By IBM Docs is the new name for the technology preview which was previously called IBM LotusLive Symphony. It essentially is IBM’s foray into the browser-based office productivity suite and competes at some levels with Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365. So what does IBM Docs have going for it that the others don’t? Its free [...]
If like me you enjoy working with technology as much as encouraging others to use it, you should find IBM’s Tech Trend report interesting reading. It presents the findings of a survey conducted by IBM with over 4000 IT professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries. In summary it highlights the following technologies as being [...]
What a roller coaster of a trip Lotusphere 2012 has been. It started off last Sunday with an excellent Business Development Day for Business Partners which was highly-focused, well timed and above all – relevant – to what we as IBM Business Partners need to understand from IBM. There was a repeat of the request [...]
By I’m going to steal Alans thunder. Here is a link that he posted in LinkedIn http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/8697-quietly-ibm-becomes-the-enterprise-facebook?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog. IBM are in Social Software for Business in a big way. Why is business concerned about social software? The key phrase in the article is, IBM is looking to put its investments in data mining and analytics to use [...]
Day one at Lotusphere was excellent. The opening general session kicked off with OK GO (the guys with the video of them jumping around on treadmills) playing a few of their songs together with the excellent videos that go with them. This got everyone pumped up but that wasn’t all. The opening general session has [...]
Lotusphere Business Development Day is the first official day of the conference and is designed to give Business Partners the inside scoop on many of the upcoming announcements and to push home some of the techniques IBM use to provide Social Business to its customers. This year the opening general session was moved from its [...]
Seric Systems allows each employee 2 days off of work a year to go and work for a charity. In the past, employees have done things like, working as a driver for cancer charities or working as a volunteer in a charity shop. This year however I would like to donate my skills, contacts and [...]
I head off to sunny Orlando on Saturday morning to take my part in the annual IBM jamboree about all things Lotus/ICS. Last year the focus was very much on establishing social business as being a force for the improvement of business. Much was made of the disappearance of the Lotus brand and everyone had [...]
I’m going to boldly go where no one (or at least very few) have gone before. The Blackberry Bold is better than the iPhone. There, I’ve said it. Sure the iPhone looks slick, has sliding things and has a very marketing orientated company behind it but the simple fact is the Blackberry Bold is a [...]
Week one of an Exchange to Domino migration is hopefully the toughest. The best laid plans get put into action, the understandings formed of the customer’s environment are challenged and the architecture you’ve built is tested to the extreme. This particular customer is going from a mixture of Exchange 2000 and 2003 to Domino 8.5.2 [...]