Agenda für die Lab Tour 2010

The Boston Room

8:30 am
Arrival

8:45 am
Welcome to the Executive Briefing Center
Kara Morris, Briefing Consultant

9:00 am
Lotus Strategy Update
Overall update on the Lotus Strategy
Specific questions - What is happening on Lotus Foundations? In addition, what about Quickr and Traveler on Foundations

10:00 am
IBM Project Vulcan
Server platform discussion: IBM Platform support - what's your strategy regarding p-Series (AIX) and iSeries?

10:45 am
Break

11:00 am
Lotus Notes Update
Key point to touch on:
- Mobility
- What is coming next?
- Why has DAMO (Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook) been abondend ? This causes serious trouble for Foundations users

12:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 pm
Lotus Domino Update
Key point:
- Server Platform discussion: IBM Platform support - what's your strategy regarding p-Series (AIX) and iSeries ?
What is coming next?
Questions around Directory direction:
- What's to come after the abundance of Directory Independence?
- What's the Lotus Directory strategy?
- AD and TDI as problem solver ?

2:00 pm
Lotus Mobility Strategy
How do DNUG members plan for product integration. How is IBM addressing the major players in the market.
What products/what devices.Market overview / "what's in for customers and partners" (Traveler, Lotus.Live integration, Traveler & Foundations plans)
Mobile Strategy
General Lotus Mobile Strategy
Mobility and Project Vulcan
Mobility and LotusLive
Opportunities and future of current releases for
- BlackBerry Client for Lotus Connections
- BlackBerry Client for Lotus Quickr
- BlackBerry Client for Lotus Sametime
- BlackBerry Client for Lotus LiveMeetings

3:00 pm
Break

3:15 pm
Lotus Sametime
Two Key Points:
- Mobility
- Server Platform discussion: IBM Platform support - what's your strategy regarding p-Series (AIX) and iSeries ?

Sametime 8.5 and the problems with customer acceptance - tons of hardware for often non-buisness crititcal application
- Two customers told us:
- too complicated
- environment too expensive
- poor integration of new features and with older versions

What's to come ?
Will we see this strategy more often ?
What about IM on WebSphere ? Same cumbersome implementation ?

4:15 pm
Lotus Quickr
Two Key Points:
- Mobility
- Server Platform discussion: IBM Platform support - what's your strategy regarding p-Series (AIX) and iSeries ?

5:15 pm
Day 1 Summary
Kara Norris, Briefing Consultant