The document provides an overview of IBM Connections 4.0, a social software platform. It highlights new features including enhanced activity streams, profiles, communities, file sharing, analytics and metrics. It also discusses improved mobile access, integration with mail and calendar, and capabilities for bridging internal and external social networks. A demo is offered to illustrate the new features in action. Resources are listed for learning more about IBM Connections 4.0.

1. IBM Connections Overview
Luis Benitez | IBM Connections Product Manager
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2. Who I Am
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3. Keep The Conversation Going
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4. Agenda
● What's New in IBM Connections 4.0
● Sparklers
● Capabilities
● New features and enhancements
● Demo
● Resources and Information
● Where to get more!
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5. Integrated Capabilities of IBM Connections
Home Forums
See what's happening across your social Exchange ideas with, and benefit from
network the expertise of others
Profiles Social Analytics
Find the people you need Discover who and what you don’t know via
recommendations and metrics
Communities
Micro-blogging
Work with people who share common
Reach out for help or share news with
roles and expertise, media gallery and
your social network
ideation
Files Bookmarks
Post, share, and discover documents, Save, share, and discover bookmarks
presentations, images, and more
Blogs
Wikis Present your own ideas, and learn from
Create web content together others
Activities Mobile
Organize your work and tap your Access Connections anywhere, anytime
professional network with mobile & tablet access
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7. Recent Sparklers
IBM is in the leader 2X A Leader! Forrester Wave
quadrant in the Gartner Enterprise Social Platform
Magic Quadrant for and Cloud Strategies for
Social Software in the Online Collaboration
Workplace, August 2011 Software Vendors
Leader in Aragon
Worldwide Market Research Globe for
Leader for 3 years in a Enterprise Social
row! Software
social content analytics mobility cloud
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Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, August 2011
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Source: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011 and The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Strategies for Online Collaboraton Software Vendors, Q3 2012, Forrester Research, Inc
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Source: IDC: Number 1 position from 2009-2011, IDC Worldwide Enterprise Social Software 2011 Vendor Shares, doc #235273, June 2012.
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Source: Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Social Software, Aug 2012
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8. IBM Connections 4.0 – What's New
The Ultimate Social Business Platform
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9. IBM Connections 4.0 Themes
Social Platform Evolution
Enhanced Communities for Teams
Business To Consumer
Mobile & Social Everywhere
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10. Home Reduce
redundant work
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A consolidated, customizable overview of
your social network
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Access status updates and content
updates from your network
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Integrate 3rd party content more easily
via open standards
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Take action on content directly from your
Activity Stream without switching
contexts
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Share and personalize Status Updates
and Files using the share button
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Repost interesting content from your
network in one click
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11. Home Take action on
events
Filter what
you need
Work directly in
the stream
View & Act
on updates
Includes 3rd
party updates
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12. Activity Stream Enable a more
effective workforce
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13. Microblogs Quickly share
information with others
• Easily share files & photos in your status
updates
• Provide feedback in status updates by using a
single click to indicate 'Like'
– See and find others in the organization
who liked the entry
• Search across all status updates to leverage
intellectual capital created in these micro
conversations
• Follow conversations via hashtags
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14. Microblogs Share
from anywhere
Share from
anywhere
BP's / ISVs can add
their own sharing
options
Create public
status update, or
target it to a group
Attach a file (e.g. a
photo) to status
updates
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15. Profiles Respond faster to customers
and make better decisions
Social
Analytics
Synchronized
Person Info
Social
tagging
Org
Structure
Social
Networking
New in 4.0: Recent Custom links
updates view & widgets
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16. Social Analytics Discover popular
topics right now
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Personalized, smart
recommendations for the People,
Community and Content you
should know
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Based on your Profile, tags,
social network, and actions
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Found in Home page, Profiles
and Communities
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New in 4.0! End users can
discover trending topics and
content via the trending widget
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17. Metrics Understand platform &
community adoption
● Reports / dashboard to monitor adoption and
community vitality
● Metrics available at the global or community
level
● Comprehensive set of metrics of all
Connections services and page views
● Flexible drill down and data slicing
● Select timeframe and specific module
● Filter by geography, business unit, or title
● Switch between line, pie chart, table
● More than 100 new reports
● Create custom reports or modify existing ones
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18. Metrics Understand platform &
community adoption
Select how
data should be
grouped
Pick
appropriate
date range
Select apps to
see data for
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19. Connections Mail Access and
respond to email
Access mail
& calendar
Read &
respond to mail
Backend is flexible:
Domino or Exchange
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20. Connections Mail Collaborate in
context
● Primarily focused on key messaging
capabilities
● View and compose mail message
● Including rich text editing, spell check,
etc.
● Signatures, addressing, and directory
search
● Mail badge provides visual indication of
new content
● Embedded Experiences
● IBM Connections files integration
● View one-day calendar and view
individual entries
● Security features
● Ability to launch “primary” messaging
client, iNotes, on Domino systems
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21. Connections Mail Accelerate adoption
of Connections
● Scheduled for delivery in Sept 2012 via
http://catalog.lotus.com
● Back ends scheduled to be supported are:
● Domino 8.5.3+
● Exchange 2007 and 2010
● IBM SmartCloud and other back-end
systems targeted for future releases
● Plan to continue to build out capabilities
over subsequent releases
● Launch alternative client (MS) ● IBM SmartCloud support
● Calendaring editing capabilities ● Tagging
● Free and busy time lookups ● Analytics
● Sametime integration
● Enhanced mobile support
● Much, much, much more!
● Rooms and resources support
● Encrypted mail
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22. Connections Mail Reduce
redundant work
● Demo: Let's see it in action!
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23. Communities Increase sales and
customer retention
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New Recent Updates view to
easily see what's happening in the
community
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Reply to forum threads via email
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New view to manage community
invites
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Map community membership to
LDAP groups
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Expanded Community Overview
field to create a compelling
welcome page
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24. Communities Easily keep track of
the latest updates
Access people
Add a status or & information
content update
Create a
compelling See what's new &
experience take action
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25. Communities Easily find and manage
your invitations
New view to quickly
find community
invites
Easily accept/decline
invites from this view
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26. Communities Safeguard your
community
Updated
Community
delete dialog
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27. Events Schedule and keep
track of team events
Many views
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Provides a central supported (by week,
month, etc)
place to plan and
coordinate team
events
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Accessible from IBM
Lotus Notes® &
Microsoft Outlook®
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Events appear in
activity stream
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Indicate attendance,
follow and comment
for each event Webcal link to add to
your personal
calendar
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28. Files Spend less time
searching for information
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Drag-n-drop to upload
files
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Organize your files
easily by dragging-n-
dropping files into
folders
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Lock / unlock files
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Upload/download
multiple files at a time
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Share/tag/delete
multiple files at a time
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Share folders with
communities
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29. Wikis Improve efficiency across
your organization
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Copy/paste embed code
from other sites directly
into Rich Text editor (e.g.
YouTube, SlideShare, etc.
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Table column widths are
easily adjustable during
table creation
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Drag-to-resize table
columns
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Insert multiple
columns/rows at the same
time
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Support for page anchors
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Copy and paste a row in a
table, preserving row
structure, makes it even
easier to work with tables
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30. Activities Complete projects on
time and meet goals
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Gather the e-mails, IM chats,
documents, messages, and other
information that you and your
team need to accomplish a
project
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Assign To Dos to project
members
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Create Activity Templates to
capture and reuse best practices
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New in 4.0: Easily add or link to
files in an Activity
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New in 4.0: Convert entries into
to-do's
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31. Social Bridging Bring external
content in
● Support collaboration
between suppliers,
customers, and
employees
● Bridge internal/external
collaboration to provide External content can
the correct answers in be discussed internally
a timely manner
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32. Social Bridging Act on information
on other sites
Topic duplicated
in the dialog (e.g.
from YouTube)
Select from your
Pin topic to keep communities and forums
it visible or mark with (type-ahead)
as question
Add comments to
the posting
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33. Social Bridging Monitor Linked
Communities
Both internal and
external communities
appear in the related
community widget
Monitor what's happening
in external communities
from the internal community
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34. Mobile Apps Anytime, anyplace
access to your network
● Access all of your Connections data from
mobile browsers and free native apps
● New Look with Sliding Drawers
● Offline support for Files
● Add Profiles to Device Contacts
● Remote wipe
● Extensibility
● Deploy via email
● Full iPad Support
● Support for SmartCloud Connections
(Android/iOS)
● Download native app from major app
stores: iTunes®, Google Play, Blackberry
App World™
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35. Desktop Plug-In for Connections Bring social to
your end users
Windows Explorer Designs subject to change
■ Lock/unlock files from
desktop See if a file has been locked
and by who
■ Manage Recycle Bin
Microsoft Office
■ New Ribbon integration to
support Files and
Communities
■ Improved User Experience
Lock/unlock files directly
■ Save To Files from desktop
■ Download at
http://ibm.biz/BdxFWF
New search in both Outlook
New Files and and Office with access to
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36. Connections 4.0 Let's see it all!
● It's Demo Time!!!
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37. Updated System Requirements
• Newly supported browsers
– Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
– Firefox 10 ESR, 12, 13
– Chrome 12
• Newly supported client operating systems
– Mac OS X 10.7
– Red Hat Desktop 6
• Newly supported server operating systems
– AIX Power 7.1
– Red Hat Server 6 System z
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38. What Beta Customers Are 'Liking'
“We expect to see significant
“Great value in the
productivity improvements with
integrated experience”
this integrated view”
“With the release of “E-mail and Calendar
Connections 4, I am sure that integration with Exchange
IBM will extend their is pretty cool”
leadership in the Social
Business space”
“Community leaders will have better
insight into what is happening in their
“We see lots of community & can then take action.”
potential with
Connection 4”
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39. Connections 4.0 Highlights
Take action!
Add Like, hashtags, pictures, and
search the stream and reshare all
from your microblog post
Access integrated 3rd party apps
Gather adoption insight from visual,
interactive reports
Bridge social business with the social
web
Engage mobile apps that work the
way you want to
And so much more!!!
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40. Resources and Information
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41. Check out what's new on
IBM Connections 4.0 IBM Connections 4.0 Overview Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=JOynRkYWFSM
Android Demo on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
hY4z3amdt8
iPad Demo on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OPS6dpO_N8o
Check out 4.0 in Greenhouse
http://bit.ly/ConnNextBeta
Sample Community in Greenhouse
http://bit.ly/40Community
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42. External Resources and Information
New IBM Social Landing Page
http://ibm.com/social
Latest product info, research, podcasts, and
more http://www.ibm.com/lotus/connections
IBM Connections Team Blog
http://ibmsocialsoftware.com
Assets, discussion, and opinion about driving
the adoption of IBM social software
http://www.ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness
App/Widget Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com
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43. Social Business
is not an option
– it's a mandate
Social Business Becoming a Social
transformation Business is easy
delivers real with IBM
business value Connections
Start Your Social Business Journey Now!
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