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July 30, 2008
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Eastern (GMT –5)
IBM Lotus Forms
IBM® Lotus® Forms helps clients reduce the time, costs, and problems inherent to manual, paper-based forms processes. IBM®Lotus® Forms Express helps medium sized organizations quickly and easily create interactive Web forms without Web programming skills. Providing far more than simple electronic print and fill capabilities, IBM Lotus Forms aids in streamlining and automating end-to-end business processes that are initiated by forms, creates open-standards-based electronic forms that help reduce paper costs, collect accurate data at the point of capture, improve workflow, and extend existing IT investments.

Join us for this online presentation and learn more about how IBM Lotus Forms improves efficiency and reduces operating costs within your Lotus enterprise. gain insight into the IBM eforms strategy and how it helps you improve your business. See the latest developments with the product and even get an exclusive sneak peek at the next version release, not yet available in Beta.

Presented by:Anthony Fiorot, Product Manager RAD Portal Tools & Business Process Accelerator
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Previously Recorded Presentations
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The sessions below are recorded presentations available to watch online. While they may lack the interactiveness of viewing a session live, you will find the sessions to be informative and easy to watch. Check out these sesions to get more from your existing IT investment and boost collaboration across your enterprise.

Recorded on
April 28, 2008

available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session


IBM Lotus Sametime Strategy and Roadmap: The Future of Unified Communications and Collaboration
With an expansion into a product family, Lotus Sametime continues to break new ground in delivering real-time and unified communications and collaboration capabilities. Learn about the expanded Lotus Sametime family of solutions and the new opportunities they will offer you to find and share information, collaborate in real time, and simplify and unify your communication environment.

Presented by: Dave Marshak
Senior Product Manager Unified Communications and Collaboration


Recorded on
May 12, 2008
available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
The Business Value of Web 2.0 and Enterprise Portal Solutions
This session will highlight how IBM WebSphere Portal enables businesses to more easily respond to business opportunities and challenges by leveraging open standards, re-use of assets through SOA deployments, integrated content and collaborative services, and secure, role-based access to composite applications. Web 2.0 capabilities are transforming the internet, combining content, collaboration and user experiences to dynamic platforms for social interaction. By merging the advantages of Service Oriented Architectures with Web 2.0 capabilities organizations can build and extend portal solutions that attain new levels of business agility and innovation. During this session we'll present the WebSphere Portal Strategy, including new offerings that provided faster time to value. Going beyond the strategy, we'll also explain through real examples how customers are currently leveraging these products to support the business growth and responsiveness. And finally, we'll share the platform vision for the future.

Presented by: Jon Raslawski
Americas SOA & Portal Sales Leader - Lotus Software & WebSphere Portal Sales Leader



Recorded on
May 15, 2008
available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
Lotus Notes and Domino – The Road Ahead
How do we top Lotus Notes and Domino 8? Learn about the roadmap for 2008 and beyond, giving you a glimpse into planned innovations for upcoming releases, intended to reduce the cost of managing and storing your email, offer additional deployment options, and drive continued optimization of employee productivity. We'll describe important initiatives designed to reduce the costs of running Lotus Domino in many areas including security, identity management, directory openness, storage reduction, administration, quality of service, 64 bit support and web application server. You should leave this session with a clear understanding of the Lotus Notes and Domino strategy and future roadmap, to help you plan future deployments.

Presented by:Ed Brill
Business Unit Executive, WW Lotus Notes/Domino Sales Leader


Recorded on
May 19, 2008
available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
IBM Lotus Connections and Mashups
IBM Lotus Connections provides enterprise social software services for organizations looking to leverage their people networks, discover knowledge and expertise, and more effectively execute business tasks. Out of the box Lotus Connections includes people profiles, goal oriented activities, organized communities, social bookmarks, blogs, and a personalized view of all this information in a customizable home page. Combined with the powerful Lotus Mashups product, organizations can complement Connections and customize an environment to match their application development needs. With Lotus Mashups, it's easy to combine information from back end sources into shareable feeds, widgets, and pages. See how Lotus Connections and Lotus Mashups can work together to bring you a tailored social experience.

Presented by: Suzanne Minassian
WPLC Product Manager - Lotus Connections

Nicole Carrier
WPLC Portal Segment Program Director Software Product Manager


Recorded on
May 28, 2008
available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
IBM Lotus Domino Designer
Domino Designer Lead Architect Software Architect : WPLC.Domino based technology
There's a new world of Lotus Domino development on the horizon! This presentation will show how the power of Eclipse revolutionizes developing Lotus Domino applications, with enhancements to the scripting experience and file handling just the beginning of the story. We'll also explore the new features that are being added to help you build better applications for both the IBM Lotus Notes client and the web browser. Come see how Lotus Domino Designer is transforming into an extensible and powerful tool that both remains true to and improves upon its Lotus Domino and rapid development roots.

Presented by: Maureen Leland
Domino Designer Lead Architect, Software Architect : WPLC .Domino based technology


Recorded on
June 9, 2008
available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
IBM Lotus Quickr: Improve Collaboration and Document Management
Miki Banatwala, Lotus Quickr Chief Engineer, and Jelan Heidelberg, Lotus Quickr Offering Manager, present several examples of how to make your Quickr implementation "sing." You get a preview of a work-in-progress article and sample code to provide the much-requested ability to create composite Quick places that include blogs and Wikis. We also show you examples of some custom examples places (no code required) to help you give your users suggestions about what they can do with Quickr. And more...

Presented byMiki Banatwala
Lotus Quickr Chief Engineer, and Jelan Heidelberg, Lotus Quickr Offering Managery



Recorded on
June 23, 2008
available as a
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
Desktop of the Future
Desktops of the future is a strategy discussion in many of your organizations where you want to optimize innovation and cost. IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) brings together industry's richest and broadest collection of collaboration and content services to connect people to business processes and information in an open, standards-based environment. You can start with Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and the integrated Lotus Sametime and then add the Web 2.0 innovations brought to you through Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, and WebSphere Portal. You can run it on Linux (Novell, RedHat, Ubuntu), Windows and Mac OS. This session will focus on the flexibility and choice provided to you and the time-to-value options that you can leverage. We will discuss a user segmentation strategy that empowers heterogeneous environments and supporting migration capabilities available. We will also share best practices based on customer adoption and quick hits in retail branch offices, contact centers across different industries. Come and experience how you can get started on desktop of the future, today, using a security rich and cost effective Microsoft desktop alternative.

Presenters: Dwight Morse
Product Manager, Lotus Notes at IBM

Recorded on
June 30, 2008
Lotusphere comes to You OnDemand session
IBM Lotus Symphony
IBM Lotus Symphony is a set of rich document editors based on the Open Document Format standard available for no charge from the Symphony website -- and included in the IBM Lotus Notes 8 client. You'll learn about the strategy behind Lotus Symphony and how that extends to the Lotus Notes 8 customers, making them a viable alternative to more commonly used office applications. This session will explore the capabilities, roadmap and new features of the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editors. You'll learn more about their benefits and the future plans for this product.

Presented by:Jo Grant
Senior Software Engineer and Eric Otchet, Product Manager Lotus Symphony




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