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IBM roadmap for messaging and social platform - updated Sep 1 2015


IBM sent an email to business partners with the IBM Roadmap for Messaging and Social Platform. I was hoping  to summarize it for you and give a link but I was hit with this:

When you click "I agree" you agree that this information

  • will not be disclosed to anyone inside your company without a demonstrated business need to know as they market or support IBM products.
  • will not be disclosed to any party outside your company without express permission from IBM
This information is intended for IBM Business Partner information and is not to be shared with customers or prospects unless approved by IBM. Contact your local IBM representative if seeking approval to share with others outside of your organization

So all I can do is give you the link and if you are a business partner then you will be able to see it. Or track down your IBM rep to help out?

UPDATE: After reading this I think there are enough public presentations from user groups and other events to piece it together.  Some can be found in the IBM Connect sessions database  I aggregate each year.   The above video from MWLUG 2015 by Kramer Reeves may happen to contain a lot of the same information
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    On Tuesday, September 8th, 2015   by Chris Miller        

Top 10 reasons to choose IBM SmartCloud for Social Business over Microsoft Office 365

IBM has released Top 10 reasons to choose IBM SmartCloud for Social Business over Microsoft Office 365 whitepaper. Here are some highlights.
IBM SmartCloud versus Office 365
Documents from either IBM Connections or SmartCloud for Social Business which are synced to your laptop or mobile device are encrypted. Microsoft’s offline files are not encrypted which may result in the loss of confidential information if your device is lost or stolen.

This is generally a large requirement by organizations. I would not be surprised to see them address this though.
An internal IBM study showed that people located information 32% more quickly using tags because tags allow us to express relationships that are not readily apparent in the content. An Office 365 search would only return items that match the searched text, tagged items are not returned in the results. Tagged items can only be located by browsing a tag cloud

That can be a great selling point as long as users are actually tagging items.

From there I am not too sure about some of the others as organizations just don't seem to care. I am being honest in saying that when we talk to companies that are looking at Office 365 for just mail, the rest of this are things that just come along with mail. They will still use Domino for apps for a long time to come, but it is the mail experience driving the change.  Hopefully IBM Mail Next will help in that area.

Get you hands on the Top 10 reasons to choose IBM SmartCloud for Social Business over Microsoft Office 365 whitepaper (seems you have to be a partner to get it after some digging, I am looking for a public link)
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    On Tuesday, September 16th, 2014   by Chris Miller        

IBM SmartCloud for SocialBusiness changing IP address in June 2014

IBM has announced they will be changing IP addresses for the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business on or before June 21 2014.
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business logo

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    On Monday, May 5th, 2014   by Chris Miller        

IBM SmartCloud for Social Business enhancements for May 2014

IBM is enhancing SmartCloud for Social Business in May 2014 to include social and mobile, Docs, and Notes enhancements detailed below.
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business logo


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    On Thursday, May 1st, 2014   by Chris Miller        

IBM SmartCloud for Social Business enhancements for March 2014

IBM is enhancing SmartCloud for Social Business in March 2014 to include Sametime with SAML support, IBM Docs enhancements, also web users and Notes user enhancements.
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business logo

IBM Sametime chat with SAML support is coming
If your organization uses federated identity management handled by Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), you can now download and chat using a stand-alone Sametime Connect client and log in with your organization's authentication credentials

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    On Wednesday, March 5th, 2014   by Chris Miller        

The IBM SmartCloud Notes URL is interesting

While showing a customer the benefits of hosting with Connectria the topic of IBM SmartCloud Notes came up. While searching for the site that has the product information for IBM SmartCloud Notes I discovered a very strange URL

IBM SmartCloud Notes

I know this isn't breaking news about their recent eighth enhancement, but that is just a rather strange URL path to help easily find and promote the product.  I started the hunt looking for
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    On Thursday, September 5th, 2013   by Chris Miller        

Patterns in achieving social business success



What are patterns and how are they used to achieve social business success?  Heck I have no clue what that even means much rather what I get from this IBM whitepaper another partner and IBM India was kind enough to make available on SlideShare.
Patterns in Achieving Social Business


After reading it I surmise that patterns is another word for process that IBM services wraps engagements around according to a recent webcast.  There are six areas of social business pattern that IBM decided should be identified in your organization:
  • Finding expertise
  • Gaining external customer insights
  • Increasing knowledge sharing
  • Improving recruiting and on-boarding
  • Managing mergers and acquisitions
  • Enabling and improving workplace safety

A few of those will not fit most small and medium business patterns (processes). But the ones that do rely on you simply examining how, if any, processes can be streamlined by better sharing of information. That should simplify it for you.

You can fill out the form on the IBM website to get the Patterns in achieving social business success by leading and powering organizations for free or get it here if you are an IBM Business Partner.
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    On Monday, July 1st, 2013   by Chris Miller