Lotusphere Comes to You 2009

Session leads: Pete Hampton, Competitive Technical Specialist, Lotus Software, (UK & Ireland) and Ray Davies, Technical Lotus Sales Specialist

Working together just got easier with new online collaborative services from IBM Lotus Software. We have developed an integrated set of collaborative and social networking services that empowers you to work together quickly and easily online. Featuring on-ramps from existing Lotus products and third party applications as well as new online services, see how these Lotus solutions will help you extend and enhance your existing investment and your business reach. Experience what's possible with cloud services from Lotus. Discover where businesses will come to work!

Session lead: Brendan Tutt, Portal & Social Networking Business Leader (UK & Ireland)

To many Social Software equals Facebook, and many companies ban it! For us Social Software equals skills search, re-use of assets, knowledge sharing and increased productivity. Lotus Connections has been helping us and many companies for over two years. Now with Connections 2.5 we have taken the integration of Social Networking with business a step further. In this session we will look at the phenomenon of Social Networking for business and see what is around the corner.

Session lead: Brendan Buckingham, Lotus Technical Sales Manager

In 2009 you can immediately reduce IT and travel costs, while simultaneously improving communications and collaboration with office, remote and mobile co-workers, customers, partners, and extended networks. It's time to move beyond just IM and unleash the platform power of IBM Lotus Sametime to add communications capabilities to all aspects of your business life, and easily find, reach and collaborate with anyone, anywhere, in ways you never thought possible

Session lead: Darren Adams, Messaging and Collaboration Business Leader (UK & Ireland)

E-mail, file sharing, collaborative team spaces, instant messaging, communities of interest, shared bookmarks, mobile solutions? You may have some (or all) of these capabilities but how do the pieces fit together and help knowledge workers become more effective? Join us for a collaborative journey and see how Lotus solutions can benefit in sharing information and working with colleagues (and people you may not yet know).

Session lead: Chris Freestone, Senior Lotus Technical Specialist

Cost reduction is more than ever playing a key part in day to day business, with development budgets favouring mission critical projects or those that can be delivered through more cost efficient means, leaving most to be shelved until next year. But this doesn't mean that your business requirements should take a back seat. We will show you how to get your shelved projects up and running faster by demonstrating how XPages can deliver your Domino applications to the web with unprecedented ease, how IBM Mashup Center can bring business oriented self service application creation to the centre stage, and how Sametime can provide contextual collaboration to your data.

Session leads: Pete Hampton, Competitive Technical Specialist, Lotus Software,(UK & Ireland) and Ray Davies, Technical Lotus Sales Specialist

Come and see how the Lotus portfolio can bring greater business value to your extended userbase regardless of platform. See demonstrations detailing the use of Lotus Symphony productivity tools, Sametime instant messaging, IBM Lotus Quickr and IBM Lotus Connections on Linux & Apple OSX as well as Windows and understand how embracing alternatives can enhance your bottom line.