lotus messaging & collaboration strategy: lcty 2011

Messaging and
Collaboration Strategy

Miro DolaptchievIBS

Agenda

Messaging and Collaboration Marketplace

2010 in Review

Near and Long Term Plans

Marketplace Scorecard

Lotus Notes and DominoSteady position in a rapidly-evolving marketplace

Fastest growing business mobile email platform (IDC, September 2010)

Vast majority running 8.5.x release (tracking surveys, support PMRs)

LotusLive NotesStrong analyst and customer reception out of the gate

Competitive consideration opening new opportunities for IBM

Lotus SymphonyOver 50 million copies distributed

Lotus ProtectorPersonalized control within the familiar Lotus Notes client

99%+ efficacy (ICSA Labs)

Notes and Domino had again a very successful year in 2010. We retained our position in terms of market share overall ... second place. I can't cite numbers, but our friends at IDC would be happy to tell you exact numbers. But it's been consistent. I actually went back and looked at a report of theirs from five years ago, numbers about the same.So this is not a market around e-mail that is in dramatic change right now. There are changes in delivery mechanism, there's changes in sort of the commoditization of the market, but this isn't, in and of itself, the dramatic growth we saw, the messaging wars in the '90s or whatever. So having a steady position in a rapidly evolving technology marketplace as we evolve toward social and the full collaborative value is a good thing.One of the highlights of the year last year for us was that IBC in September issued a report on the mobile business e-mail marketplace and indicated that IBM was the fastest growing product in that category with Lotus Notes Traveler. So we were growing faster than Exchange Active Synch, faster than our good friends at RIM(?) ... so very, very successful presence with Lotus Notes Traveler. We're going to continue that in 2011 and beyond.We also learned during 2010 and kind of current state of the market that the vast majority of you are running 8.x or 8.5.x versions of Notes and Domino in your environment with upgrades on the server approaching somewhere around 75 percent of the marketplace, client upgrades a little bit less than that. But tracking studies, PMR counts, all of that seems to point to very, very successful and rapid penetration of the 8.5x stream.LotusLive Notes, we've been off to a fast start. I'm going to tell you a little bit more about that offering which we introduced last year. Very, very strong resonance in the market, we talked about it a little bit this morning. When we talk about it in sales opportunities, we're seeing competitive consideration in about a third of all opportunities we're going after today. So this isn't just about whether you as an existing Notes and Domino customer are looking to move to the Cloud, there's also the opportunity that companies on Legacy systems have chosen to look at LotusLive Notes as well.Symphony and LotusLive Symphony, lots to talk about there. As we said this morning, over 50 million downloads now cumulatively on Symphony, on Lotus Symphony. Even the pirates love us. One of my guys on my team send me a link to go look at some of the torrent sites and some of the other places on the web that I don't really spend a lot of time on, and they all have download counts, which I love, because then you see these hundreds of thousands of people just adding to their wares with Lotus Symphony, so I like that, I'm okay with that. It's a free product.And then the last piece of the messaging clab portfolio is Lotus Protector ... two flavors, mail security, mail encryption. We introduced mail encryption last year, very fast start with that, successful implementation of that. And then we also are doing very well with Lotus Protector for mail security continues to have a 99 percent efficiency rate as measured by CSA Labs.

Agenda


2010 in Review


Notes and Domino Milestones

Notes/Domino 8.5.2 release August 2010Incremental feature enhancements to Notes/Domino/DWA

Domino Designer: New editors, controls

Quality improvements

Performance optimization

Better deployment/management

Notes Traveler on Linux, full iOS calendar, mobile installer

Notes Traveler 8.5.2: Linux server, Mobile Installer

Traveler Companion for iOS: Now receive and send encrypted mail

8.5.2.1: Android client

We released another of our incremental releases around Notes and Domino 8.5. Since we adopted the agile development methodology we've been doing these smaller, faster, more incremental releases with 8.50, 8.51, 8.52 and then, you know, something coming this year ... to get features into market quickly, to evolve the product without doing major reconstruction or upgrade planning. And 8.52 is a very successful release in that regard. Some new features in the Notes client as well as in DWA. You'll learn about those and their associated breakouts.Lots of new things in Domino Designer, both from an XPages perspective as well as from a traditional developer, editor tools and updates. Lot of quality improvements, a lot of PMR and SPR defect work. Better deployment in management tools. Again, we keep focusing on things like performance, updatability, the memory footprint of the Notes client. All of that has been addressed more and more as we've moved through the 8X code stream. And then 8.52 had a lot to offer in terms of Notes Traveler with the first implementation of Notes Traveler server on Linux as well as full IOS support for calendar work flow and a new technology we call the mobile installer that makes it easier for the mobile devices to understand what version of Traveler that they should be running.Continuing in the Traveler theme, we also did other updates during the year on Traveler including the travel companion for IOS that we introduced here at Lotusphere last year, got updated throughout the year, now does both ... send and receive of encrypted mail on IOS devices. And then at the end of the year we shipped our Android client, as we had announced at Lotusphere last year. So that took a little bit longer than we had anticipated, there's a lot to do when you decide to build a client from scratch. I'm very happy that we decided to build the client from scratch because the Android distributions are turning out to be as fragmented as we sort of expected. We also are not seeing the enterprise features come in those devices by default. So by building our own client, we've been able to iterate now, once it's in market we're going to iterate very quickly ... we talked about instant messaging for Android natively and for IOS this morning. So you see continued investment in those native interfaces on the mobile devices.So again, very, very successful, fast duration. The Traveler client for Android, when we finished it off, we did a survey of beta participants and 95 said, yup, ready to ship. So a very high success rate during the beta period, and good adoption since.And then we saw some real success in the Notes/Domino marketplace with our business partners in 2010. Some of the partners that ship plug-ins for the Lotus Notes client included partners like Tungle for enterprise calendaring or cross calendary ... and Gist for discovery of information within your network.

Additional Notes and Domino 2010 Milestones

March 2010: Free developer and test images on IBM Cloud, Amazon EC2

November 2010: Blackberry Enterprise Server Express for Domino

December 2010: Clustering available 1/1/11 in Domino Collaboration Express

Major contributions to OpenNTF.orgDownload volume up 20% Y2Y

Un-release vehicle

One example: New XPages Extension
Library 68 new controls in one package

More coming soon

Some other things that we accomplished during 2010 were in March, we delivered on what we had announced last year initially around using Cloud delivery with Domino ... and that was the developer and test images on the IBM Cloud as well as on Amazon. This morning you heard more announcements about that ... I'm come to that in the 2011 and beyond section of the presentation.We also, in November, as mentioned this morning, RIM shipped a BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for Domino, a-no charge version of the BES server with fewer features, but no charge. So we like that. And then at the end of the year we announced that we were changing the licensing scheme for Domino Expresso that collaboration express customers would have access to clustering capabilities as part of their license and not have to worry about trading up to the enterprise or CEO licenses.So a little bit of changes, you know, little adjustments that we make in our go to market are always a good bonus to what we do.We also, as we started at Lotusphere last year, updated several times through the year, the catalog.lotus.com site, the IBM solutions catalog for Lotus. There's a lot of partners out there, a lot of solutions available for your Notes and Domino investment as well as other Lotus portfolio products. So the catalog's been updated several times, it's started to have some social features, some rating, links to demos and downloads. There's a lot more to it.And clearly, we want to do more to make you, as customers, and even your end users, aware of some of the opportunities available to incorporate solutions into your Notes and Domino investment. So think of the catalog as a, you know, step in the direction that we want to continue to head down where we're going to make it even more available to see what you can do with Notes.Another place that we've been really energizing the community around what you can do with Notes is through open NTF. A couple of years ago here at Lotusphere, we said open NTF was going to be a critical part of our go to market for code and access to technology and really being part of building up what was out there for Notes and Domino in terms of value add.Our developers have been adding code to open NTF on an almost daily basis. In fact, right around the time we shipped 8.52, we put a whole library of stuff out on open NTF that you might have even thought of as an 8.53 release. It's that kind of code quality and capability. By putting them on open NTF instead of waiting for us to have a shipped vehicle, we can get code to you faster that will make you more productive in your development or in the solutions that you deploy.So very successful year for open NTF, downloads increase on a 20 percent basis year to year. We now see it as an unreleased vehicle, a place to put code before we put it in the real product ... before or if, depends on the code ... and I mentioned the extension library is just one example of that.

LotusLive NotesFrom coming soon to zoom

Best-in-class enterprise cloud messagingHybrid deployment model

Accessed through the Internet via included Notes client or browser

Integrated Sametime instant messaging

Seamless dashboard integration across LotusLive

Included anti-spam/anti-virus

Available mobile services

99.9% SLO

25 GB mailbox

April 2010 Beta

June 2010 Limited availability

August 2010 General availability

October 2010 -- 2nd Release

I want to shift gears a little bit and talk about what we did in LotusLive Notes last year. We announced this basically at Lotusphere last year although we had been working on it a bit before that. This is really where you see us being incredibly responsive to the market, very agile in our development methodology ... we went from announcement at Lotusphere last year to basically three releases that we did through 2010, and we're on the cusp of our first in 2011.LotusLive Notes is a true software, is a service, Cloud-based, pay-as-you-go, Domino mailbox architecture ... specifically engineered to support hybrid deployments of both on premises and Cloud implementation. So you don't have to move everybody all at once, you don't have to do a big, wholesale migration ... you can operate some of your app servers on premises, you can operate mailbox users on premises ... and it just looks like your existing Domino architecture. It's just an extension of that environment. So very sophisticated engineering on our back end.From a user's perspective, completely integrated on a dashboard. So whether you're using one or all of the LotusLive services, everything is no more than one or two clicks away from where ever you are within the LotusLive environment. It comes with 25-gig mailboxes. We have a service level target have 99.9 ... we have mobile service available including an announcement that I think we made this morning around adding Android and BlackBerry services being available for LotusLive Notes ... includes anti-spam and anti-virus, it includes instant messaging from Same Time, and it includes the right to use the Notes client.So for $5 a user/a month, we're competitive price-wise in the market, but we're more than competitive on features, functions and capability plus you have all the benefits of LotusLive overall.So, on the right you see ... we went through a very rapid calendar. We went to beta in April, we went to a limited availably with our first customer, GMCH in June, we went to general availability in August, and we did our second release in October, and we're doing another release here in the next four to six weeksSo the nice thing about the Cloud is you can iterate very rapidly. We is implement new features and capabilities on the back end, you know, sort of at will, almost ... I'm not, you know, down playing the engineering work that's involved ... but we can work very, very quick on this. And you'll see in the road map for 2011 that we have many plans that we will execute on during this year.

Lotus Symphony 3 Shipped November, 2010

New Features

Interoperability

Enhancements

ODF 1.2 Support

Support OLE objects

Business Card, envelope and Label templates

Add-on installer for Notes

Signed Plugins

Right Sidebar

Chart Support

User Experience

Richer Java & LS API's

New Toolkit

MS VB Macro support

MS Office 2007 Import and fidelity improved

Interoperability with OOo improved

Graphics objects rendering improved

Lotus Symphony 3 represents the biggest advancement since we launched public beta of V1 in fall of 2007

Rebased on OpenOffice.org 3 code stream consistent with the OpenOffice.org community versioning scheme

New capabilities and user experience enhancements throughout

Major focus on improved support for Microsoft Office file format and interoperability with Microsoft Office users

Lotus Symphony 3 shipped in November of 2010. So good we skipped version 2. There was no version 2 because we actually wanted to align with Open Office. So we derived Symphony 3 from Open Office 3, weapon wanted to align the version numbers around that.A significant number of improvements both in terms of features, in terms of interoperability, in terms of enhancement to the capabilities, in terms of programmability. And you can see, you know, nowhere near a complete list here on the slide of all the things that are new within Lotus Symphony 3.

Agenda


2010 in Review


Co-editing real-time or private mode

Author presence awareness

Live sections

Contextual commenting & discussions

Assignment and notifications

Revision history

Task management

Attention management

Web-based collaborative editors for creating, sharing and collaboratively authoring word processor, spreadsheet and presentation documents

More than editors through a browser

LotusLive Symphony, as we announced and demonstrated this morning, taking productivity editors to the Cloud, but really more than editors, right? If you walked away with any one message from the demonstration this morning, it shouldn't be that just hey, now I can do, you know, a set of spread sheets and word processing in a Cloud environment. It's actually that you can do co-editing. That you can do ... have presence awareness, that you can do live sectioning, that you can have contextual comments and discussions, that you can assign sections of a document out to other authors of have notifications around that, that you'll be able to do revision history, that you do task and attention management.These are all things that are much more sophisticated, but more focused around the social elements of collaboration than what other vendors have provided thus far in terms of trying to do productivity editors in the Cloud. So this is going to go live on Lotus Greenhouse some time in the next couple of weeks. If you already have a greenhouse I.D. or a LotusLive labs I.D, either way, we actually made it transparent ... up on my blog you can see a YouTube video we posted over the weekend that will show you what LotusLive Symphony is all about. And if you are really interested in this, there's a very cool session coming up on the agenda from my team where they're actually going to do only a few slides and mostly demo and just spend about the bulk of the 60 minutes shows you what LotusLive Symphony is all about.In terms of timeline on that, so again, the tech preview 2 will be this quarter. And then we are planning to release LotusLive Symphony this year in the second half. So this is not some future set of technologies, we started by showing you prototypes last year at Lotusphere, demonstrating it this year, being ready to go to beta or tech preview, and going live to ship is in the second half of the year.

IBM Lotus Symphony Family Roadmap

Symphony 3.0 4Q 2010OO 3.x code baseODF 1.2VB MacroMS Office 2007 Support cont'd

Symphony 3.x1Q2013VB Macro cont'd Concord/Symphony SynergyMS 2007 support cont'd1 Million row spreadsheetUX cont'd

Symphony 3.x1Q 2014File format interoprability
cont'dSolution EnablementLinked Value

The information on the new product is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information on the new product is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract. The information on the new product is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion

Symphony 3.x1Q2012Maintenance ReleaseRoll-up of prior fixpacksUpdated OS platformsFidelity fixesPerformance improvement1st hour UX

FP11Q2011

FP23Q2011

FPx2Q2012

LotusLive Symphony2H2011New! Web based editorsCo-edit, Task Management, Commenting, One-click Styling

LotusLive Symphony Tech Preview2 !Word processing & spreadsheets

LotusLive Symphony Tech Preview 3 1Q2011 Presentations

LotusLive Symphony Next Updates in coordination with LotusLive schedule. Planning to support private cloud implementations.But for both Symphony and LotusLive Symphony, you know, we wanted to convey the message that these are family, they're developed by the same organization within our labs and we're going to build both. We're going to continue to build the on-premises product, the desk top product I guess I should call it in the context of Symphony, and we're going to build the Cloud version.In LotusLive Symphony, we're also looking at how we take those web editors and make them an on-premises product, not just delivered through LotusLive. So there's a lot of different vectors we're going to go down here. We have some customers that we're actually going to partner with early on to understand exactly what the capabilities need to be for LotusLive Symphony in both the Cloud deployment and in a potential on-premises operate it yourself environment.And then Symphony 3 will get updated as well through this year and beyond as we take in new improvements from the Open Office code base, contribute things back and learn from our own deployment as well as from you as customers what needs to be enhanced in that environment.

Mobile devices

Users are increasingly demanding access to applications on mobile devicesStrategy: Provide a consistent solution capability across the leading smartphone platforms, iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry

IBM is investing in supporting the needs of developers to target multiple platformsStarting with Domino XPages apps and Connections mobile web

Designing and optimizing for mobile devices from the start of new releases

Plan to provide an extensible Social App driven by Connections and the IBM Social Business Toolkit activity stream.

Apple iOS

Google Android

Nokia Symbian

BlackberryAnother word you're hearing a lot today is "mobile," right? So, you know, I talked about what we've done in Traveler, so far ... we've increased our investment around mobile significantly in 2011. To where it's really going to be a first class element of our delivery. In 2010 I felt like we turned the corner from follower to leader in this space, and I intend to continue that this year.The challenge with mobile is platforms. Right? You get whiplash, you know, from going to meeting to meeting ... who's got the latest tablet, Smartphone, hand held, new intelligent thing ... well, none of them are really, you know, compatible with each other. It's a do over every time somebody's got some new thing to come to market. The protocols are different, the operating systems are different, the form factors are different, the input factors are different ... so this is expensive engineering for us. But the Traveler team works hard to you don't have to. They are really incredibly talented in getting this stuff right and doing it in a device-appropriate way that either in some cases are going to be native, in some cases it's going to be HTML 5, in some cases it's going to be a hybrid of both ... but we're going to continue to invest very aggressively in this space.And as you're going to see throughout the conference, including tomorrow's mobile strategy session, this is a major element of what we're going to deliver across not just Notes and Domino, but the You See(?) and social and portal and all of our products through 2011 and beyond. And we're going to continue to look at how do we deliver things ... like mange Domino XPages more available, and you saw this morning ... or make Connections more mobile on the web. What can we do to design and optimize our products from the start of the development cycle so that they're optimized around that mobile experience first ... that it's not something that we come along and do later.And as you saw, again in the discussions this morning, and when we do things like the social business tool kit, we're going to do them, again, with a web and mobile mindset right at the start, not just something we're going to come back to later.So there's a lot to watch in this space. I'm very active in working with all of our partners whether it's, you know, working with somebody like Nokia or RIM or somebody like Apple or the Android community ... there's one I'm going the to leave out because I really don't see them as a partner ... and we're going to continue to iterate in this space. And, you know, if the investments need to change, we're not going to wait a year, we're not going to wait two years. We're going to look at this market constantly and understand what the right ways to deliver the right technology.

Notes and Domino 8.5.x

At least one maintenance release planned during 2011Primarily quality and consumability efforts

Some feature work, especially in Designer/XPages

Symbian^3 support (Nokia) planned in Notes Traveler 8.5.x

Fixpacks for 8.5.x stream planned at regular intervals

Marketing and awareness focus:Developer opportunities and power of XPages

ISV solutions, enhancing the value of subscription and support

Don't forget: End-of-service date for Notes/Domino 7.0.x: April 2011

Notes and Domino 8.5 X. So we're going to do at least one maintenance release this year ... probably only one. But we'll see, you know, kind of where we go. And I use the word maintenance kind of loosely. Like the other 8.5 X releases, there will be a few new features in there. So there's some incremental stuff in there.But, for the most part, you know, in the 8.5 X stream, we're kind of done doing major work. What you saw this morning about Notes Next, you know, that's kind of where the attention lies in terms of efforts going forward. We are, in Traveler, going to add some new support as well in the 8.5 X stream. Symbian, the latest versions of Symbian will be supported, what they used to call Symbian 3 or Symbian Hat 3, I never quite got the lingo quite right on that ... but, so the latest versions of Nokia will be supported in that next release of Traveler as well. So we'll keep updating the support in the Traveler environment.We'll continue to do fix packs as well for the full 8.5 X stream at regular intervals. You know, so you can keep on the version you're on, you don't have to feel compelled to go to 8.53, 8.54, you know, or keep up with us in a stream.We also, obviously, have some plans as we continue to work on 8.5 X this year, around marketing and awareness focus. I can't tell you everything here today, but we're going to continue to do some of the workshops and things that we did last year around XPages ... a very successful multi-city as well as virtual set of workshops around XPages all over the world. We're going to do something like that again this year.We're also trying to, as I mentioned earlier, around the catalog ... get more visibility for ISV solutions that run on Notes and Domino. So one of the things that we don't do well is when we come back to you for your renewal on your Notes and Domino S&S, we don't tell you enough about what else you could be doing with those products. So we're trying to build a sort of solutions advantage of you into what's going on with Notes and Domino so at that time of renewal, you'll learn more about what's going on with the product.And then my last message in terms of 8.5 X is don't forget the end of service for 7.0 X is coming up in April. So at that point ... applause for the end of service of 7.0 X ... I remember it well. It just seems like not that long ago. So, that's coming up, so we'll have pretty much the 8 X stream in market at that point.

Notes/Domino Next
Conceptual objectives

InnovationImprove end-user ability to focus by aggregating essential information and providing pivots for projects, topics, people and goals

Interact more productively using integrated collaboration services (on-premises or cloud delivery)

Leverage social information to further improve collaboration with stakeholders

ConvergenceDirect path to cloud by providing familiar user experience, easy interactions with installed clients

Support expanding populations on web/mobile devices as their primary/only client by providing an exceptional user experience at lower cost with a rich, consistent set of capabilities

ContinuityRapidly deploy new releases, shortening time-to-value and to leverage innovative capabilities

Leverage LotusLive-driven improvements to reduce the administration cost for Domino servers

Continue to leverage Notes/Domino as a critical business tool; carry forward and evolve Notes apps

we have started work on the next release of Notes and Domino. We actually passed two internal milestones already ... one we call it concept and one we call it plan ... the plan's already at sort of a high level, it is booked. We know what we want to build in Notes and Domino Next. And these are the conceptual objectives.You'll notice that they map up to things that we talked about with IBM project Vulcan a year ago. So People have asked me a few times today, well, where does Vulcan fit in what you talked about last year versus what you're showing us this year? The answer is, we said it wasn't going to be a product, we said it was a blueprint, and that blueprint is being applied to all of our products including to Notes and Domino.So the three tenets that are here ... innovation, convergence and continuity somewhere. You know, we want to continue to deliver innovation in the end user experience. We want focus on personal productivity in the context of the overall Notes experience. We've been kind of, in some ways, so focused on collaboration social that we've lost a little bit of thinking well, how can I make this individual user more productive that will therefore make them more of a contributor to the social business?In some ways, that's why I really like the Few Clicks solution that we just took a look at because it's focused on how the that user going to be more productive, how are they going to get away from e-mail whack a mole and get into a world where they're really being contributors and not just consumers of information in the environment?We're going to continue to look at how we can effect consumability of the Notes Client, especially, how do we get deployments out there much more rapidly of new releases, make them much more performant integrated in your environment. And then convergence is about the thought of extending that to how do I continue to deliver a great experience to Lotus i-Notes users on the web and to the mobile users using Notes Traveler. So I want that experience to be consistent converge across all of the device types and interfaces.And then, of course, continuity, the hallmark of the Notes Domino product line now for 21 years, we're going to continue to provide all the forward and backward compatibility we ever have, but we're going to do it in a way that lets you leverage that, whether it's in LotusLive Notes or whether it's in premises environment ... and do it in a way that allows you to do rapid deployment and consumption of the environment.

Notes/Domino Next
Conceptual objectives

InnovationImprove end-user ability to focus by aggregating essential information and providing pivots for projects, topics, people and goals

Interact more productively using integrated collaboration services (on-premises or cloud delivery)

Leverage social information to further improve collaboration with stakeholders

ConvergenceDirect path to cloud by providing familiar user experience, easy interactions with installed clients

Support expanding populations on web/mobile devices as their primary/only client by providing an exceptional user experience at lower cost with a rich, consistent set of capabilities

ContinuityRapidly deploy new releases, shortening time-to-value and to leverage innovative capabilities

Leverage LotusLive-driven improvements to reduce the administration cost for Domino servers

Continue to leverage Notes/Domino as a critical business tool; carry forward and evolve Notes apps

BETA in 2011, via LotusLive Labs; Planned for delivery in 2012 Beta, as Doug Cox said this morning, will be initially on LotusLive labs this year, and then the release the planned for delivery some time in 2012.

Notes Next

IBM Project Vulcan user experience

Activity stream, ShareBox, other consistent componentry

Increased focus on consumability and deployment

Web and mobile experiences accelerate

XPages, XPages, Xpages

Around the Notes Client, we saw the demo this morning, so this is ground I don't need to tread too deeply on, but taking the project Vulcan user experience, implementing it within the context of Notes so that you have access to the activity stream, the concepts of in stream editing and the share box. Again, an increased focus on confirmability, making this just the easiest client release or web interface release that we deploy either way that you go in your environment.And then XPages, XPages, XPages ... both from a client perspective and then, of course, from a developer perspective as well. There we go.

What changes next

Focus on making individual users more productive in order to enhance overall collaborationThe inbox is no longer the center of gravity for collaboration

Cloudan integral part of delivery model; absorb complexity

Web/mobile are primary user experiences

Productivity tools move to background,
collaboration around content moves to center

So what's going to change when we ship the next release? This focus on making users more productive. That is a little different. We haven't done that in a while. We certainly did with version 8, focus on the user experience, but we've got to focus now on the productivity element.Another piece of the equation we've got to focus on ... Cloud as an integral delivery model. It's not just an adjunct, Cloud the part of the overall equation. And many of you are going to operate in hybrid environments. We expect that to be the norm. We've engineered for it. We're unique in that way. And we're going to continue to emphasize that.We're going to absorb that complexity. We're going to do that ... the whole point of LotusLive Notes is so that you don't have to operate these systems, we do them for you.Web and mobile as primary user experiences. So, you know, in the past, we'd start by building the really, really awesome Notes Client and then we would go do a really great job on Lotus i-Notes, and then we would go do a really, really great job on Lotus Notes Traveler. We're doing them simultaneously. We're not going to do them sequentially. We have to deliver web and mobile pass equal partners in the overall equation.And then last, we think that especially as you see things like LotusLive Symphony evolve, the productivity tool as a piece of the tool kit moves more to the background and the collaboration around content, the content itself that has the value, moves more to the front and center.

What doesn't change next

All your Notes apps continue to runOpportunities to transition to XPages

Core architecture for Notes/Domino

Commitment to interoperability, flexibility, low TCO

Linked value across IBM collaboration portfolio

what doesn't change in the next release ... all your Notes apps continue to run. That's not going to change. There's opportunities to transition to XPages. We still think that's a really smart opportunity for you to pursue. Whether in an automated way or on your own, you definitely want to look at how those apps play in a modern world using tools that can be built from any application developer in the mainstream today.Our core architecture, not going to change. We've built a great architecture, it continues to evolve. I don't think ... and I said it on my blog when with shipped LotusLive Notes, I don't think 25 years ago when they conceived Notes that the team that built the product was really thinking someday it's going to be software as a service, you're going to be able to go to this Cloud environment and it's just going to work ... but it does. And it's incredible engineering. The team is very talented at taking that core architecture forward.Our commitments to interoperability, flexibility and TCO, those don't go away. Our strong partner ecosystem, many of you in the room or downstairs or here at the conference, that doesn't change. And then the linked value across the entire IBM collaboration solutions portfolio ... that definitely doesn't change, and we've got more to do in that area as well.

Call to Action

If you have not already, upgrade to Notes/Domino 8.5.2

Consider money-saving, fast-acting benefits of Lotus Symphony and Lotus Protector family

Evaluate LotusLive Notes+Engage for the best in cloud collaboration

Learn XPages

Things I want you to walk out of this session thinking about. If you haven't already, upgrade to Notes Domino 8.52. Many of you have. It's a very, very solid release, very stable in your environments. Has some great features that we've done incrementally over the last couple of years.If you haven't looked at them, consider money-saving and fast acting benefits, it sounds like a drug commercial, sorry ... fast acting ... I probably shouldn't go further on that ... of Lotus Symphony and Lotus Protector. I was talking to a customer the other day and looking at just the amount of money they're saving by deploying in pockets Lotus Symphony. Not everywhere in their organization, and that's okay ... but just in pockets ... not having to buy office productivity tools ... great savings for themEvaluate, LotusLive plus engage has a complete Cloud collaboration solution ... learn XPages if you haven't already, if you are a developer ... help us plan by visiting the meet the developer labs and the usability labs. There's a whole bunch of surveys and consumerability tests and UX(?) tests that you can help us out with this week.

Thank you!

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