Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing ... - Lotus Sandbox

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What’s New in 

IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web 

Conferencing (Sametime) and 

IBM Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 

Session #ID404 

Stephen Londergan 

Amy Reuss Caton

AGENDA 

• Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing 

(Sametime) 3.1 

Platform and Feature Enhancements 

Integration with Lotus Notes and Collaboration Center 

Futures 

• Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace (Sametime 

Everyplace) 3.0 

• Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 3.0.1 

Platform and Feature Enhancements 

Futures 

• Integration Approaches with Lotus Workplace 

• Q&A 

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IBM Lotus Instant Messaging & Conferencing 

(Sametime) 3.1 

• Launch theme: “As a critical component of the 

Lotus Workplace, Lotus Instant Messaging and 

Web Conferencing helps organizations, their 

customers, and their business partners be better 

coordinated, better informed, and more agile.” 

• Note the new name! 

• Now positioning vis-à-vis Lotus Workplace, as well 

as On Demand 

• Just 2 release goals: Reach and Customer Sat 

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Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing 3.1 

• Minor Feature Release 

Includes new features and fixes 

New platform support 

Caters largely to existing customers 

• Approx. 200 SPRs fixed 

~100 presence awareness and instant messaging-specific 

~100 Web conferencing-specific 

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Platform Enhancements 

• Server 

"Runs on" Lotus Domino 6.0.2, 6.0.3 

Reverse proxy support 

Dual NIC support 

Serviceability enhancements 

Express install enhancements 

• Client 

Sun JVM support (JVM 1.4) 

Netscape 7 browser support 

New Client Support 

•IBM pSeries – AIX 5.1, 5.2 

•Sun Solaris – Solaris 8 

•RedHat Linux – Linux 7.2 

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Feature Enhancements 

• Web Conferencing 

Ability to set Presence Status from meeting room client (MRC) 

Set DND 

Set customized status ("In a Meeting") 

Presenter Icon - visual awareness on who is presenting 

Button for display of the Meeting Description 

• Presence & Instant Messaging 

Ability to set fix Chat Window 

• 2-Way Chat 

• N_Way Chat 

New "Contact List" Portlet for Websphere Portal 

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Feature Enhancements (Continued) 

• Presence & Instant Messaging (Continued) 

Increased BuddyList size limit -- from 32K to 60K 

Option to store the BuddyList locally 

Pop a message when add person fails 

Force exhaustive search when adding person/group 

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Lotus Notes and Lotus Instant Messaging Integration

Notes/Domino 6.5 Instant Messaging Integration 

Awareness integration at the view/folder level… 

Awareness integration at the form level… 

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Notes/Domino 6.5 Instant Messaging 

Integration 

Instant Messaging Menu Items 

Instant Messaging Toolbar 

•Send Instant Message 

•Start Instant Meeting 

•Add to Buddy List 

•Show Hide Buddy List 

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New Notes/Instant Messaging 

combined icon!!! 

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Instant Messaging Configuration in the Location document 

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Collaboration Center

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What is Collaboration Center?

My Team Workplaces and Portal Views 

Travel Expenses 

Runtime 

wpsadmin69 

04/11/03 

03/28/03 

02/06/03 

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My Team Workplaces and Portal Views 

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Lotus Web Conferencing and Portlet Relationship 

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Lotus Instant Messaging Everyplace (Sametime 

Everyplace) 3.0 

• New clients: 

Java midP 

Palm OS 

PocketPC 

Wider range of WAP devices 

• Domino 6 support 

• Faster Autologin 

• Improved Security 

• Improved user experience 

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Futures – Planned for Lotus Instant Messaging 

and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 6.5.1 

Additional Platform Support 

•• Server Server 

Lotus Domino 6.5.1 6.5.1 

Microsoft Windows 2003 2003 

•• Client Client 

Mozilla browser 

Planned Feature Enhancements 

•• Integration with with Lotus Lotus Notes Notes 6.5.1 6.5.1 and and 

Lotus Lotus Team Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 

6.5.1 6.5.1 

•• Improved Performance & Serviceability 

Bandwidth savings via via throttling 

Presenter's screen screen color color depth depth 

Integrated NSD NSD diagnostics 

collection 

Tivoli WebSeal Reverse Proxy Proxy 

integration capability 

Enhanced LDAP LDAP performance 

Audio conference add-on add-on 

Client filtering filtering capability 

SPR SPR fixes fixes 

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Futures – Planned for Lotus Instant Messaging 

and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 6.5.1 (Cont.) 

Language Support – 

Group 1 

• English 

• Chinese – Traditional 

• Chinese – Simplified 

• French 

• German 

• Italian 

• Japanese 

• Korean 

• Portuguese – Brazilian 

• Spanish 


Group 2 

• Czech 

• Danish 

• Dutch 

• Finnish 

• Greek 

• Hungarian 

• Norwegian – Bokmal 

• Polish 

• Portuguese 

• Russian 

• Swedish 

• Turkish 


Group 3 

• Albanian 

• Bulgarian 

• Belarusian 

• Catalan 

• Croatian 

• Romanian 

• Serbian – Latin 

• Slovak 

• Slovenian 

• Thai Thai 

• Ukrainian 

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Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 3.0.1 

• Maintenance Release 

Includes new features and fixes 

New platform support 

New languages support 

Caters largely to existing customers 

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Platform and Language Enhancements 

• Platforms/Configurations/Languages 

Runs on Lotus Domino 5.0.12 

Now includes support for Lotus Domino partitioned server 

New Language Support 

• Russian 

• Polish 

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Feature Enhancements 

• Administrative Enhancements/Fixes 

Forced refresh for PlaceTypes 

Rooms inherit ACLs from parent upon creation 

QPTOOL – New Commands – updatemember, addmember 

• My Places Enhancements 

Results per page is configurable 

Place Name added to results view (sortable) 

Performance turning variables - configurable via qpconfig.xml 

Sorting – ascending/descending by name 

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Feature Enhancements (Continued) 

• Directory Improvements 

Better integration of offline with directories, Policy Director and 

Directory Assistance 

Consistent use of display name and common name for external 

users and groups in user interface 

Secondary "CN" components in LDAP DNs 

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Futures – Lotus Team Workplace 

(QuickPlace) 6.5.1 

Additional Platform Support 

•• Server Server 

Lotus Domino 6.5.1 6.5.1 

Sun Sun Solaris Solaris 9 

IBM IBM pSeries (AIX) (AIX) 5.2 5.2 

Microsoft Windows 2003 2003 

•• Client Client 

Mozilla browser 

Planned Feature Enhancements 

•• Microsoft Windows Application 

Integration 

Microsoft Office Office 2003 2003 support 

•• Lotus Lotus Instant Instant Messaging and and Web Web 

Conferencing (Sametime) 6.5.1 6.5.1 support 

•• Improved Scalability 

Enhanced membership 

Lifted Lifted ACL ACL membership limits limits 

Practical limit limit increased to to 4000 4000 

users users for for a single single “Place” “Place” 

•• Performance enhancements 

Product images images to to file file system system 

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Futures – Lotus Team WorkPlace 

(QuickPlace) 6.5.1 (Cont.) 


Group 1 

• English 

• Chinese – Traditional 

• Chinese – Simplified 

• French 

• German 

• Italian 

• Japanese 

• Korean 

• Portuguese – Brazilian 

• Spanish 


Group 2 

• Czech 

• Danish 

• Dutch 

• Finnish 

• Greek 

• Hungarian 

• Norwegian – Bokmal 

• Polish 

• Portuguese 

• Russian 

• Swedish 

• Turkish 


Group 3 

• Albanian 

• Bulgarian 

• Belarusian 

• Catalan 

• Croatian 

• Romanian 

• Serbian – Latin 

• Slovak 

• Slovenian 

• Thai Thai 

• Ukrainian 

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Lotus Real-time and Team Collaboration Products 

in 2004

2004 Real-time and Team Collaboration Portfolio 

Instant Messaging and Web 

Conferencing (Sametime) 6.5.1 

Team Workplace 

(QuickPlace) 6.51 

Coming in: 

Q1 2004! 

Workplace Team 

Collaboration 2.0 

Workplace Real-time 

Collaboration 2.0 

Coming in 

Q2 2004! 

Workplace Real-time 

Collaboration Everyplace 2.x 

} 

Coming in 

Q4 2004! 

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What is Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration? 

And What is Lotus Workplace Real-time Collaboration? 

• Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration 

Combined instant messaging and presence awareness, team Web 

conferencing, and team spaces for the new Lotus Workplace 

environment – accessible via a variety of clients 

Capabilities comparable to Lotus Instant Messaging and Web 

Conferencing (Sametime) PLUS Lotus Team Workplace 

(QuickPlace) 

• Lotus Workplace Real-time Collaboration 

Combine in instant messaging and presence awareness, and team 

Web conferencing for the Lotus Workplace environment 

Capabilities comparable to Lotus Instant Messaging and Web 

Conferencing (Sametime) only 

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What are the Business Benefits? 

• Improved access to the right people and information 

• Virtually brings together geographically dispersed team 

members 

• Enhances personal and team productivity 

• Enables improved customer responsiveness 

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With Lotus Workplace in Mind … 

• Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 

and/or Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) Customers: 

Continue to derive value from current and future releases of these 

products! 

Optionally integrate with Lotus Workplace or WebSphere Portal 

Mix and match as your business demands it 

• WebSphere Portal Customers: 

Continue the Portal path chosen and access the above-mentioned through 

portlets 

And/or take advantage of Lotus Workplace capabilities in WebSphere 

Portal 

• All: 

Whatever your direction, understand the Lotus Workplace vision 

And understand the benefits for WebSphere Portal 

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Instant Messaging – Integration Approaches 

A 

B 

A 

B 

On-the-glass Co-Existence Migration 

•Separate Lotus 

Sametime Connect 

and Workplace 

instant messaging 

portlets 

•Using one, the 

other or both on 

each ‘page’ 

•Separate Sametime 

vs. Workplace 

instant messaging 

communities 

•Single Presence 

Community 

•Server to Server 

connection 

•3 rd party applications 

continue to use Sametime 

server / API’s 

•Individuals can leverage 

Sametime Connect client 

or Lotus Workplace 

component 

•Migrate Contact List from 

Sametime to Lotus 

Workplace 

•Admin tool for 

Migrating all users’ 

Contact List from 

Sametime to Lotus 

Workplace 

•3rd party 

applications use 

Workplace API’s 

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Web Conferencing – Integration Approaches 

A 

B 

A 

B 


•Separate 

Sametime and 

Workplace 

“Meeting Center” 

Portlets 

•Using one, the 

other or both on 

each ‘page’ 

•End user must 

select which 

portlet to use to 

create a meeting 

•Separate 


Workplace 

“Meeting Center” 

portlets 

•Separate 


Workplace servers 

to handle different 

meetings 

•Integrated 

meeting 

reservation 

process 

•Handle Repeating 

meetings originally 

scheduled under 

Sametime 

•Handle 

proprietary 

Sametime 

Recorded session 

(*.RAP files) 

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Team Spaces – Integration Approaches 

A 

B 

A 

B 


•QuickPlace 

catalog portlet – 

‘My Places’ from 

Lotus Workplace 

•QuickPlace portlet 

on Lotus 

Workplace page 

•Users can 

manually move 

content from 

QuickPlace to/from 

Lotus Workplace 

Team Spaces 

•QuickPlace and 

Team 

Collaboration 

Servers coexist in 

same 

infrastructure 

•Begin new 

projects in Team 

Spaces 

•Users can interact 

with Quickplaces 

or Team Spaces 

•Common LDAP 

directories 

•Data migration 

utility provided 

from QuickPlace 

and competitive 

applications to 

Team 

Collaboration 

Document Library, 

Discussion and 

Membership 

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Making Integration Approaches Easy for You 

• Capabilities of existing products continue in Lotus 

Workplace 

• Customers with active software maintain will be entitled to 

comparable Lotus Workplace offerings 

• Incremental capabilities easily obtainable 

• New functions, deployment advances obtained through 

frequent delivery in new releases of Lotus Workplace 

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Directionally Speaking - Packaging/Entitlement Example 

If you have …. 

… you are entitled to 

… or can upgrade to 

SKU: Lotus Instant 

Messaging and Web 

Conferencing (Sametime) 

per User: 

•Lotus Sametime 

-Instant messaging and 

presence awarerness 

-Web conferencing 

with or without 

SKU: Lotus Enterprise Meeting 

Server (EMS) 

•Lotus Enterprise Meeting 

Server (EMS) 

SKU: Lotus Workplace Realtime 

Collaboration: 

If 

•Lotus Workplace Real-time 

Collaboration: 

- Instant messaging and 

presence awareness 

- Web conferencing 






Server (EMS) 

SKU: Lotus Workplace 

Team Collaboration: 

•Lotus Workplace Team 

Collaboration 




-Team spaces 





•Lotus QuickPlace 

-Team spaces 


Server (EMS) 

SKU: Lotus Instant 

Messaging Everyplace 

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•Lotus Sametime Everyplace 

SKU: Lotus Workplace 

“Real-time Everyplace” 

•Lotus Workplace Real-time 

Everyplace 

•Lotus Sametime Everyplace

In Closing 

• A few fun stats: 

Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) closed 2003 

with over 9.5M business users worldwide 

Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) closed 2003 with over 2.5M business 

users worldwide 

• And a little third-party validation: 

Osterman Research again named IBM as #1 in business instant 

messaging 

IDC named IBM as the “leader” in the enterprise instant messaging space 

IDC also named IBM as a “leader” in its “Leadership Grid” for the 

Worldwide Conferencing Applications market 

Gartner named IBM as a “leader” in its “Magic Quadrant “ for the Team 

Collaboration Support market 

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Sessions You Shouldn’t Miss! 

• ID409 – Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 3.1 Technical 

Details and Architecture 

• ID405 – Administering Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 

• ID406 – Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration Architecture and Technical Details 

• ID410 – Telephony Integration with Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing 

(Sametime) 

• ID507 – From Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) to Lotus 

Workplace Team Collaboration 

• STR109 – Collaborate Now! Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration Fit for Business 

• AD107 – Adding Presence Awareness to Your Business Applications 

• AD108 – Customization of Your Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 

• BP120 – Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) Development for Domino People 

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Q&A 

Thanks!! 

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