Comments on: Lotusphere Q&A: Part I – Connections http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/ because technology is just another ecosystem Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tecosystems » More Than an Enterprise Facebook: Project Vulcan and Analytical Collaboration http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-587591 tecosystems » More Than an Enterprise Facebook: Project Vulcan and Analytical Collaboration Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:40:16 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-587591 [...] taking their cues from the web. The first product manifestations of this design evolution were Connections and [...] [...] taking their cues from the web. The first product manifestations of this design evolution were Connections and [...]

]]> By: tecosystems » Do Office and OpenOffice Matter? http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-21742 tecosystems » Do Office and OpenOffice Matter? Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:18:45 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-21742 [...] But what about those without significant investments in the rich client office suite market? Much has been made in recent weeks and months of the lessons the enterprise is learning from the Web. From IBM’s new Connections offering to Suite Two, even stodgy IT buyers are becoming increasingly open minded about web applications. From CRM to email to ERP to portals to systems management, what was once rich client is now increasingly web. Why should content authoring be any different? [...] [...] But what about those without significant investments in the rich client office suite market? Much has been made in recent weeks and months of the lessons the enterprise is learning from the Web. From IBM’s new Connections offering to Suite Two, even stodgy IT buyers are becoming increasingly open minded about web applications. From CRM to email to ERP to portals to systems management, what was once rich client is now increasingly web. Why should content authoring be any different? [...]

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » On Enterprise Social Analytics: hat tip John Simonds http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-13448 James Governor’s Monkchips » On Enterprise Social Analytics: hat tip John Simonds Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:05:35 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-13448 [...] John is a smart guy, and in this post, Social Computing In The Enterprise, he briefly mentions what is going to be a key market over the next few years. It just doesn’t have a name yet. In describing IBM’s new enterprise social software (that last one’s a bonus link from Burton’s Mike Gotta) tooling John makes a comparison against the del.icio.us, MySpace and Flickrs of this world: It is easy to download the social tools, but with easy usually comes limited functionality or single purpose. For example, while you can share your del.icio.us links as many do publicly, the trends across a selected group(s) such as an organization are not trendable. Analysis of trends or the combination of information gathering within a company can help in identifying information and interests. [...] [...] John is a smart guy, and in this post, Social Computing In The Enterprise, he briefly mentions what is going to be a key market over the next few years. It just doesn’t have a name yet. In describing IBM’s new enterprise social software (that last one’s a bonus link from Burton’s Mike Gotta) tooling John makes a comparison against the del.icio.us, MySpace and Flickrs of this world: It is easy to download the social tools, but with easy usually comes limited functionality or single purpose. For example, while you can share your del.icio.us links as many do publicly, the trends across a selected group(s) such as an organization are not trendable. Analysis of trends or the combination of information gathering within a company can help in identifying information and interests. [...]

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » IBM: the world’s biggest enterprise social software rollout http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-13005 James Governor’s Monkchips » IBM: the world’s biggest enterprise social software rollout Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:09:08 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-13005 [...] RedMonk tends to agitate for IBM to hurry up and gets its new social software out from behind the firewall, which its finally doing as per our recent Lotus coverage here, here, and here. But there is another way of looking at this, which James Snell talks to. Its fashionable for the blogerati to laugh at “enterprisey” but funnily enough most enterprises don’t. IBM seems to have a lead over its enterprise competitors, including Microsoft (Sharepoint is not the answer to all social software questions, as Burton Group and RedMonk agree), for the simple reason that IBM’s social software project was so big, and so managed (in terms of audit trails, identity, directory expertise management and so on. IBM’s social software is about managed, rather than unmanaged spaces, and that makes it powerful). I still don’t know why Sun doesn’t want to make money from Roller, but if IBM want to wear the t-shirt… This is from snellspace. Today IBM has what may very well be the largest corporate social networking environment in the world. We don’t know that for sure because there’s not a lot of great information out there about how many folks are actually using these technologies within the firewall. Here are some numbers: Our BlogCentral environment supports 25k+ registered users with over 3k+ “active” blogs. There are over 100k posts and comments with over 10k+ unique tags. Our dogear server has over 200k+ distinct bookmarks to resources both inside and outside the firewall and is generally more reliable at providing quick access to important resources than our Intranet search servers. Our activities server has over 11k activities with 69k+ entries and has 35k+ registered users. Generally impressive statistics, especially if you consider that use of the blogs, bookmarks and activities servers is entirely optional and there is no corporate mandate that Thou Shalt Blog or Thou Shalt Bookmark. Instead, a small group of people heard about it and started using it; they told some others about it and they started using ti; then they told some others about it and they started using it… and it evolved from there. And it’s not just bookmarking, blogging, activities, and so on. We’re also podcasting, collaborating through wikis, tagging pretty much everything in sight, participating in internal “open source” projects, organizing “hackdays” and generally just having a lot of fun. Thing is, I’m not sure that anyone has really figured out a way of measuring the tangible impact the use of these technologies has on our bottom line. What we do know is that the employees who are making use of them have generally found them to be far more useful than anything that’s come before and that there is genuine excitement about the new tools. [...] [...] RedMonk tends to agitate for IBM to hurry up and gets its new social software out from behind the firewall, which its finally doing as per our recent Lotus coverage here, here, and here. But there is another way of looking at this, which James Snell talks to. Its fashionable for the blogerati to laugh at “enterprisey” but funnily enough most enterprises don’t. IBM seems to have a lead over its enterprise competitors, including Microsoft (Sharepoint is not the answer to all social software questions, as Burton Group and RedMonk agree), for the simple reason that IBM’s social software project was so big, and so managed (in terms of audit trails, identity, directory expertise management and so on. IBM’s social software is about managed, rather than unmanaged spaces, and that makes it powerful). I still don’t know why Sun doesn’t want to make money from Roller, but if IBM want to wear the t-shirt… This is from snellspace. Today IBM has what may very well be the largest corporate social networking environment in the world. We don’t know that for sure because there’s not a lot of great information out there about how many folks are actually using these technologies within the firewall. Here are some numbers: Our BlogCentral environment supports 25k+ registered users with over 3k+ “active” blogs. There are over 100k posts and comments with over 10k+ unique tags. Our dogear server has over 200k+ distinct bookmarks to resources both inside and outside the firewall and is generally more reliable at providing quick access to important resources than our Intranet search servers. Our activities server has over 11k activities with 69k+ entries and has 35k+ registered users. Generally impressive statistics, especially if you consider that use of the blogs, bookmarks and activities servers is entirely optional and there is no corporate mandate that Thou Shalt Blog or Thou Shalt Bookmark. Instead, a small group of people heard about it and started using it; they told some others about it and they started using ti; then they told some others about it and they started using it… and it evolved from there. And it’s not just bookmarking, blogging, activities, and so on. We’re also podcasting, collaborating through wikis, tagging pretty much everything in sight, participating in internal “open source” projects, organizing “hackdays” and generally just having a lot of fun. Thing is, I’m not sure that anyone has really figured out a way of measuring the tangible impact the use of these technologies has on our bottom line. What we do know is that the employees who are making use of them have generally found them to be far more useful than anything that’s come before and that there is genuine excitement about the new tools. [...]

]]> By: The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » Lotus Connections and the Urge to Surge http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-12443 The FASTForward Blog » Blog Archive » Lotus Connections and the Urge to Surge Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:22:54 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-12443 [...] On Monday, IBM Lotus launched a huge surge into social networking with Lotus Connections, which wraps five social networking technologies up into one integrated package, offering enterprise customers a menu of social software tools:  employee blogs, employee profiles, activities or projects, communities of like minded employees, and a bookmarks function for sharing information such as websites and documents.  As Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk explains it: It’s a couple of technologies most of us know (and love) - blogs, bookmarks, and FaceBook style profiles - integrated with preexisting offerings like Sametime and Activity Explorer. In other words, it’s like a local version of del.icio.us that’s preintegrated with WordPress, Jabber, FaceBook and a Sharepoint-ish project/team document system. A bit difficult to explain, in other words, but quite compelling once you’ve seen it in action. [...] [...] On Monday, IBM Lotus launched a huge surge into social networking with Lotus Connections, which wraps five social networking technologies up into one integrated package, offering enterprise customers a menu of social software tools:  employee blogs, employee profiles, activities or projects, communities of like minded employees, and a bookmarks function for sharing information such as websites and documents.  As Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk explains it: It’s a couple of technologies most of us know (and love) – blogs, bookmarks, and FaceBook style profiles – integrated with preexisting offerings like Sametime and Activity Explorer. In other words, it’s like a local version of del.icio.us that’s preintegrated with WordPress, Jabber, FaceBook and a Sharepoint-ish project/team document system. A bit difficult to explain, in other words, but quite compelling once you’ve seen it in action. [...]

]]> By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » Lotus Connections (formally “Project Ventura”) http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-12435 People Over Process » Blog Archive » Lotus Connections (formally “Project Ventura”) Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:59:38 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-12435 [...] Blogs [Roller] - for blogging. One question is how much IBM’s extended roller vs. used it out of the box. As ever, Sun should be asking themselves why IBM’s the one who’s figuring out selling roller “first.” [Steve further drives this point home in his first post on Connections.] [...] [...] Blogs [Roller] – for blogging. One question is how much IBM’s extended roller vs. used it out of the box. As ever, Sun should be asking themselves why IBM’s the one who’s figuring out selling roller “first.” [Steve further drives this point home in his first post on Connections.] [...]

]]> By: tecosystems » Biggest Lotusphere Disappointment: Where’s Asterisk? http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-12427 tecosystems » Biggest Lotusphere Disappointment: Where’s Asterisk? Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:35:33 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-12427 [...] My previous two missives concerning Lotusphere served mostly as summaries of the event’s news, along with some impressions favorable and some not. One subject not tackled that I did want to make it a point to highlight was the disappointing absence from the show: Asterisk/Digium (here’s some background on Asterisk). [...] [...] My previous two missives concerning Lotusphere served mostly as summaries of the event’s news, along with some impressions favorable and some not. One subject not tackled that I did want to make it a point to highlight was the disappointing absence from the show: Asterisk/Digium (here’s some background on Asterisk). [...]

]]> By: Tim Finley http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-12422 Tim Finley Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:41:25 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-12422 Danno: In addition to the comments James said about being remote, Connections helps you find information/resources _without_ having to know the right person to talk to. This is most evident with the Dogear (bookmarks) component which allows you quickly search/filter the great resources experts within your organization have already found. If you have not already done this type of "bookmark stalking" in del.icio.us, I highly recommend it. Not only are the results sometimes better than you'd get from a google search, you also are discovering valuable people at the same time. I have become a huge fan of our internal Dogear deployment and through using it I've discovered many very smart IBMers that do my bookmarking for me. :) The other thing I'd like to point out is that integration between Connection components really make the sum greater than the parts. Everywhere in Connections you see a user name you can get the user's business card, which provides quick access to the user's profile information as well as links to his/her blog, bookmarks, communities, and activities shared with you. Doing things like navigating profiles by the web2.0 tag to find web developers, then checking their bookmarks, and then going to the blog of a particular wed developer you find interesting is a seemless experience. Danno: In addition to the comments James said about being remote, Connections helps you find information/resources _without_ having to know the right person to talk to. This is most evident with the Dogear (bookmarks) component which allows you quickly search/filter the great resources experts within your organization have already found. If you have not already done this type of “bookmark stalking” in del.icio.us, I highly recommend it. Not only are the results sometimes better than you’d get from a google search, you also are discovering valuable people at the same time. I have become a huge fan of our internal Dogear deployment and through using it I’ve discovered many very smart IBMers that do my bookmarking for me. :)

The other thing I’d like to point out is that integration between Connection components really make the sum greater than the parts. Everywhere in Connections you see a user name you can get the user’s business card, which provides quick access to the user’s profile information as well as links to his/her blog, bookmarks, communities, and activities shared with you. Doing things like navigating profiles by the web2.0 tag to find web developers, then checking their bookmarks, and then going to the blog of a particular wed developer you find interesting is a seemless experience.

]]> By: Andrei Filimonov http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-12341 Andrei Filimonov Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:20:13 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-12341 How well components are integrated? From my experience integration is not the strongest part of the Roller component. E.g. it is not possible to use external content repsoitories to store blogs, LDAP integration is limited. Another question on Roller. What is going to happen after Connections become generally available? Roller is incubation stage now and is seeing a lot of development activity. How this activity is related to Connections upcoming release? Will future releases of Roll be included into Connections? How well components are integrated? From my experience integration is not the strongest part of the Roller component. E.g. it is not possible to use external content repsoitories to store blogs, LDAP integration is limited.

Another question on Roller. What is going to happen after Connections become generally available? Roller is incubation stage now and is seeing a lot of development activity. How this activity is related to Connections upcoming release? Will future releases of Roll be included into Connections?

]]> By: tecosystems » Lotusphere Q&A: Part II, Connections, Quickr and More http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/comment-page-1/#comment-12320 tecosystems » Lotusphere Q&A: Part II, Connections, Quickr and More Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:39:10 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/22/lotusphere_1/#comment-12320 [...] Picking up from where we left off yesterday, let’s jump right into part II of our Lotusphere Q&A. With the volume of news announced, there’s much to parse and more on the way so it would not do to get behind. [...] [...] Picking up from where we left off yesterday, let’s jump right into part II of our Lotusphere Q&A. With the volume of news announced, there’s much to parse and more on the way so it would not do to get behind. [...]

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