Prolifics is excited to announce that we will be teaming with IBM to host a virtual tradeshow “Strategies for Optimizing Your Business” on March 16, 2010 – doors open at 9:00 am EST with sessions available throughout the day. Your customers will experience a one-of-a-kind informational tradeshow right from their desk; chat live with subject matter experts; download documents from the resource center and go to the theater to view our featured sessions. Session topics include Collaboration, Business Process Management and Business Intelligence and we will also be introducing Prolifics new Autonomic Monitoring Platform. IBM products showcased include Lotus Connections and Quickr, ILOG, WebSphere Business Monitor, Cognos Express, ITCAM and Rational Team Concert.

Please invite your customers to attend this truly unique event.

Invitation is attached and below.

Registration Link:
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=194215&s=1&k=2003D100FB4BEC35C837E2A4B0681383

Thanks,
Maureen
]]> http://collaborationgirl.com/2010/03/02/event-strategies-for-optimizing-your-business-virtual-tradeshow-march-16-2010-doors-open-at-900-am-est/feed/ 0 Collaboration Girl http://collaborationgirl.com/2010/02/17/portland-lotusphere-comes-to-you-date-announced/ http://collaborationgirl.com/2010/02/17/portland-lotusphere-comes-to-you-date-announced/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:24:39 +0000 hollikonig http://collaborationgirl.com/?p=495 ]]> I am sure that you some of you have seen, dates have been released for Lotusphere Comes to you in major cities through out the world.  I wanted to be sure that you all knew about the event happening in Portland OR.

PAVONE AG and Elguji Software are hosting a great event in Portland on March 16th 2009 8:30 AM – 1 PM.  They have rented out a great little place called the Livingroom Theater and I really think this will be a great event.  This round will be small and intimate, allowing for 25 participants, so registration is required.

Please see http://elguji.com/ideajam/blog/blog.nsf/d6plinks/BELT-82JV5G for more details!

Details: Running Lotus Products in Your Own Cloud
The webcast will cover how to implement your own virtualization cloud to run IBM Lotus products on a VMware ESX cluster, with particular attention to best practices, practical implementation, running virtual and physical servers in the same cluster, challenges and solutions, rapid deployment from staging to production with minimal to no downtime.

Date: February 18, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM Eastern
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=18&year=2010&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=43

(See attached file: LGHWebcastinvite.ics)

Dial-in Information
USA Toll Free – 888-955-8940
Toll – 1-212-547-0420

Passcode: Lotus Greenhouse
International Numbers attached
(See attached file: InternationalNumbers.txt)

Unyte 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

Smartphone users send or receive emails more than any other business activity. And you may have guessed that accessing calendar information is a close second. We all know how critical mobile access has become in today’s workplace. IBM and WorkFlow Studios invite you to see the great possibilities when you include these mobile devices in your collaboration strategy.

At this session we will discuss and demo various Lotus products on the iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices.

The goal is to encourage you to consider including these types of devices in your strategy and to show you how your employees can have access to their mail, calendar, PIM and other applications using these devices.

Discussion Topics:

• Lotus mobility solutions for Blackberry devices

• Lotus mobility solutions for Windows Mobile devices

• iPhone Application development for mobile devices

San Francisco, CA – February 9

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
IBM San Francisco Innovation Center
425 Market Street, Room #20-280
San Francisco, CA 94105

Costa Mesa, CA – February 11

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
IBM Costa Mesa 600 Anton Blvd, 2nd Floor Room #209
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Space is limited REGISTER NOW

For more information:

David Stephens
WorkFlow Studios
Director of Interactive Sales and Marketing
949-212-5396

is pleased to announce a Super Women’s Group Reception at Lotusphere 2010!

What does it take to advance your career?  What are the most common leadership traits?  What are some practical tips to help get you over the career obstacles?  IBM SWG Super Women’s Group invites you to a special reception at Lotusphere, where we will share what we have learned from interviewing 10 IBM Business Partner senior leaders worldwide.

Presented by:

Sandy Carter, Vice President, Software Group Channels
Kristen Lauria, Vice President, Marketing and Channels, Lotus Software
Carol Caprio, Executive, Channel Sales and Technical Enablement

Date: Monday, January 18th, 2010
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) (Drinks & Appetizers)
Location: Yacht and Beach Conference Center –  Grand Ballroom Salon 1

We’d appreciate your help in encouraging other women Lotusphere attendees to participate as well. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to build connections with fellow IBM’ers as well as other women in the industry and Business Partners. We hope to see you there!

Do you remember her??

I love her tag lines!!  I think I resemble that remark!

I have to say… in looking at the website… it is even more fitting, since this past holiday I have learned how to make bread, yes, bread.  This techie, has gotten back to such basics.  I love it… the mixing of the flour with all the ingredients, the rising of the dough is so satisfying…the beating of the dough to pound out all the air (great stress reliever – I am just saying!!)  My absolute favorite part though – is the simple satisfaction in watching the bread rise and brown in the oven, and my boy friends eyes when he eats it hot out of the oven with melted butter… there can be nothing more satisfying.

Well other than another happy customer on Lotus!

Happy Smiles!

LotusLive online services….

… uniquely integrates through open standards with existing, on-premise customer solutions

… access through a familiar web 2.0 user interface

… makes it easy for customers to extend collaborative capability to the cloud

LotusLive is IBM Lotus’ portfolio of solutions that offer Software as a Service (SaaS) for organizations to leverage in the cloud. In addition, LotusLive Solutions can extend your on premise investments to the cloud.

SaaS became a well used word in 2009. Organizations found that they needed to find ways that they could cut IT costs, simplify end user connectivity, managing help desks and streamline costs associated with upgrades. Software as a Service offers a cloud model of delivering software, on demand, managed by an outside source. It is very structured and controlled, with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) being offered and just enough capabilities. Business are finding that while this is an attractive offering, once getting down to the realities of it, there are limitations. There are challenges with an all-inclusive approach. It would be difficult to deliver all the services that a customer needs to run their business including business applications, telecom, help desk all in one place. There are many concerns regarding volumes of existing information, data migration, mobile access, all or nothing solutions, integration with their internal applications and security models, let alone having someone else manage all of your content.

IBM has recognized this. In talking to our customers regarding their needs, IBM has found that not one size fits all. In the LotusLive Portfolio, IBM offers technical delivery solutions that can help to bridge the needs of the end users, the requirements of the business, and balance some of the financial relief that the business is looking to solve. In the LotusLive offerings we have a portfolio that allows for a hybrid model which extends On-premise investments to, hosted and cloud solutions.

The rich portfolio of service offerings of LotusLive that make collaborating across boundaries easy for business of all sizes.

There are some basic common needs, but we all know that the requirements for communication is not the same for everyone in your organization. Corporate Directors and C-Level executives have very different needs from the needs of the janitor.  That is an easy one.  However, there are more gradient levels and companies need to figure out how to profile their user communities.

IBM understands this. We have reviewed the user communities of customers, IBM internally and worked with analysts, and have defined three primary categories based on their business and collaborative requirements. The following three categories cover the distinctions – however there are also gradients inside of these categories as well.

• Knowledge Workers - requiring the most sophisticated messaging and collaboration
• Task Workers - these needs vary by function, some need full collaboration, others over-served
• Boundary Workers - clearly need just the essentials for email and calendaring

This approach of profiling the users, offers the customer the ability to determine what level of capabilities are needed and how to deliver these the abilities, all the while being able to leverage the capabilities of the SaaS model. By understanding the needs of the users, and the business, this is where you build the strongest case for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Leveraging costs across the organization, based on end-user requirements, provides the best overall TCO

IBM offers two different workshops to help customers:

User Segmentation Workshop

IBM helps to define the collaboration culture in your organization. We then conduct an exercise to help develop corporate personas. Once these personas are identified, we analyze their categories based on their social networks and sub networks. Once these have been outlined, use cases are built to help define vision and approach to delivering email and collaborative tools to the business.

TCO Value Workshop

In this workshop, IBM works with the customer focusing on data specific to their environment to review existing options. In evaluating all the delivery options available, we are able to help the customer build distinctions to provide a complete TCO view of each of the delivery models. We compare these options side by side regardless of whether it is SaaS, on premise, a hybrid implementation with on premise and SaaS, on premise with appliances, or all three.

So when you think of SaaS, consider the bigger picture, and be sure to engage IBM to assist you in examining the options. Remember that IBM has the experience in running efficient, reliable, secure and large scaled computing environments. The flexibility of options for delivery models. The innovation of Enterprise Web 2.0 based social computing paradigm that will allow more effective collaboration among employees, customers, and partners. All of this while leveraging our internal resources to partner with customers to develop cloud strategies and implementation plan that’s the right fit.

For more information please see http://www.lotuslive.com or contact me directly and I can get you in touch with someone that can help you.

In the days ahead, we all share a commonality of holiday celebration
We show it and express it in many way
it may be the birth of a great man or the passing of a season,
it could be the fall of understanding and the rise of hope,
the strengthening of family and community.

In the passing of another year, and the promise of the new
may all your hope and wishes come true
remember the the hard of the past, and learn to let it go
take the great from the year before and pass it forward
listen to those who have already been there, and mentor those who need to know
always remember to hold the ones dear, close to you
and relish in their love for you.

Regardless of the holiday that we honor,
it is a time to take pause, in our busy lives
to take a look at the world around us,
and rejoice in all that is pure of home and family

I would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season.
May Peace and many blessings flourish with the abundance of love during your
celebrations and throughout the New Year!

To all of you, be safe, be happy and most of all…. say “I love you” often if you mean it!  You never know what is next.

Holli – Collaboration Girl

Original Message
From: Sametime Information
Sent: 11/24/2009 06:18 PM EST
To: Holli Konig
Subject: Lotus Education knows seeing is believing – Join us for weekly demos on Multimedia Library for Lotus software and more..

Did you know? Lotus Education is hosting weekly demo’s!

Join members of the Lotus Education staff each Wednesday at 11:00 EST to see live demonstrations of the Multimedia Library for Lotus Software training solution. No registration is required – all you need to do is add it to your calendar and attend. Invite customers, prospects and colleagues to experience first hand how and why the Multimedia Library is the fastest, most affordable way to learn Lotus Software! Open Invitation! What: Multimedia Library for Lotus Software demos When: – Every Wednesday at 11:00 EST Dial-in / Login Details Toll free 1-866-907-1016 Toll 1-719-387-8316 Tie 650-0106 Participant passcode: 439736 Join meeting: International toll free International toll free National free phone (Mexico) 01 800 054 0647 International toll free (Argentina) 0800 666 3713 International toll free (Australia) 1 800 065 224 International toll free (Austria) 0800 295 351 International toll free (Belgium) 0 800 76 199 International toll free (Bulgaria) 00 800 115 1051 International toll free (Chile) 123 0020 9188 International toll free (Colombia) 01 800 518 0958 International toll free (Czech Republic) 800 700 467 International toll free (Denmark) 80 889 658 International toll free (Dominican Republic) 1 888 751 4716 International toll free (Ecuador) 1 800 010 173 International toll free (France) 0 800 910 810 International toll free (Germany) 0 800 182 3970 International toll free (Greece) 00 800 161 2205 7826 International toll free (Hong Kong) 800 933 339 International toll free (Hungary) 06 800 167 29 International toll free (Indonesia) 001 803 017 7825 International toll free (Ireland) 1 800 949 018 International toll free (Israel) 1 80 924 3006 International toll free (Italy) 800 871 917 International toll free (Japan) 00531 16 0925 International toll free (Latvia) 8000 3224 International toll free (Lithuania) 8 800 3 07 45 International toll free (Luxembourg) 800 2 3012 International toll free (Mexico) 001 800 514 7826 International toll free (Monaco) 800 93 510 International toll free (Netherlands) 0 800 022 3061 International toll free (New Zealand) 0 800 445 637 International toll free (Norway) 800 104 59 International toll free (Panama) 00 800 226 6899 International toll free (Peru) 0800 53 681 International toll free (Poland) 00 800 111 48 41 International toll free (Portugal) 800 819 980 International toll free (Russia) 810 800 2567 1012 International toll free (Singapore) 800 101 2139 International toll free (Slovakia) 0800 606 306 International toll free (Slovenia) 0 800 80310 International toll free (South Africa) 0 800 981 573 International toll free (South Korea) 003 0813 2179 International toll free (Spain) 900 981 587 International toll free (Sweden) 02 079 0504 International toll free (Switzerland) 0 800 895 072 International toll free (Thailand) 001 800 156 205 7826 International toll free (Trinidad-Tobago) 1 800 205 7826 International toll free (UAE) 800 017 7826 International toll free (UK) 0 808 101 5336 International toll free (Uruguay) 0004 019 0276 International toll free (Venezuela) 0 800 100 8366

I was so very surprised to see one piece that I was not expecting.  The laptop was shipped to me without MS Office on the desktop.  I had Lotus Notes 8.5 of course, Sametime, Connections plugins and SYMPHONY.

So here is my thoughts after the first 90 days without MS Office.

The first thing that I thought was… ok… now I can really cut the cord and use Symphony only.  I had been using it for over a year… but not exclusively.  IBM has been offering all of our templates, forms and presentations in the Symphony formats, but I was still using the Office Suite.  Well really it was the default on my old laptop.  But I do have to say that I have been using MS Office since it’s inception, so it is hard to make a complete cut over without taking some action.

To be honest… I am enjoying this much more.  The fact that when I do a file save, my machine does not freeze, most of the capabilities are not that different, in presentations I can add animation, manage groups, combine objects, add text effects, so many things that you can do in Powerpoint.  My favorite thing is the ease of use (more logical in my opinion) for the Masters – Slides, Notes and Handouts and controlling the Page Layouts.  I tend to use presentations the most, but really there are great things about the Document and the Spreadsheet tools as well.  Really tables are so much easier, formating is easier too… no pesky hidden code to make you mad and hard to control.

It is also so very easy to save documents into Office formats to share with my customers, and to easily export in one click to PDF / HTML format.

Here is the point:  I am just one person and with little to no effort this upgrade saved IBM $350.  You can do the math for your own organization and see how much money you can save.

I am really happy… and I have not looked back once!  Give it a try yourself for free… BE FREE AND WORK SMART!!