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Tuesday 22 March 2011

IBM Collaboration UKI TechJams for 2011

IBM Collaboration Solutions TechJam is a one day event aimed at delivering in-depth technical sessions across the Collaborations Solutions portfolio.

This event is aimed at a technical audience and is ideal for system administrators, developers, architects and technical management who want to understand the capability and integration that are delivered across the IBM Software portfolio.

Two dates are set so far, 5th April and 20th May – both in Lotus Park in Staines – but more dates and locations will be added soon. If you’d like to attend, add a comment and I’ll give you a contact e-mail address.

Agenda
  • IBM Connections 3.0 – Customising and Extending - Rob Thatcher
    You have installed IBM Connections 3.0, and it is running smoothly – congratulations. Your colleagues have an adoption plan - good news. The early adopters are primed and ready! BUT you still need to add the Corporate branding, you still need to add extra fields to profiles, and you need to add some links to other corporate sites! This session covers these Customisation and Extension issues to provide tailored Connections deployments.
  • Delivering Enterprise Messaging and Social Business solutions via the IBM Cloud - Thomas McErlean
    This session will focus on IBM's Messaging and Collaboration solutions in the cloud, covering the multi-tenant version of LotusLive Notes for a hybrid deployment, LotusLive Engage integration options, LotusLive partner ecosystem and future developments. Learn how you can extend your current messaging infrastructure to support users and new features efficiently via the IBM cloud, and extend collaboration beyond your firewall securely.
  • IBM Exceptional Web Experiences - What's new and what's to come... - Chris Moore
    Exceptional Web Experiences is something every client and business partner what to deliver. It could be an intranet solution, enabling your employees to collaborate and work with systems they use on a daily basis. It could be a website for your end customers, delivering capabilities that improve customer loyalty and allow them to use their services, on any device. This session will demonstrate what is new with IBM Websphere Portal and the IBM Customer Experience Suite, what is to come with Project Northstar.
  • Doing Social Business from Mobile Devices - Andy Porter
    This session will discuss the IBM strategy for mobile collaboration. Find out the latest information on how the Lotus product portfolio supports mobile. The session will cover the advancements in mobile device support and new features for Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Mobile Connect, Lotus Expeditor, and WebSphere Portal. Come see how these offerings can lead to a powerful mobile enablement of your employees.
  • Communication and Collaboration, friends or foes? - Jon Crouch
    As we see the phrase Unified Communications thrown about by all the Collaboration and Telephony vendors what does it mean to you and what do you do about it? This session will highlight the options available today and how you can start to take simple steps down the road to UC. Understanding IBM's position and solutions in the market to enable you to make informed decisions.
  • Speaker Panel Q&A
If you are an IBM Business Partner we’d love to see you there, but the entry fee is to escort a customer whom you have invited. IBM customers can attend free-of-charge.