Connect 2016: Insights from IBM Connect (January 31 - February 3) Insight #1: IBM’s mobile collaboration strategy. To be competitive in a mobile world, organizations need an all-embracing collaboration strategy.

1. Insights from IBM Connect
January 31 - February 3
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2. IBM’s mobile
collaboration strategy.
Insight #1
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3. IBM’s mobile collaboration strategy.
To be competitive in a mobile world, organizations
need an all-embracing collaboration strategy.
Collaboration
• Create a first-class
collaboration experience
for leading tablets and
smartphones.
• Provide seamless integration
among Employee Self Service
(ESS) apps.
Security
• Make sure the experience
seamlessly integrates with
an advanced mobile security
solution.
• Ensure support for leading
mobile device management
solutions.
Support
• Get consistent platform support
across ESS mobile apps.
• Develop a consistent method
to determine new mobile
platforms.
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4. A social way to work.
Insight #2
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A social way to work.
There’s no need to use several different platforms to
communicate at work. IBM Connections allows you to work
socially with one easy-to-deploy, simplified package.
IBM Verse
An intuitive email solution that
understands the user, based
on a user-designed format and
social analytics that have been
optimized for desktop and
mobile devices.
IBM Connections
This leading business social
network platform allows your
organization to engage the right
employees, accelerate innovation
and deliver results.
IBM Connections Chat
As a full-featured instant
messaging service on the
IBM Cloud, Connections
Chat provides a quick way to
communicate with your network
of peers and subject matter
experts.
Baan Slavens,
Collaboration Solutions Senior Offering Manager,
IBM
Different programs come
together at the touch of a finger.

6. IBM Verse: A look into the future.
Insight #3
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IBM Verse: A look into the future.
Commitments for UI
Enhancements:
• Box.com integration
• 3rd party UI integration via
programmable URLs
• Easier meeting invitation creation
• Consistent look/feel in calendar
• Support for nested folders while
attaching a link to an item in Files
• Offline (GA)
• Efficient use of screen space
• Change default email font
Candidates for Continued Innovation:
• Additional mail “triage” actions while offline
• Attachment management while working
offline
• Assistance for easily introducing significant
new features in Verse
• Assistance for easily introducing significant
new features in Verse
• Support for allowing multiple people per
“people bubble” in the “Important to Me” bar
• Seamless contact information across IBM
Connections Cloud services
• Filter to see unread messages only
• Interface to retain user settings
• Calendar alarms/alerts
• Resize message pane
• Message list density control
• Enhanced chat presence/awareness
Themes Around
Continued Innovation:
• Watson as your “Personal
Assistant”- personalized,
automatically organized inbox
and suggested actions based
on past behavior
• Administrative assistant access
to calendar
• Third-party integration using
public APIs (ongoing)
• Make my inbox more
“actionable” (NA/WFA)
Learn more about IBM Verse
Lily Ryzebol,
Director,
IBM Verse, Notes and Notes web
“Users want to deal with their calendar in context, with
more clarity. Calendar Inbox is the answer to that.”

8. A highly engaged
workforce means
putting employees first.
Insight #4
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Facilitate a highly engaged workforce by putting employees first.
IBM Connections helps businesses improve collaboration. The
solution helps one collaboration and ideation officer, April Lewis
at Oak Ridge National Labs, coordinate with 325 scientists
working remotely on a single project. IBM Connections allows
this group to chat, ideate, and train together. And collaborating
more efficiently saves money.
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10. The best of collaboration and learning:
IBM Connections, Portals and Kenexa
LCMS, together in one social intranet.
Insight #5
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The best of collaboration and learning:
IBM Connections, Portals and Kenexa LCMS, together in one social intranet.
To facilitate training for its 2018
strategy, Swiss specialty-chemical
company Sika AG revisited its
e-training structure. With IBM
Kenexa and IBM Connections, the
organization was able to integrate
a traditional learning management
system with its new social intranet—
elevating the knowledge level of the
whole organization.
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12. This year’s IBM Connect brought business leaders
together to discuss how to navigate today’s
integrated digital world. IBM put a lot of new
functionality into its suite of tools in 2015. For 2016,
IBM plans advancements in social, digital experience,
mobile, and application development.
Get more information about
IBM Social Business offerings.
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