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Corrected Link: The Value of Notes/Domino and Platform Savings
Posted in Education, Lotus Notes Domino on January 6, 2011
Value of Notes/Domino
TCO with N/D 8.5 has decreased costs by 30% or more with sophisticated compression technologies, administration improvements, and End User functions. Consulting and free tools are provided to help customers determine their own potential For example, Forrester Consulting calculated a three-year, risk-adjusted ROI of 147% for an organization with a payback period within twelve months of deployment. See link below….
- Free and embedded functions within the Notes/Domino platform providing more value for your IT staff and End Users
- Embedded Instant Messaging
- File Sharing and social networking
- Full featured Browser based email
- Push to Mobile devices (including Blackberry, iPhone/pad/pod, Windows Mobile, and Android)
- VPN connectivity
- Web 2.0 and client-based Designer tools
- Personal Open Document Format Productivity – documents, spreadsheets, & presentations
- Personal secure (drag and drop) document repository for team sharing
- APIs to key industry tools – SAP, Siebel
Platform Savings
TCO of update to 8.5.x is less than 12 months, 30% fewer servers, 40% to 60% in disk savings, >50% I/O consumption, ~50% in Network bandwidth and extensive integration via Eclipse & Web Services
Free – SW Entitlements with Notes & Domino (live links here)
- Lotus Symphony , can save $300 per user
- Lotus Traveler, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile
- IBM Lotus Sametime Entry software
- IBM Lotus Domino Designer software
- IBM Lotus Mobile Connect (VPN) client software
Why IBM for your integrated desktop client
Easy to use, integrated desktop client that brings you the people, business applications, and information you need from across the enterprise and the Internet to help you get your work done fast.
Learning resources
- Demo: See Lotus Notes and Domino 8 now
- New to Lotus Notes and Domino? Share this brochure with your IT executives (New and updated). (1.22MB)Learn how integrating
- LotusLive Notes messaging in the cloud with Lotus Notes and Domino software can help dramatically reduce infrastructure costs (246KB)
- Wiki and Forums
Customer References
TCO Tools
We have a few tools that can help the customers realize cost savings. If you would like assistance with any of these tools, IBM can help you plan for your upgrade, cost out the savings as well as assist in your own value proposition for your upgrade. If you do not know your IBM Lotus Rep or technical lead – please contact me directly and I would be glad to get someone to assist you immediately!
EVENT: November 17, 2010 Time: 9am PST – Instantly Convert Your Apps to XPages with New “Transformer Technology”
Posted in Lotus Notes Domino, Education on November 3, 2010

Date: November 17, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern U.S. Time
Hosted by LotusUserGroup.org, Sponsored by GROUP
REGISTER TODAY!!!
XPages technology enhances your ability to create world-class Notes and Domino applications and leverage your Domino investments to deliver modern, scalable, high performance Web 2.0 style applications. But, until now, learning a new development skill and applying it to a drawn-out and cumbersome platform migration has been a task many developers have been putting off. Fortunately, this presentation will introduce you to a new tool that lets you modernize your legacy Notes applications by converting them to XPages with GROUP’s revolutionary tool, Evolution Transformer.
Join Jennifer Meade, CTO at GROUP, and Nathan Freeman, GROUP Frameworks VP Research & Development, for this brief online presentation and learn the ins and outs of this new tool that transforms Domino applications with XPages for you:
- Learn how to rapidly modernize legacy Domino applications at half the cost of moving to another platform
- Extend applications to private and public clouds with no lock-in
- Leverage existing infrastructures (hardware, middleware, directory services)
- Standardize application appearance across your organization
- See a demonstration of the Evolution Transformer solution in action
Don’t miss the presentation that will show you the easiest and best way to leverage your Domino investments by converting to XPages and delivering modern, scalable, high performance Web 2.0 style applications with ease.
This presentation is free to LotusUserGroup.org members but requires pre-registration.
REGISTER TODAY!!!
This Virtual User Group Meeting is hosted by LotusUserGroup.org.
Hands On Event: LotusLive Costa Mesa – Nov 2nd and SF – Nov 9th
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2010
click for lotuslive seminar invitation – nov2010
Communicate and Collaborate in the cloud with the IBM LotusLive online collaboration suite
Nov 2, 2010
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Nov 9, 2010
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Join us to get the details on how cloud-based solutions from IBM can help your organization work smarter and reduce costs.
Lunch will be provided.
You’re invited to attend this FREE seminar to discuss IBM’s cloud initiatives for collaboration. Cloud computing platforms provide flexibility, speed and cost reductions. IBM’s suite of collaboration tools strengthen communications internally and externally, while aiding in the coordination of resources for teams and projects.
E-mail Collaboration Web Conferencing
- LotusLive Engage
- LotusLive Connections
- LotusLive Meetings
- LotusLive Events
Learn how IBM LotusLive services can help you:
- Host online meetings, build communities, communicate in real time and share files in one simple place, virtually anytime, from anywhere
- Provide collaboration solutions in a security-rich environment without the hassles of firewalls
- Deliver these services through an online delivery model, reducing cost and startup time, eliminating complicated installations and reducing
- the need for on site IT support
- IBM offers this solution for organizations who want to migrate to a fullcloud based collaboration platform, and for firms who need a hybrid cloud environment
At this session, you will get the opportunity to have hands-on experience with the IBM software suite. We will also show the newly unveiled LotusLive Notes and the latest enhancement to IBM LotusLive.
For companies evaluating a hybrid model, we will show how easy it is to integrate your on-premises Domino infrastructure with LotusLive. This
capability puts LotusLive Notes way ahead of the alternatives from both Google and Microsoft.
Open Mic Invitation: Customizing the Notes Install Kit – July 21, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2010
Please join us for an Open Mic Q&A discussion on "Customizing the Notes Install Kit". You’ll have an opportunity to ask questions directly of IBM Lotus Developers and Support Engineers.
Date: Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Eastern US timefor 60 minutes
Register and RSVP on-line
Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive an email message containing the dial in number and access PIN.
1. Click this RSVP link
2. Provide your name and email address
3. Click Proceed.
Note: The system will stop accepting RSVPs 90 minutes before the start of the call.
Web Conference URL: https://www.lotuslive.com/en/join?schedid=5937820
Q&A and transcript
In addition to asking questions live during the call, you may submit questions in advance as a response to this thread in the Notes/Domino 8.5 forum. A transcript of all questions and answers will be posted to the following technote:
Open Mic Invitation: Notes 8.5.1 Upgrade & Deployment Best Practices
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2010
Please join us for an Open Mic Q&A discusson on "Notes 8.5.1 Upgrade & Deployment Best Practices". You’ll have an opportunity to ask questions directly to IBM Lotus Developers and Support Engineers.
Date: Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM Eastern US timefor 60-75 minutes (depending on number of questions)
Register and RSVP on-line
Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive an email message containing the dial in number and access PIN.
1. Click this direct link
2. Provide your name and email address
3. Click Proceed.
Web Conference URL: https://www.lotuslive.com/en/join?schedid=5937820
Q&A and transcript
In addition to asking questions live during the call, you may submit questions in advance as a response to this thread in the Notes/Domino 8.5 forum. A transcript of all questions and answers will be posted to the following technote:
EVENT: IBM Collaboration with Apple Mac at Apple Store San Francisco on May 19, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14, 2010
IBM Collaboration with Apple – HOSTED BY WORKFLOW STUDIOS
You are invited to join us at the Apple Store in San Francisco for an exclusive event demonstrating many of the IBM collaboration solutions for Apple. With the increased use of the MacBook in the enterprise along with the explosion of iPhone usage, companies need to use the best of breed collaboration tools on the platforms that the users prefer. IBM collaboration solutions provide the tools to perform basic inter-office tasks but also provide some of the most cutting-edge technologies to engage in conversations and communities with your customers and partners. If you have Macs, iPhones or iPads or if you are considering how your business can benefit from the user friendly technology from Apple, then this is an event that you will not want to miss!
Demos will include the following for Mac, iPhone and iPad:
- instant messaging
- web meetings
- office applications
- corporate and external file sharing
- status updates (microblogging)
- shared bookmarks
- special interest communities
- blogs and wikis
What: IBM Collaboration Tools for Apple Mac
When: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 8:00 – 10:00 am
Where: Apple Store San Francisco (One Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94108)
Cost: Free
Three reasons Snow Leopard beats Windows in the enterprise
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/mac/?p=494
Apple’s second-quarter profit jumps 90 percent
http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-04-20/apple-s-second-quarter-profit-jumps-90-percent.html
iPhone Wins Over the Tech Crowd
http://www.cio.com/article/593310/iPhone_Wins_Over_the_Tech_Crowd?source=CIONLE_nlt_insider_2010-05-13
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EVENT: LCTY Online from LotusUSersGroup.org
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2010
| Hello Colleague,
Lotusphere Comes to You Online 2010 is in full-swing. Hundreds of your colleagues have already registered for these exciting and informative sessions that you can experience in the comfort of your own work space. Register now. We have added another session to the line-up, LotusLive Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2: One Smart Move. You’ll get a first-hand look at the enhanced user interface and added features throughout Lotus Symphony. You’ll also learn how you can download your own free copy and test drive Symphony’s exciting new features and functions. The May 27 session, "Top Chefs" Share Recipes for Avoiding Everyday Server Disasters, is brought to you by Sherpa Software and helps you secure and performance-tune your servers to mitigate mail fidelity issues, and routing or replication bottlenecks. Lotusphere Comes to You Online is offering six exciting and informative sessions between now and Collaboration in the Cloud with IBM LotusLive IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony in Action: Putting it to Work for You! Getting a Grip on Your Enterprise: An Introduction to Performance Tuning LotusLive Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2: One Smart Move “Top Chefs” Share Recipes for Avoiding Everyday Server Disasters Project Management: Jedi Mind Tricks All times are EDT. Each Webinar lasts an hour with an opportunity to ask questions. Get the detailed descriptions and register today with your free LotusUserGroup.org membership. Archived session available on demand right now: • IBM Lotus Notes and Domino Strategy and the Future of the Desktop • The Lotus Application Development Strategy • The Future of Unified Communications and Collaboration: IBM Lotus Sametime Strategy and Roadmap Sincerely, Debbie Lynd, Content Director |
EVENT: Next Webcast: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Upgrade Process on 5/4 at 3pm Eastern
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010
WorkFlow Studios discusses the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Upgrade Process
Through the years, the Notes Domino upgrade process has been straightforward. There has been no need for "rip and replace" and in many cases, the install package wrote over the existing installation, making upgrades pretty simple. Many new features have been released in the last couple of years. Some of those features cannot be turned on without some restructuring of the server architecture and the extensive use of profiles. Many of our customers have taken this opportunity, as they upgrade to ND8.5, to ensure that their collaboration infrastructure is running efficiently and that it utilizes the great new features, such as DAOS, ID Vault, compression, port encryption and more.
As WorkFlow Studios has been engaged with our customers, we have developed systems and processes that have helped those customers reduce their upgrade time and costs significantly. Our methods have been used in small environments as well as large, complex infrastructures. We invite you to attend this webcast as we present information about our efficient processes that can help you and save you money as you move to the exciting new releases of Notes and Domino.
This webcast follows our successful webcasts about Lotus Mobility options including BlackBerry and Lotus Traveler, and application development for the iPhone. If you would like more information on those topics, please contact sales.
Webcast: The IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Upgrade Process
- Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 3-4pm Eastern (noon-1pm Pacific)
- Repeat Session: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 12-1pm Eastern (9-10am Pacific)
Register today at: http://www.workflowstudios.com/NDUpgradeWebcast
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EVENT: Lotus Greenhouse Webcast – IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 – April 15,2010
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2010
Lotus Greenhouse Webcast
IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5
Details:
What’s new in IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5
IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 is the latest version of Sametime with a focus on making unified communication and collaboration easier. Sametime 8.5 is focused on an easier online meetings experience, Web 2.0 browser access to Sametime instant messaging, our mobile Sametime client for iPhone, updated audio and video capabilities, the new System Console for managing your deployment, and new API’s to "communications enable" your applications and business processes. Whether you use Sametime in your daily work, deploy and manage Sametime infrastructure, or develop or deliver applications built on top of Lotus Sametime, this session will deliver exciting and valuable planning insights.
Date: April 15, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM Eastern
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=15&year=2010&hour=12&min=0&sec=0&p1=43
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Dial-in Information
USA Toll Free 888-469-3190
Toll 1-415-228-5025
Passcode: Lotus Greenhouse
International Numbers attached
(See attached file: STInternationalnumbers.txt)
Web Conference Information
1. Go to the URL – http://www.lotuslive.com/join?schedid=3336625
2. Enter your name and email address
3. Click the ‘Log In’ button
*Presentation will be posted day of webcast and Playback recording will be posted shortly after the webcast. These files can be located
here: https://greenhouse.lotus.com/lotus/myquickr/lotus-greenhouse-webcast
EVENT: Lotusphere Comes To You 2010
Posted in Education on April 6, 2010
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Join us and meet the experts that can help you become knowledgeable about the collaboration solutions that are specific to your industry, your business objectives and your IT operations:
- Do you have new employees wondering where the social software is?
- Are your professionals curious about how they can use email on the web from any one of their devices?
- Is your management team asking you, ‘When can you help us deliver a web channel that will drive our customers to learn more about our products and services’?
- Are your colleagues and business partners tired of having to open all sorts of different collaboration tools just to get simple work done?
Attend key sessions to get insider information on:
- Messaging & Collaboration
- Social Networking
- Web 2.0 tools
- Software as a service
- Unified Communications & Collaboration
- Portals
Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about how IBM can help you improve your competitive advantage and thrive within the challenges presented by today’s economic environment.
Invite your colleagues to register today for an event near you: http://www.ibm.com/lotus/lcty
I look forward to seeing you at the Lotusphere Comes to You.