XPages Business Apps

Joris SteppeSenior Consultant – EASI

j.steppe@easi.net

About Me

• Joris Steppe• 12 years Lotus Notes experience• 2001: Notes/Administrator trainer• 2004: Lotus Domino Developer• Now: Senior Developer @ EASI• EASIConnect host

About EASI

• IBM Premier Business Partner• Active in Belgium, Luxembourg and France• Founded 1999, 130 employees• Application Development

– Techs: Notes/Domino, RPG/Cobol, Win/Webdev– Software editor & Custom devs

• Infrastructure– Techs: Notes/Domino, Power, Blade– On prem & cloud

Agenda

• Intro• Demo

– Group Calendar– Worksite Management– Extranet– Corporate Portal– WhoIsWho

• Conclusion• Q&A

Introduction

• Purpose– Not another technical session

• Sorry geeks – Focus on the business added value– Based on real applications we developed

• How– Demo of 5 XPages apps– Less slides = more demo

Group Calendar

• Needs:– Consolidated view of team calendars– Based on Lotus Notes calendars– Both graphical and printable– Add/remove person’s calendar easily– Easy to change work week view

Group Calendar

Worksite Management

• Needs:– Extranet for contractors– One tool for all parties– Full cycle mgt: Tender -> Exectution -> Invoice– Easily communicate with company– Export & print data

Extranet

• Needs:– Extranet for members– Retrieve press releases easily– Possibility to forward documents by email– Subscribe to events– Advanced Search

Corporate Portal

• Needs:– Access to corporate apps + App search– User’s favorite apps– Internal news + alerts – Allow users to subscribe to approved RSS feeds

WhoIsWho

• Needs– Easy lookup of person info– Integrated in existing intranet– Dynamic company organigram– Lotus Notes db = backoffice for HR– Click2Call integration with Cisco

Conclusion

• XPages = mature (Ready for business)• More possibilities than traditional webdev• XPages = added value for business• EASI = XPages expert and can help you

Q&A