JumpStarts & Master Classes

Been wondering what the buzz is about for Domino XPages? Ready to build your first application? This session, designed for the XPages beginner, demonstrates how to take a typical Notes application and convert it to XPages. Learn how to create an XPage, use the View control to display Domino views, and build XPages for the purpose of creating, viewing, and editing Notes documents. See advanced techniques with Xpages, such as charting, displaying a view and the selected document on the same page, and more! This session concludes by discussing what skills you need to become an XPages developer.

I know it and you know it. You should have learned Java last week, last month, or last year. But you didn't. And now you need it. Today, tomorrow and every day after that. So come to this session to get tested and proven techniques that not only show you how to learn Java, but also give you the roadmap and tools to do it. See how Java is now integrated into the Domino Designer client and how to configure it as the only Java development tool you need. See how Java is used in Agents, Servlets, Domino Xpages, and stand alone applications. Add Java as a tool in your development toolbox to take your skills to the next level.

You may be a pro at administering a Domino server, but maybe you don't quite understand everything that's working behind the scenes. Learn the no-fuss, no-frills, simple explanations of the most common Domino concepts. Find out exactly how these concepts work and how to apply your knowledge to avoid problems and improve performance. Learn how stuff works: Reader fields, replication and cluster replication, mail routing including SMTP, the secrets of ACLs, ID file details, Adminp, busytime, cross-certification, re-certifying, Domino domains, transaction logging, view indexes, and more. We explain the entire server architecture of Domino and key terminology. Learning the entire concept of all that's in Domino makes you a better troubleshooter, a faster problem-solver, and an all-around great admin!

Come learn from the experts how to successfully mobilize an enterprise organization with Lotus Notes Traveler. Discuss best practices for planning and deployment, meeting organizational security requirements and how Notes Traveler fits into your infrastructure. We share which IBM Traveler for LotusLive Notes options are available, provide guidance on mobile device selection, and discuss how mobile devices can be easily and efficiently configured and deployed to your users. Learn how to diagnose problems and get back on track quickly if something goes wrong. We include information on capacity planning, performance tuning, high availability, and how to monitor your server to make sure it is running smoothly.

Have you heard any of the following myths about Lotus Symphony? I can't use Symphony because my customers send me Microsoft Office files. Symphony won't organize and summarize my data with a pivot table. I need to track changes in my documents with multiple users, so Symphony won't fit my needs. Myths, all myths. In this session, we bust some of the most common and persistent myths about IBM Lotus Symphony and show you how it can easily handle your most challenging needs for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

IBM Sametime, the industry's premier online collaboration system, now offers more options to your enterprise than ever before! Its highly modular design allows you to pick and choose which features you deliver to your audience and when. This session gives you exactly what you need to know about each component of Sametime 8.5.2, so that you can start planning your deployment now! We talk about audio/video, integration with third-party applications, extranet deployments, and much, much more.

For many Sametime administrators who know the former Sametime Server on Domino, the new IBM WebSphere technology may leave you guessing. While you may think this new platform is completely different, there are actually many similarities that make it easier for a Domino administrator to understand this new technology. Attend this session and walk away being confident that you can manage WebSphere and DB2 for your Sametime environment.

Whether your corporate data resides in a human resources database, an enterprise directory, a Domino deployment, or a combination of any or all of these sources, IBM Connections Profiles can pull together data from near and far and be the face of your employees. We show the simplest way to load a Profiles database with corporate information using the Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) solution shipped with IBM Connections 3.0.1. We then take it to the next level and explore the many customization options available to support a wide variety of corporate topologies. From custom lifecycle logic to alternate source repositories, programming with the TDI solution can pull all your data into a single source -- Profiles, the focal point of IBM Connections.

IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager software enables organizations to deliver rich, engaging, social experiences that integrate across content, processes, and applications while reducing IT costs. During this introductory session, we cover the platform foundation components, extension points, and latest updates, including new social features, page and theme design, mobile updates, enhanced analytics support, web publishing enhancements, deployment examples, and more. Attend this session to understand the foundational components and how best to apply them to build dynamic, vibrant, and scalable web experiences that delight your audiences.

The IBM Social Business Toolkit introduces an expanded set of techniques and tools to make your applications social. Learn the capabilities available to create custom applications for your business that deliver an exceptional web experience. Add collaboration to your applications through the use of open standards, such as Activity Streams and Open Social, and learn to capture these technologies in a repeatable method for use across multiple applications.

You've had the question, or no doubt you will, "what are we doing with cloud?" Hear the steps that your organization can take today to prepare for use of cloud delivered software. This includes:

• Directory and user management strategies
• Planning for corporate data governance policies and compliance issues associated with moving data to the cloud
• Approaches for authentication and network assessments so your organization can leverage network acceleration approaches frequently used to deliver software as a service (SaaS)

In addition, we go through how to extend cloud offerings. Cloud offerings are typically extended in very different ways to on premise applications. Learn the technologies that your enterprise should be adopting now so that it can better integrate with cloud offerings (OAuth and REST).

All customers contemplating a move to the cloud have to plan and prepare their infrastructure for adoption of the service. LotusLive Notes is unique in its ability to be configured as either entirely stand-alone or integrated with your existing on premises Lotus Domino infrastructure. This session describes the available approaches to LotusLive Notes deployment for both of these implementation scenarios, how to evaluate which one best meets your business needs and for each one, discusses the specific planning and preparation that must be done to foster a successful deployment.

IBM Docs is being developed as the online social collaborative productivity tool that will be available in LotusLive and planned to be available both on premises and in a private cloud. Featuring three editors: Document, Spreadsheet, and Presentation, users can accomplish their routine document related work online without installing any application footprint on the client side. In addition to supporting users’ composition of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the traditional way, IBM Docs will allow users to work with their colleagues on the same document collaboratively and simultaneously. Join us at this hands-on session where you'll learn about the rich capabilities in IBM Docs, how to leverage the social features to work in a more collaborative and efficient way, and understand the integrations with IBM Connections, Lotus iNotes, and LotusLive.

The Domino XPages Extensibility API introduced in Lotus Domino 8.5.2 presents application developers with the opportunity to create native XPages controls. With release 8.5.3 of Domino Designer, developers can now provide native design time tooling for their extension controls. Come join us as we demonstrate how developers can provide an end to end experience from creating XPage native controls to Domino Designer palette drop actions to properties panels and design time visualizations for XPage controls.

Themes are one of the most powerful and possibly least understood elements of Domino XPages application development. The XPages Themes capability gives you unprecedented control over the look and feel of your applications at both a local and global level. Using Themes, you can create a common appearance shared by all your company’s XPages applications while still maintaining design flexibility at the individual application level. Come to this session to learn how to implement and leverage XPages Themes in your application development projects.

With so many sophisticated layers of Domino security, are you sure you are using the right ones in the right way to provide the best fit with the least pain in your company? Security risks are changing and evolving all the time. With the increase in socially aware applications sharing data across boundaries, it is more important than ever to have your environment locked down tight. In this Master Class, we use real world examples of security challenges and take you through how to spot potential problems, how to identify their scale and risk, and how to avoid them being exploited. We introduce you to some of an admin’s nemeses, including The Helpful Helpdesk Support Person, The Over-Socializer, The Bitter Ex-Admin, The Clumsy Script Kiddie, and more.

Integration has remained a key skill in the Domino Developer toolkit since 1994. 18 years later, the Integration skillset comes to a head with the ideals of Social Business: modern web interface, social interactions, and mobile delivery. This session builds on top of the integration sessions of the past and highlights the master skills needed today. We show how to integrate Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Domino XPages, and LotusLive applications with the tools on your users' machines spanning Microsoft Office, Microsoft .NET custom applications, Lotus Symphony, and more. We examine how the ODF and OOXML standards are changing the integration story and bring integration to the web and mobile devices. Social interactions drive applications in a social business world, and we highlight how they fit when multiple integrations take place. This session focuses on how to build advanced integration that drives innovation and provides the best experience for your users.

IBM Connections provides administration with the ability to define many roles for each application. Each of those user roles has various management capabilities to manage the content and process. In this session, we deep dive into these roles and how to leverage the different roles to manage Connections more effectively.