Lotus® Symphony™ 3: One Million Reasons to Give it a try

Session Number: ID 107
Lotus® Symphony™ 3: One
Million Reasons to Give it a try

Eric Otchet
Product Manager
eotchet@us.ibm.com
Cindy Kou
Development Manager
kouyuxin@cn.ibm.com
© 2012 IBM Corporation

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2 | © 2012 IBM Corporation

Agenda

■ Lotus Symphony Overview

■ What's New in Symphony 3.0.1

■ Demo

■ Union Pacific Railroad Symphony Deployment

■ Apache and the OpenOffice Project

■ Demo

■ IBM Docs™ and Roadmap

■ Questions

Lotus Symphony 3 software—flexibility and choice

Freedom to create Freedom to choose
An open, extensible programming model Desktop operating system (Microsoft
based on open source code Windows®, Linux®, Mac OS®)
Support for multiple file formats and the Content management systems
ability to export to Adobe Portable
Document Format® (PDF) files Cloud environments

Ability to easily interchange documents Programming languages and environment
with Microsoft Office® and OpenOffice Collaboration platforms (email, social,
users unified communications)
File formats (vendor specific vs. open
standards based)

Don't let a tool that provides commodity function dictate your
entire desktop strategy and choice of other applications
| © 2012 IBM Corporation

It’s about value

Do most of your users
use enough of the
Does your office suite's features to
productivity suite justify the license cost?
carry a high cost for
software licenses?

IBM Lotus®
Symphony™ 3 software
provides the features
Does the suite provide most people need
high value for your at no charge—
organization for the why pay more?
amount you are paying?


Expensive upgrades

What new value can Will the new ribbon
Microsoft Office 2010® interface in Microsoft
software provide for Office 2010 software
your organization incur expensive
versus the Microsoft retraining costs for
Office 2003 suite? your users?

The Lotus Symphony 3 user interface will be familiar to many
users. Its context-sensitive toolbars and sidebars make it easy to
do common tasks.

Make the change to Lotus Symphony 3 software—and you can save
on software licensing costs at the same time.


Featured on IBM.com


Lotus Symphony 3 software can meet the needs of
almost all users in an organization


Lotus Symphony 3 software supports many IBM
strategic initiatives

Support for open Support for an open Support for open Increased value of IBM
standards/platform choice programming model source software products that include
Lotus Symphony software
− Lotus Symphony software supports − Lotus Symphony − Lotus Symphony software
the Open Document Format software is based on is based on – IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM
Java and Eclipse OpenOffice®.org Lotus Domino® software
− Lotus Symphony software supports technology
Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac − IBM contributes to the – IBM LotusLive™ software
OS technology community

Lotus Symphony 3


Agenda



■ Demo



■ Demo

■ IBM Docs and Roadmap

■ Questions

New in Symphony 3.0.1
■ Symphony 3.0.1 includes all
fixpacks since Symphony 3.0
was released
─ 1 Million row support added
to spreadsheets
─ Home page design with
active content – recent files
─ Chart types
─ Speaker notes view
─ IBM Connections plugin
─ Updated LotusLive plugin


IBM Lotus Symphony Mobile Viewers
Available for Android® Available for iOS® devices
devices and Tablets and Tablets


New IBM Connections ® Plugin
Profiles Activities Files

Blog


Agenda



■ Demo



■ Demo


■ Questions

Union Pacific Railroad Deployment Of Lotus Symphony

Yvette Butler
Project Engineer
Union Pacific Railroad

The Company-Union Pacific Railroad

Fortune 200 transportation and logistics company

25,000 customers, 43,500 employees
The Collaboration Team

Support technology,
productivity, collaboration

The Goals

Realize cost savings

Discover productivity need


The Process
●
Pilot with department representatives
●
Adjust and enhance Symphony package
●
Phase I: Fun Symphony install
●
Phase II: Aggressive MSOffice un-install

The Advice
● Engage employee participation during transition
● Identify easy saturation points


Wherever you find us, we're working smarter.
Union Pacific Railroad uses Lotus Symphony


Agenda



■ Demo


■ Demo


■ Questions


Some Marketplace History

Oracle buys Sun IBM Ships IBM working in
Attempts to Symphony the community
monetize OO Version based on on Apache OO.
1st Symphony
investments the OO 3.x Announces
release ships
codestream. donation of
100k downloads OO community
Major dev Symphony code
a day unhappy
investment to the project

October Apr Nov
2008-
2010 2011 2011
2009

April Nov Jul
Sep
2009 2010 2011
2007

Multiple releases LibreOffice FORK Oracle announces IBM contributes
of Symphony is formed and shut down of the OO to AOO with
based on the OO splits from OO business. Donates expert team in
1.x codebase community the code to the China and
Apache Software Germany. Current
Foundation focus is Apache
3.4 Release,
licensed as AL2.


Apache OpenOffice New News

■ We intend to stop developing Lotus Symphony as a
fork of the OpenOffice.org code
■ We intend to move our resources and Symphony
code into the Apache OpenOffice community.
■ We intend to continue our development work on
new features, updates and new releases working in
the community.
■ As part of this effort we were also fortunate to add
some very skilled resources who have been working
on the OpenOffice.org code for many years to our
team.
■ They are based in Hamburg Germany and are
working with our resources in Beijing and the U.S. to
advance the Apache OpenOffice Project.

The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal
obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products
may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future
features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.

Apache OpenOffice the IBM Edition *
* Final Naming subject to change.

Installer

IBM Product
Extensions
Lotus Notes
AOO
Quickr
Untouched
Connections
IBM Docs
DB2
Others

■ Apache OpenOffice the IBM Edition is planned to replace Lotus Symphony standalone
─ We intend to continue support for Symphony 3.0.1 embedded in Notes 8.5.x
■ We intend to ship Extensions that integrate AOO with our portfolio that are packaged as “the IBM Edition”
■ First release targeted for mid year 2012
The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code
or functionality. Information about potential future products may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing
of any future features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. 23 | © 2012 IBM Corporation

Apache OpenOffice the IBM Edition - Value

■ IBM resources and code
contribute to the Community
■ Common Extension model
for 3rd parties
■ IBM support for Notes
customers
■ Removes Symphony as
competitor to OpenOffice
■ Focus on Enterprise
customer requirements
■ Code Licensed under
Apache V2 open source Current Milestone:
Apache OpenOffice 3.4 for Developers


OpenOffice+OpenSocial = Social Documents
■ Share your documents
with your social network
■ Request review and
comment
■ Integrates your social
network with your
document authoring
process
■ Proposed future feature
for Apache OpenOffice


Agenda



■ Demo


■ Demo


■ Questions


Proposed New Look for Apache OpenOffice Version 4


Agenda



■ Demo


■ Demo


■ Questions


IBM Docs: More than editors through a browser
Web-based collaborative editors for creating, sharing and collaboratively authoring word processor
documents, spreadsheets and presentations

✔ Real-time co-editing
✔ Author presence awareness
✔ Live sections
✔ Commenting & discussions
✔ Assignment and notifications
✔ Revision management
✔ Task management
✔ Attention management

Designed to support both IBM SaaS offerings like IBM
SmartCloud as well as private cloud implementation in
customers' data centers.


Social Documents
■ Leverage the best of IBM Symphony and the best of community
■ IBM contributes Symphony code base into Apache OpenOffice commits resources
■ IBM Docs targeted for release in 2012

Portfolio addresses broad
Portfolio addresses broad
spectrum of user needs in
spectrum of user needs in
organizations
organizations

The information mentioned regarding potential future
products is not a commitment, promise, or legal
obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality.
Information about potential future products may not be
incorporated into any contract. The development,
release, and timing of any future features or
functionality described for our products remains at our
sole discretion. 32 | © 2012 IBM Corporation

Designs subject to change

IBM Docs five year vision

● Social office productivity
● Comprehensive feature set
● Extensive integration into IBM
portfolio
● Not documents, but document-driven
applications
● Rich data services

● Web 2.0 style composite

document architecture
● Access anywhere

The information mentioned regarding potential future products is not a commitment, promise, or legal
obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Information about potential future products
may not be incorporated into any contract. The development, release, and timing of any future
features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.

Symphony 3 Desktop – Roadmap

1H 2012 2H 2012 1H 2013 2H 2013

Symphony 3.0.1
LS
Jan 2012
1 hr experience
st

1M rows
New Charts
Speaker notes
Symphony Symphony Symphony
3.0.1 3.0.1 3.0.1
FP FP FP

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

Apache OpenOffice Roadmap

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Feature+Planning © 2012 IBM Corporation
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Lotus Symphony 3 Quickstart

Is a worldwide services offering from IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL)

Provides five days of onsite assistance over a four-week period

Helps enables a small team of up to 20 business users to evaluate the
benefits and features of Lotus Symphony software within the customer’s
organization

Provides the tools, techniques and approaches to help successfully run a pilot
leading to enterprise adoption

Helps gain an understanding of how existing files you use across your business
will continue to work in Lotus Symphony software

Includes Lotus Symphony multimedia library for use in the Quickstart

Planned Extensions to support Apache OpenOffice | © 2012 IBM Corporation

Make your move today!

Determine your actual software licensing costs for Microsoft Office applications

Decide which users are not getting maximum value from Microsoft Office technology

Determine your potential savings with the Lotus Symphony cost savings calculator

Take advantage of a Lotus Symphony Quickstart solution from IBM Software Services
for Lotus

Go download the code and try—it's available at no charge at
http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/ !


Questions ?


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