IBM Notes and Domino 9.x is rich in social capabilities. How much smarter could you be working ? Learn how IBM can help you plan your migration and help you to leverage the new features to the max!

1. The Cool Features of IBM® Notes® and Domino 9®
Social Edition® - Yours to Enjoy
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2. Make the move to Social Edition
With the IBM Notes and Domino 8.0 end of
support date just a little over 6 months from
now (end of April 2015), it's a great time to
plan your migration to the new cool social
edition capabilities of version 9.x !
IBM Notes and Domino 9.0 delivers significant new capabilities to help
you create a more effective workforce. The software helps users work
efficiently from virtually anywhere, at any time, with on-demand access to
the people and information they need. By bringing social collaboration
and business applications together, IBM Notes and Domino can help you
accelerate operations, improve decision-making and increase
productivity. And in IBM Domino 9.0.1, the IBM Domino server installer is
now fully accessible for employees with impaired vision.
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3. Check out the great features of Notes and
Domino 9.0
 What's New in IBM Notes 9.0 Social Edition? http://ow.ly/CJn9O
 What's New in IBM Notes 9.0.1 Social Edition? http://ow.ly/CJnkO
 What's new in IBM Domino 9.0 Social Edition? http://ow.ly/CJnwo
 What's new in IBM Domino 9.0.1 Social Edition? http://ow.ly/CJnI1
“Social Mail” is the evolution of messaging to include social
capabilities...delivered in the context of where you choose to work
See the Notes 9 demo here: http://ow.ly/CJnRS
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4. What Next?
Is your business ready for new and more
productive ways of achieving and succeeding with
Notes and Domino 9? Change introduces risk,
and therefore preparation and planning is key to a
successful migration, and for achieving stability in
the environment after 'go live' completion.
Note: If you are running a release of Notes/Domino prior to 8.0, you
should upgrade to at least Notes/Domino 8.0 before installing and
upgrading to release 9.0. Upgrading from prior versions may work but is
not tested or officially supported.
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5. What should you be thinking about?
 Is you infrastructure ready for Notes and Domino 9?
 Will the integrated tools and products in your
environment remain compatible without modifications?
 Will you be able to influence your end users to quickly adopt to new
ways of working?
 How can you make sure you leverage all the new functionality
appropriate to your unique environment?
 What are the business and cost implications of encountering issues
or having prolonged outages during migration?
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 How can you minimize the risks?
 Could your technical team thrive by working alongside a virtual team
member from IBM who has been through the ND9 migration process
a number of times already?
These are all considerations for any software migration.

6. Get a Trusted Experienced IBM Team
To help get you to this latest exciting version of
Notes and Domino, take a moment to investigate
why you should consider engaging with the IBM
Software Accelerated Value Program (AVP) for
migration preparation and planning activities.
A single point of contact, (Accelerated Value Leader), helps to make
sure your environment is ready and robust, anticipates potential issues
and provides steps to avoid them, closes your team's skills gaps
through knowledge transfer, and opens the door for your end users see
the real benefits of leveraging new product features. This IBM Service
prides itself on the trusted relationships it has built with its customers
worldwide for almost 20 years, and importantly, continues to provide
guidance services post migration in order to help you maintain a steady
state environment and get maximum value from the products your
business relies on.
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7. The IBM Software Accelerated Value Program
Have an IBM single point of contact drive your issues and requests inside
IBM, gain timely access to IBM experts, participate in personalized
knowledge sharing sessions, receive priority handling of issues, maximize
product potential by working smarter through guidance, get the heads up
on potential issues so that you can carry out preventive actions.
An independent study concluded that the annual quantified benefits of the IBM Software
Accelerated Value program averages 5.3 times its costs - meaning you can achieve rapid
pay back from Program benefits.
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8. Be Successful with your IBM Software
Take this exciting leap of transition to Notes and Domino 9.
Make it soon, and make it successful.
Want to learn more about IBM AVP? Email us: software_accelerated_value@us.ibm.com
or visit: www.ibm.com/software/support/acceleratedvalue/
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