Posts Tagged ‘ibm connections’

IBM released today the IBM Connection Suite that combines the features and functions of: IBM Connections IBM Sametime Advanced IBM Sametime SUT Lite Lotus Quickr FileNet There are some nice videos on the capabilities which really start to see some of the Project Northstar coming to fruition. Now, there is nothing that you couldn’t do […]

My brother in law, Aaron Keller, penned a nice article on Pinterest and Twitter.  Now, he is a design type and does all things great in branding so I would expect nothing less from the man.  Nothing that I guess one hasn’t thought about for a while but what this has raised is the capabilities […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at his blog for this. IBM’s Connections products have supported widgets for a while.  IBM’s WebSphere Portal also has a widget portlet. That means you can write a widget that works on many platforms. I haven’t seen a lot of that until now.  Collaboration Factory has created several widgets that work […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at a Portal to a Portal Blog for this. Copy Search conversion tools to local nodes to enable full indexing of data. The Search conversion tools make it possible to index Files and Wiki attachments. However, the conversion tools are initially deployed on a network share so you must copy them to each […]

IBM Connections continues to be a hot topic with clients.  This past weekend IBM released the latest version of Connections – 3.0.1.1.  In this latest release, IBM has added support for Redhat EL 6.1, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 9, and Sametime 8.5.2.  There also lots of fixes included. In addition, IBM just uploaded a newer […]

Buried in some of the many announcements IBM puts out on a weekly basis, you will find that they just changed the entitlements for two of their baseline portal packages.  Both Portal Enable and Portal Extend now include the ability to use the profiles and file services from the social networking tool, IBM Connections.  Here’s […]

  What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution […]

  What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution […]

So I’ve been very interested in deeper integration between Portal and Connections. That means that the beta out on Community Pages is of particular importance.  Jon Brown of the Connections team and Stefan Liesch of Portal and Content team fame gave the presentation. IBM has seen the concept of a social portal evolve.  Social Portal […]

IBM Connections Auditing and Compliance Infrastructure I attended a session with Rene Schimmer, Offering Manager, IBM on Connections auditing and compliance.  As social business continues to grow and become the norm, auditing and compliance becomes more critical, especially in certain industries that are subject to government regulations. Social Business and Compliance There are quite a […]

Every now and again either I, Mark Polly, or Jonathan Distad hit the topic of collaboration and whether there is value in collaboration tools or not.  I’ve heard plenty of detractors or at least those who question it.  (not necessarily a bad thing).  Anyway, Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) pointed me to this article about what […]

IBM Connections has consistently grown with the market place but similarly with people who look at Sametime 8.5.x with some weariness they look at Connections as an administration nightmare.  It can be if you are not familiar with Websphere Application Server (WAS) and some command line trickery.  That has been solved by the TimeToAct group. […]