes and applications.

This session provides an update on IBM Lotus Quickr for IBM Lotus Domino. First, we cover the current release of the product which introduced many new features such as calendar integration with Notes, lists, and end-to-end enterprise content management (ECM) integration. We also provide a live demonstration to support the current product. Finally, we cover what's coming in the next releases of IBM Lotus Quickr for Domino and show how Quickr is evolving as part of the IBM Project Vulcan vision and integrating with the rest of the social business portfolio.

IBM Connections communities offer a powerful way to drive results to your company's bottom line. IBM Connections can give your company an advantage by allowing you to set up different types of communities and to use those as entry points to become a social business. With IBM Connections, you can set up:

• Customer support communities to lower costs by turning your customers into your best support agents
• Collaboration and corporate communications communities to unleash the ideas and content of your biggest asset: your employees
• Social marketing communities to turn your customers into your biggest brand advocates and more.

This session covers the best ways to set up communities to achieve a variety of results whether it's more sales, improved support processes, or even to meet open government requirements.

You understand the benefits of social software and your organization is on the verge of becoming a social business. But your compliance officer is not willing to manage the risk of these new social capabilities without a data discovery and collection plan. In this session, learn about IBM Connections’ auditing and compliance infrastructure, the SPI we provide, and how it can be integrated with existing third-party solutions to collect and discover such data. We walk you through the capabilities of Vantage for IBM Connections and how the system works in real life and show you its abilities on sample cases.

In this session, we share some developing strategies at evolving a social business culture, increasing the adoption rate, and driving overall success to deliver business results. We describe where customers are on the maturity curve and what best practices they used to move down that curve to becoming a more social business. Learn from the experience of leaders in becoming a more social enterprise and hear what has been successful and what has been a challenge within their organizations.

The IBM Connections mobile application extends access to company data to employees who are on the go directly from their mobile device. In this session, we describe what's new in IBM Connections mobile and provide a preview of the new features being planned for 2012. Discover the upcoming features and functionality and take a deep dive look into how to deploy and manage IBM Connections mobile.

In this session, learn how you can apply the rich social collaboration capabilities of IBM Connections and exploit your existing investment in Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft desktop tools. Come see demonstrations of those Connections features surfaced in SharePoint as well as the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector for IBM Connections and other compelling desktop components. This session also covers best practices for installation and configuration of the Connections, SharePoint, and desktop components.

Have you and your teams ever worked in IBM Connections and successfully used all the features to collaborate and share knowledge, but wanted a more robust document management capability for your business-critical documents? IBM Connections now offers a choice with IBM Enterprise Content Management and IBM Lotus Quickr for IBM WebSphere Portal to offer a document library for your important documents with check-in/out, version control, security settings, and more. In this session, we talk about both document libraries and how you can use them to manage your documents inside IBM Connections communities.

Increasing demand for social software brings with it challenges from a corporate governance to a regulatory compliance and eDiscovery perspective. Whether it’s logging and archiving social content and activities, enforcing acceptable use policies, mitigating data leakage risks or the setting of ethical walls, the risks that you’ve addressed for years in an email and instant messaging environment are just as real for IBM Connections. This session reviews how Actiance and IBM Connections work together to provide a full suite of archiving and compliance capabilities to enable companies to extend their information governance policies to enable social collaboration adoption internally and externally.

Organizations around the world have deployed IBM Connections software in industries ranging from banking to automotive. In this session, learn the technical best practices for deployment and performance for IBM Connections software from the experts. This session answers questions about how to best deploy IBM Connections and everything you need to know for optimal performance. The session also covers deployment architecture strategies - when to use them and when to move to a different topology.

Get the latest word and understanding on the powerful features and functionality of reliable, security-rich LotusLive cloud services. Discover how LotusLive can help you improve productivity, deepen customer relationships, and generate new ideas in a single, security-rich place across firewalls—no matter the size of your business. We share important considerations and how to get started with the new self-service trials capability, including highlights of the new features in our most recent update to the service!

IBM LotusLive Notes integrates familiar security features from the IBM Lotus Domino product with the security architecture and philosophy of LotusLive. Learn how LotusLive Notes uses virtual Domino servers to extend your organizational security boundaries into the cloud.

Is your organization considering a move to the cloud and yet wondering how that impacts the management of your on-premises environment today? Are you puzzled by the rhetoric surrounding a transition to the IBM LotusLive Notes service and exactly how administration is performed in either a fully hosted or a hybrid environment? We can help! Attend this session and we'll demystify the terminology and technology as well as clarify the implications to your IT organization in choosing the uniquely innovative LotusLive Notes service!

Regardless of the size of your organization, extending your on-premises IBM Lotus Notes and Domino environment into the IBM LotusLive cloud is a uniquely innovative proposition! The LotusLive Notes hybrid configuration is the key capability that allows you to integrate delivery models while protecting your existing investment and allowing you to recognize the advantages of cloud-based messaging. This session helps you understand the details of the hybrid architecture, considerations for its utilization, and how to make the best choices for leveraging the power of this unique configuration option.

Take an in-depth tour of IBM LotusLive, the IBM social business collaboration platform. In this session, we demonstrate the latest features and the most compelling functionality and show real business value through use cases and business partner integrated services. We show you how LotusLive can help transform your business into a social business in the cloud. See examples of how businesses such as the Canadian Council of Comptrollers, the Schulich School of Business, and others are leveraging LotusLive to be more connected to their franchises and to work more closely with partners and vendors to complete projects more efficiently to derive real business value. We show you how colleagues participate in communities of interest, collaborate between companies, self discover expertise and topic matter to solve problems, and apply business rules such as information management controls to the LotusLive environment. Join us in this demonstration packed in-depth tour of LotusLive.

IBM LotusLive provides a multi-tenant cloud platform for a familiar array of Lotus collaboration features and offerings. Learn about the LotusLive security architecture and philosophy and the administrative and collaboration security features that support it. We emphasize enterprise and hybrid security features, including single sign on, user account management, external application integration, and audit events. Come learn about how control and oversight works within your company in the cloud and how social business collaboration is supported across that boundary.

Businesses are faced with enormous pressure to accelerate time to market for new products and services while controlling costs. Success requires rapid access to IT infrastructure, storage, and virtual server environments. IT resource provisioning should be dynamic and self service for application development teams. Platforms are required that enable organizations to rapidly develop, deploy, manage, and integrate enterprise applications for their own use or for delivery as SaaS. Learn about the advanced IaaS and PaaS cloud platforms with IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise +, and IBM SmartCloud Application Services. Built on the SmartCloud architecture, these security-rich, agile, pay-as-you-go environments drive faster time to value and market differentiation. With multiple licensing options for IBM Lotus Domino along with IBM Collaboration QuickStart for Social Business and more, SmartCloud represents a key first step for you on your cloud computing journey.

As a leader in government, do you see opportunities for putting collaboration workloads such as email, internal networking tools, and office automation in the cloud? How can you capture the benefits of cloud, while also fostering transparency and increasing productivity through the use of social software? What challenges remain in moving forward with a secure and cost-effective cloud solution for your agency? Learn how IBM is helping to overcome barriers to cloud adoption for collaboration services with our new IBM SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government offering.

100 years of innovation has put IBM at the forefront of collaborative social business. With over 450,000 employees worldwide, IBM experiences the same challenges as the rest of the world and leverages the full portfolio of IBM Collaboration Solutions to remain agile in an ever-changing world. Come hear how IBM has put together a best-of-breed collaboration infrastructure, including IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, IBM Sametime, IBM Connections, and IBM Lotus Quickr, to address the many and varied needs of such a diverse user base. With special attention on Notes, Connections, and their integration, we explore how IBM sets the standard for enterprise collaboration as we begin our second century.

How can businesses use social media to connect with their customers to reach new audiences, increase user engagement and loyalty, improve partner relationships, and increase revenue? IBM has developed a strong social media marketing practice across its Software Group brand marketing teams that help to produce valuable insights that in turn help to target areas for demand generation. This session discusses an IBM case study about how to get started, what to consider in launching a program, how to build advocacy, and how to manage communities and measure success. Learn how IBM has applied predictive analytics to address the social media monitoring business challenge with social media analytics. This buzz factor can have an important impact on influencers, search and content optimization, and the growth in business and revenue. We discuss the ways to merge social software and analytic tools to deliver a robust marketing management system that increases the bottom line.

Increasing usage of smart phones and tablets in the consumer space is putting pressure on CIOs to adopt more flexible workplace strategies. Come learn how to embrace the new workplace and unleash the power of enterprise mobility to improve productivity, reduce response time, and increase employee satisfaction.

Today’s IT landscape is evolving rapidly and new measures of performance mean businesses need to deliver services faster with higher quality and with superior economics. Power Systems provide servers and software that are the foundation for a collaboration services infrastructure. In this session, we review client case studies to learn how Power Systems has helped businesses manage rapid change, reduce business risk, and meet higher service levels – all in the most cost-effective manner.