1. IBM Lotus Quickr Overview
Presentation Authors:
Jelan Heidelberg,
Offering Manager, Lotus Quickr
Marc Pagnier,
Product Manager, Lotus Quickr
WW Sales Contacts:
Kim Artlip,
Paul Culpepper,
Note: at Lotusphere, this presentation was used in session INV110

2. Agenda Business and market trends IBM Lotus® Quickr™ overview
Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in our portfolio
Benefits of Lotus Quickr

3. The small print
This presentation provides a description of IBM’s roadmap for document management and team collaboration.
The material is directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM.
Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.
Mention that planned availability for Lotus Quickr is late 2Q. Therefore, some of the details in this presentation might change before then.

4. Enterprises need to adapt to a globally connected world
Teams span the globe
Extended enterprises and strategic partnerships
Mergers and acquisitions
Outsourcing
Teams are fluid
Changing from project to project
Crossing organizational boundaries
“WPP…looked at all its employees… as a vast pool of individual specialists who could be assembled horizontally into collaborative teams, depending on the unique demands of any given project. And that team would then become a de facto new company…”
Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat
Management models of the future will need to contend…with how to orchestrate a complex and changing network of individuals within and outside the boundaries that previously defined “the enterprise”…
Global Innovation Outlook 2.0
March 2006
When we plan a new product like Lotus Quickr, one of our key inputs is absolutely the suggestions and input from our customers. But we also look at trends in the marketplace… trying to anticipate key challenges that organizations will face and how our Lotus software can have a positive impact. This section of the presentation covers some of the key business trends that we think our particularly relevant to the are of content management and team collaboration.
To start with, we all know that the nature of the teams we work with is changing. The notion of a departmental system just doesn’t match the kind of fluid virtual environment in which many of us work today. We work on multiple teams, some of which include members from outside our organization. In fact, as this quote from Tom Friedman’s book indicates, sometimes teams even become like de facto small companies.

5. Innovation is critical to compete in the 21st century and collaboration is essential for innovation…
Top innovation priorities
Extend the ability to collaborate inside and outside
Innovate business models and processes
Leverage information for business optimization
87% of CEOs believe fundamental change is required in next two-years to drive innovation
Innovation is also a very hot topic in the business news and a critical priority for an overwhelming majority of the CEO’s that we surveyed in mid Moreover, the CEO’s identified effective collaboration as a critical factor in their ability to innovate effectively.
External collaboration is indispensable. CEOs stressed the overwhelming importance of collaborative innovation – beyond company walls. Business partners and customers were cited as top sources of innovative ideas …
Source: 2006 IBM Global CEO Survey

6. A workforce in transition provides challenges and opportunities
Older workers
(Age 50 +)
Mid- career workers
(Age 35 – 50)
New generation
(born after 1980)
Growing as % of workforce
Shrinking as % of workforce
Hold the wisdom and intellectual capital of the organization
Essential source of professionals and middle managers
Critical to long-term viability and innovation
Traditional approach to technology, collaboration, organizational loyalty, and rewards
Tech savvy but not “native speakers”; mixed approach to collaboration, loyalty, and rewards
Technology is 2nd nature; more interested in peer / interest groups than organizational identity; think work should be fun and fulfilling
Another important trend that many organizations are starting to focus on is the dramatic shift in the demographics of the workforce. The number of mid-career workers – the core that represents middle managers and critical professionals – is shrinking. Workers approaching retirement is a growing number… and execs are worried about how to capture their intellectual capital before they leave. The number of gen Y workers or millenials is growing… organizations need to court and keep them and they have very different styles of working. They aren’t driven … and they aren’t document-centric…
Capture their knowledge before they retire
Relieve their stress and increase their effectiveness
Attract and retain; harness their collaborative style

7. Web 2.0 is the native language of “Millennials” and the new language of collaboration …
By 2009, wikis are predicted to become mainstream collaboration tools in at least half of all companies.
Everyone contributes
A new blog gets created every second.
Everyone’s opinion should be heard
Almost three-fourths of teens send instant messages more than .
Communication is constant
For the millenials, Web 2.0 isn’t a passing fad. It is fundamental to the way they expect to work. They expect that authoring means everyone contributes… thus the rapid growth of wikis. They expect that everyone has a right to publish their opinions… thus the rapid expansion of the blogisphere. And they communicate via IM and Facebook or Myspace, rather than .
And every generation wants the applications at work to be as “cool” and attractive as the ones at home …
Technorati/ Law Technology News, Dec 1, 2005; Comscore, Aug 8, 2005; America Online /Research Alert, Jan 6, 2006

8. A “collaboration gap” looms large in the mind of the CEO
External collaboration is indispensable. CEOs stressed the overwhelming importance of collaborative innovation.
% of CEOs who believe collaboration is “absolutely critical” or “of great importance”
80%
% of CEOs who believe their organization collaborates “to a large extent”
Financial performance: strong collaborators enjoyed healthier revenue growth and average operating margin over their competition...
60%
40%
Another key finding of our latest CEO study… just over 80% of them identified collaboration as critical – either “absolutely critical” or “very important”… and yet only about 55% of them felt that their organizations were collaborating successfully. Also notice that we found a direct tie between organizations that collaborate effectively and financial performance.. so the need to collaborate isn’t just a subjective thing in the minds of execs.
20%
The gap: although collaboration aspirations were high, actual implementation was dramatically lower… 0%
Source: “Expanding the Innovation Horizon: IBM Global CEO Survey”

9. State of current tools contributes to the gap…
Fragmented: collaboration tools are fragmented and disjointed
Hard-to-use: only those with greatest need are willing to tackle the learning curve
Stove-pipe silos: users are forced to change applications to access needed collaboration services
Lack of integration: separation between communication and collaboration services leads many users to fall back to the pervasive “reply to all”
Unfamiliar: current tools don’t enable users to stay within their favorite applications
Why the gap? Some of the reasons are obviously things like corporate culture… or like the transformation in demographics that we mentioned earlier. But we know that it is also the collaboration tools we have today. People might have tools, but they don’t use them as pervasively as they use or IM. They find the tools non-intuitive, silo’d… not integrated. And Lotus Quickr is focused on helping organizations close this gap.

10. Transforming the trends into product strategy…
Integration & flexibility:
Fits right into the applications you use
Customizable to meet your needs
Open
Simplicity:
Easy to get started
Easy to learn
Simplifies your everyday work
Anytime, anywhere access:
Collaborate inside or outside your firewall
Take your content offline
Relative importance* of attributes to buyers of collaboration software
Integrates easily
Simplify way work
Anywhere/time access
Organization more responsive
Reliable and stable
Employees productive
Adaptable to needs
Excellent service / support
We also mentioned at the beginning that we listen to our customers when we design a product like Lotus Quickr. We listen to you and build some of the specific features and functions you want. We also listen to you and focus on the attributes that are most important to you. In a recent survey, you told us you value integration and flexibility --- a solution that fits into what you already have. You value simplicity – it has to be easy to get started with, easy to learn.. something that simplifies your life instead of adding another silo’d application to worry about. And you want anytime, anywhere access… we doesn’t necessarily mean looking at a teamspace on a PDA… It also means collaborating outside the firewall, taking content offline, working from your favorite applications.
Source: internal IBM market research survey
(*Coefficients in Logistic Regression)

11. almost
You’ve probably already noticed that Lotus Quickr isn’t a typical IBM product name. It’s short, to the point, modern. Here’s an example of the user interface… it is also modern, visually appealing, intuitive…

12. Agenda Business and market trends IBM Lotus® Quickr™ overview
Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in our portfolio
Benefits of Lotus Quickr

13. Introducing IBM Lotus Quickr
Fastest way to share everyday business content with your teams…
Lotus Domino
IBM JCR
IBM FileNet *
SharePoint *
Other
Quickr Connectors
Shared Content
Team Workspaces
Anywhere, Anytime
Workflow
Wikis
Team Blogs
Business templates
Quickr Services
Quickr
Content Stores
Most complete set of connectors to desktop applications and an open connector architecture for developers
Rich collaborative content and team services integrated with entire IBM portfolio
Out-of-the-box business templates (e.g. Innovation Place) leveraging composite application support
Integration with Lotus Dominoâ and JCR content stores initially, and plans for IBM FileNet P8 support, providing comprehensive, scalable end-to-end content management options
Quickr
Content Stores
So let me define what Lotus Quickr 8.0 is. The product tagline or short description, is about “sharing everyday business content with teams”. The keyword here is “content”, Quickr is not just about sharing “documents”, you know, the artifacts that you create in MS Office. It is more than this, it includes of course diverse file types (like PDF, ODF, etc..), but it is even broader than this and covers web-based content: wiki pages, blog posts, calendar events, etc..
Nice description but ... What is the box ?
The easiest way to describe Quickr is in using the three layers on the graphic on the right:
first, Quickr is of course a browser experience but also a set of client connectors that deliver content and team collaboration to the end-users inside the applications that they are using every day. In other words, connectors are extensions to the most widely applications such as Lotus Notes, Sametime, MS Office, Windows Explorer, that allow a user to create, share and manage content - without having to use the browser. This native experience is critical to closing the collaboration gap, as connectors will make it natural and easy for people to share and collaborate.
Second, in the middle, Quickr is a set of open services to create and manipulate content, such as team spaces, document libraries, wikis, etc... These services are open and public, so the Quickr content can be naturally embedded into other applications, not just a stand-alone content that is out of the way. It is good to have open services but out of the box value is also important. So Quickr will also provide a set of business templates (project management, innovation places, etc.) so your customers can be productive day one.
Third layer, at the core: Quickr will provide a choice of content stores in the box, available either as a) the Domino repository or b) as a relational database, also referred to as the Java Content Repository (JCR). More importantly, the strategy is to provide integration with diverse content stores, first to FileNet in late 2007, and then to other content stores. The design goal is to isolate end users from the repositories, so users don’t have to worry about where the content resides. It should be transparent to them which provides more freedom for IT to manage their infrastructure without impacting end users.
To summarize, out of the box Quickr delivers the following: client connectors, the set of open services for the functionality and a choice of repositories.
* - Requires separate purchase; supported in future release of Lotus Quickr

14. Lotus QuickPlace® & Lotus Quickr
Lotus QuickPlace customers will be entitled to Lotus Quickr 8.0
QuickPlace 7.0 customers can think of Lotus Quickr 8.0 as their next release
With so much more: connectors, collaborative content management, composite applications, etc...
For QuickPlace 7.0 customers, moving to Quickr 8.0 will be even easier than previous release upgrades
No need to upgrade your entire environment !
Lotus Quickr 8.0 runs on both Domino 7.0 and 8.0
Before we go further… the name Lotus Quickr might have you wondering about the relationship between Quickr and Lotus QuickPlace. Two messages – both good news for QuickPlace customers. 1) Lotus Quickr is a NEW product with many new and exciting capabilities beyond what QuickPlace has today. 2) Lotus Quickr will be like a release upgrade for QP customers – they are fully entitled and moving to Lotus Quickr will be like doing a release upgrade… even easier actually. And Lotus Quickr will also run on a Domino 7 infrastructure so you don’t have to wait to deploy Quickr until you’re ready to upgrade your whole Domino environment.

15. Lotus Quickr provides a universe of capabilities…
Lotus Domino
IBM JCR
IBM FileNet *
SharePoint *
Other
Quickr Connectors
Shared Content
Team Workspaces
Anywhere, Anytime
Workflow
Wikis
Team Blogs
Business templates
Quickr Services
Quickr
Content Stores
Self-service, customizable team sites with an extensible infrastructure (membership mgmt, search capabilities), that support a full team lifecycle
Library management, check in & out, version control, views, security, custom meta-data for a variety of business content types
Templates for immediate
out-of-the-box value and support of common business processes, including Innovation Place, project & meeting management
A collection of reusable collaborative components (libraries, calendars, tasks, blogs, lists, Web content authoring...) to build powerful applications
Let’s spend more time talking about the capabilities or services that are included in Lotus Quickr….
Offline services, extranet access, versatile portlets, to expand and facilitate collaboration
Basic workflow for notification and approval
* - Requires separate purchase; supported in future release of Lotus Quickr

16. Lotus Quickr is open and flexible …
Lotus Domino
IBM JCR
IBM FileNet *
SharePoint *
Other
Quickr Connectors
Shared Content
Team Workspaces
Anywhere, Anytime
Workflow
Wikis
Team Blogs
Business templates
Quickr Services
Quickr
Content Stores
Infrastructure:
Repositories
Directories
Server operating systems
Desktop operating systems
Programming models
Web 2.0 and industry standards:
Eclipse
Atom or RSS
ODF
AJAX
Web Services
REST
Java
Linux
We also want to mention an important quality that really differentiates Lotus Quickr from the competition… notably Microsoft. Lotus Quickr is open, flexible, and extensible. We’ve already talked about support for multiple content stores. Lotus Quickr also runs on multiple servers, supports multiple desktops and integrates with multiple directories. And Quickr supports industry standards like Eclipse, RSS / Atom feeds, Open Document Format, AJAX for user interfaces, and of course Java and Linux.
* - Requires separate purchase; supported in future release of Lotus Quickr

17. Access Lotus Quickr from an inviting, intuitive Web 2.0 interface…
This Lotus Quickr welcome page is representative of a new, fresh, Web 2.0 user interface… designed to make people want to use the product. Our goal is to provide a rich browser experience that surfaces the full range of Lotus Quickr capabilities. In addition to this browser experience we also provide the Quickr connectors to access many Lotus Quickr functions directly from popular desktop applications.

18. Lotus Quickr Connectors integrate right into your favorite applications…
Making sharing & collaboration transparent and natural
Lotus Notes® client
Windows Explorer /
“My Documents”
Lotus Sametime®
Microsoft Office /
IBM Productivity Editors
These Lotus Quickr Connectors are a key differentiator for the product… an important part of how we plan to help organizations close the gap between their desire to collaborate and the actual practice of collaboration.
Initially, we’re providing four connectors – for Lotus Notes, for Microsoft Office and the IBM Productivity Editors, for Windows Explorer, and for Sametime. We’ll provide more in the future (like Microsoft Outlook) and we also anticipate that our Business Partners will leverage our open architecture to build additional connectors. Let’s take a look at them up close…
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

19. Integration & Flexibility
Lotus Notes Connector
Helps reduce attachments, content duplication, and “version anxiety”…
Open and save attachments into library or team workspace
Replace attachments with shared links
Integrated into file menus and “right click”
“Reminder” prompt encourages participation
Supports Lotus Notes 7 & 8!
These are screen shots of the Lotus Notes Connector… both for Notes 7 and for Notes 8 (code-named Hannover). You can see that you have the ability right from an to attach a link to a document that is in one of your Quickr places. Right from your Notes client… from within the .. you can navigate to find the right document in your Quickr place, just like you would navigate through the window that shows the folders on your C-drive when you want to send an attachment. That’s the key here… you don’t have to leave what you’re doing to go find the appropriate document and do “copy as link”… you use the same familiar “gesture” that you would use to attach a document.
Another key capability of this connector that people really love when they hear about it --- the little pop-up window that gently nudges you when you revert to your “send an attachment” behavior. Essentially, it says “do you really want to send that attachment? wouldn’t you like to put the document in a Quickr place and send a link instead?” Seems like a simple concept but it can make a huge difference in managing your in-box and actually starting to transform behavior…
By the way, the Notes connector works with Notes 7 and Notes 8… so you can start collaborating with Lotus Quickr before you have upgraded your desktops to Notes 8.
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

20. Microsoft Office Connector
Facilitates collaborative document authoring and version management…
Open and save documents into library or team workspace
Assign document properties (meta-tags)
Integrate with workflow for approval routing
Integrate with “dogear* ” for tagging
Use your editor of choice (no forced upgrade)
Microsoft Office XP, 2000, 2003…
IBM Productivity Editors
The Microsoft Office connector lets you take advantage of Lotus Quickr capabilities directly from Office applications … PowerPoint, Excel, and Word. You can see that when you are in Office, you have an actions drop down that gives you capabilities like being able to check a new document into a Quickr place. If you have created workflow for a document, you might have additional actions (that are grayed out in the example) like being able to approve or reject a document. An important thing to note here… our goal is to support the versions of these desktop tools that are the most common, which means Office 2000 and In the near future, when adoption starts to increase, we will of course support Office This is an important advantage for customers. They don’t want a solution that forces them to upgrade all their desktops to the latest version of Office.
A final point to mention. We will provide a similar Quickr connector for the IBM Productivity Editors. These are the editors that we provide as part of the Notes 8 client.
Also available for IBM Productivity Editors with ODF support
* Requires purchase of Lotus Connections
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

21. Lotus Sametime Connector
Provides easy access to shared content right from real-time client …
Navigate content through a simple tree interface
Drag and drop from local system to libraries and team workspaces
Integrated action menu
Quick contextual access to shared documents
Send links in chats
Invite colleagues to download the connectors
The Sametime connector takes advantage of the Eclipse framework that we use for the Sametime 7.5 client. You can see we have a “shelf” for the Lotus Quickr connector where you can easily navigate through your Quickr places to find a particular document. You can choose to chat with someone about that document and it inserts a link into the chat.
So if we step back a minute… what you’ve seen with these Quickr connectors is what we consider to be a key benefit of the product. They provide the ability to access your content and collaborate from where you are without having to switch to a separate application. We believe – and the overwhelming response we’re already hearing from the customers and press and analysts who have reviewed the product – that this has the potential to make a huge difference in how people work. By letting them work the way that they normally do… and still share content and collaborate … we actually have the potential to make big changes in how they work.
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

22. Microsoft Windows Explorer Connector
Makes it easy and natural to move content to collaborative environment…
Navigate content through familiar tree interface
Drag and drop content from local system to libraries and team workspaces
Integrated action menu
Let’s look at the last Quickr connector for Windows Explorer. This is also a connector that people really like… You can navigate naturally through your Quickr places just like you normally navigate through the folders in your C-drive. You can drag and drop into and out of Quickr places. You have a “right click” action menu that lets you do things like check-in, check-out, and approve or reject.
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

23. Team workspaces Components for managing projects, including:
Easily create online places for projects and teams
Components for managing projects, including:
Document libraries
Team calendar and milestones
Lists for managing structured content
Discussions forums, blogs, & wikis
And more...
Self-service with a step-by-step guide to set up the places
Now let’s go back and look more closely at the browser interface for Lotus Quickr where you can really leverage the full power of its capabilities. Quickr is designed to be self-service so that business users can create a Quickr place or team workspace like the one that you see here. We provide a number of components that you can select from to create a Quickr place. Most places will start with a content or document library. You can add things like a team calendar and team milestones for the project. You have options for creating content that we’ve now expanded to include wikis – an increasingly popular method for collaborative authoring. (note to presenter: if you’re not familiar with wikis, check out wikipedia.com). You can have discussion forums and you can also create a blog inside your Quickr place.

24. End users can create custom team workspaces using flexible Lotus Quickr templates and components
Team blog
Wiki
Project dashboard
Many more…
These are some visual examples of the type of components that we’ll provide … you can easily assemble them to create your own Quickr places.

25. You do not need to reinvent the wheel
Use Lotus Quickr application templates designed for specific business needs…
We will provide extensible business application templates
Plus, we will provide a place for a community of contributors to exchange ideas and share business templates
With as easy as it is to create your own custom Quickr places, we still know that users want even more “out-of-the-box” ready to go capability. We’re providing ready-to-go customized Quickr places – or business templates – predesigned to meet specific business problems. You see some examples here. We’ll have more by the time the product ships. And we are also working with our business partners so that they can contribute templates. We’ll be creating a community on the Web where you’ll be able to find templates and other Quickr tools.
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

26. Content libraries
Quickly set up libraries to store and share content securely
Check-in, check-out, version control
Customizable views to organize content
Multi-level security (library, folder, document)
Search across multiple libraries
Workflow for routing & approving content
RSS/Atom feed support to share or consume content
Extensibility: custom meta-data, document types and templates
Let’s go back and talk a little more about the content library … one of the fundamental components that every Quickr place will have. The content library provides the capabilities that you would expect to help you organize and manage content. You get version control with check-in and check-out capability. You can set up granular security on your content. We also provide basic workflow … not sophisticated workflow like Business Process Choreographer … but the basic workflow that people use to get documents through an approval cycle.
You also have the ability to subscribe to content in the library so that it is published to your favorite reader. (Note to presenter… RSS is Really Simple Syndication)

27. Lotus Quickr 8 -- Personal Edition
Personal Edition provides a “starter set” of Lotus Quickr capabilities
Fast and easy on-line personal content library
Familiar folder metaphor
Easily move content to secure, managed servers
Private content
Shared content
Getting started is just an click away
Includes Lotus Quickr connectors
Planned availability 2H ‘07
Free to Lotus currently licensed Notes and Domino Web Access users!!
That’s an overview of the capabilities of Lotus Quickr, which we think are really exciting. Let’s talk about one more thing before we move to the next section of the presentation. At Lotusphere, we also announced that we will provide a personal edition of Lotus Quickr. This is basically a simple, streamlined subset of the capabilities focused on content management. It is designed for people to get started and solve the fundamental problem – how can I organize my important stuff, put it someplace that is secure and backed up, and share it with my colleagues.
Users can get started with
Simplicity
Anytime & Anywhere
Integration & Flexibility

28. Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in our portfolio
Agenda
Business and market trends
IBM Lotus Quickr overview
Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in our portfolio
The next section provides a very high level look at high Lotus Quickr relates to other products in our portfolio. Many of you might have specific questions about both a technical and entitlement roadmap, based on particular Lotus products that you own. I encourage you to work individually with your Lotus representative to get those questions answered. Our goal here is simply to give you the broad brush and to assure you that we are very focused on protecting the investment that you have already made with us.
Benefits of Lotus Quickr

29. Lotus Quickr Roadmap ‘06 2Q ‘07 4Q ’07 – Q2 ‘08 Lotus Quickr
personal edition
Lotus Quickr
- Futures
Lotus Quickr 8
Continued focus on user interface
Continued focus on connectors
New Microsoft Outlook connector
Continued focus on integration
In-context sharing & web conferencing
Profiles, dogear, activities, communities, etc.
Extended tools support
Lotus Component Designer
Integration with IBM FileNet
Records management, etc.
Integration with IBM Domino.Doc®
QuickPlace 7
Modern intuitive UI with Web 2.0
Business templates, blogs, wikis...
Connectors for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Microsoft
Collaborative content management
Ease of administration
From IBM Workplace™
& IBM WebSphere® Portal offerings
From a big picture perspective, our goal is to provide a single product – Lotus Quickr – that provides everyday content management and team collaboration capabilities. It’s important for us, for our partners, and for our customers to simplify and streamline… and to eliminate confusion. It’s also a trend in the market – to converge and integrate these capabilities.
Today, we have several different products in this space. These products have come from different heritages and met different needs. As you can see from this roadmap, the goal for all of these products is to provide Lotus Quickr as their “destination” – with enhanced capabilities compared to what they have today. We went get to this simpler, streamlined portfolio in a single step so we will need some of our customers to be patient with us until we get to a future release of Lotus Quickr.
Initially, Lotus Quickr provides a simple “release upgrade” for our Lotus QuickPlace customers (as we mentioned earlier). When you deploy Lotus Quickr 8 on Portal, it also provides a fairly simple upgrade for people who are using Workplace Documents or Portal Document Manager (PDM) today. Going forward, we plan that Lotus Quickr will also be the destination for Workplace Team Collaboration customers and Lotus Document Manager (or Domino.Doc) customers. We are working through the mechanics of how we will provide the appropriate licensing entitlements for various customers and we’ll publish that information later. In the meantime, as mentioned earlier, customers who have specific situations that need to be resolved quickly should work with their Lotus representative.
You can also see from this roadmap that we’re already well underway in planning the next release of Lotus Quickr .. the one after Quickr We will continue to enhance the user interface. We’ve indicated we will do FileNet integration. We’ll also look at other repositories, like SharePoint. We’ll build a connector for Microsoft Outlook and provide increased integration with other Lotus product such as Sametime and Lotus Connections.
Lotus Domino Document Manager 7
Lotus Domino Document Manager 8
This product roadmap is directional in nature and does not imply any product plan commitment on the part of IBM. Plans are subject to change at any time without notice.

30. Lotus Quickr and composite applications
User Interface Services
Lotus Quickr provides quick out-of-the-box value
A set of extensible services for end-users to quickly create rich business applications - with no programming skills required
Lotus Quickr leverages the strengths of the core IBM application platforms - Domino, WebSphere Portal, Eclipse
Programmers familiar with any of these platforms can integrate and extend Lotus Quickr services and components to create advanced custom applications
Connector services
Portal &
Notes 8.0
Sametime 7.5
Content and Collaboration Services
Business templates
Content lib
Blogs Wikis
Calendar Milestones
Team places
Without going into great detail, let’s position Lotus Quickr as it relates to application development and SOA. First and foremost, Lotus Quickr provides great out-of-the-box capability that is deployed and leverages the strengths of either a Domino or a Portal infrastructure.
Lotus Quickr is also a set of very extensible services… so as a Domino programmer or a Portal programmer, you can customize Quickr capabilities, build your own templates, integrate Quickr components into applications, or build your own connectors.
Deployment Services
Multiple repositories, devices, directories…
Domino, Portal, FileNet…
Rich Clients
Extranet
Offline
Browser

31. Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections: a perfect combination
Profiles
Communities
Connect team members to their profiles for expert location
Connect places and communities to support rich collaboration
Bookmarks
Quickr Connectors
Shared Content
Team Workspaces
Workflow
Anywhere Anytime
Wikis
Team Blogs
Business templates
Quickr Services
Quickr
content stores
Activities
Tag content, events, wiki pages, tasks, etc... for more accurate searching and retrieval
Add place content to an activity
Grow an activity to a place
Spawn-off activities from a place
Blogs
As people learn about the major announcements that we made at Lotusphere this year, they often want to understand the relationship between Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections. First of all, these two products are very complementary. We think that many customers will deploy both of them. As you can see from this chart, we have identified many opportunities where we can build increased integration between these two products. The profiles in Lotus Connections for example can provide much more information than a simple directory entry about team members.
We are already leveraging dogear to tag content in Lotus Quickr.
Perhaps the majority of discussion centers around two things – a “community” versus a team and the relationship between an activity and a Quickr place. We think of a team as a formal entity that people are assigned to … or self-assigned … that has a specific objective, like a project. A community is typically a looser affiliation, a community of interest rather than a group of people who have a specific task to accomplish.
Activities tend to be more ad hoc than the formal structured projects that you manage with a Quickr place. An Activity typically has fewer people, fewer documents, and a shorter duration. It provides a very effective way to quickly accomplish a task with a small group of people. We see lots of opportunity for Activities to grow into Quickr places and for Quickr places to spawn activities to accomplish tasks within the team.
Complement Quickr contextual team blogs with personal blogs

32. Agenda Business and market trends IBM Lotus Quickr overview
Relationship between Lotus Quickr and other products in our portfolio
Benefits of Lotus Quickr

33. Lotus Quickr solves key customer needs
To maintain competitive position, innovate, and grow revenue, organizations require solutions to enable them to collaborate across the enterprise and beyond—to more effectively manage their information and projects
Let me...
Work the way I want
Get control of my content and information
Better collaborate with partners and customers
I want to...
Be more productive
Work more effectively with my colleagues
Stop using my inbox to dump content
Reduce the duplication and inconsistencies of content
Quickly set-up places to share content with anyone I want
Manage projects securely
Lotus Quickr
lets me...
This page summarizes some of the key benefits of Lotus Quickr. They are pretty self-evident from the bullets on the chart.
Access and manage content naturally from within the applications I use everyday
Collaborate anywhere and anytime
Take my content and projects offline
Integrate my mail client with my shared places and libraries
Organize my files in a secured environment
Share simply and easily
Reuse and expose content across applications
Add users to my spaces myself
Provide tools to track and manage my team activities

34. Lotus Quickr integrates easily & provides flexibility
For end users, Lotus Quickr connectors integrate into desktop applications
Increases adoption of collaborative tools
Simplifies collaboration among users with different styles and preferences
Improves effectiveness
For IT, Lotus Quickr leverages current software and hardware investment
Works with multiple versions of Notes clients, Domino and Microsoft Office (no forced upgrades)
Supports open standards
Roadmap: Support for additional repositories and clients
Designed for a heterogeneous environment; doesn’t force adoption of a single set of tools
Remember we talked about the beginning about the attributes that customers told us were important in a collaboration product? Integration, anywhere-anytime, and simplicity. Let’s conclude by talking about those attributes… it’s a good way to review what we’ve said about Lotus Quickr.
First, integration. People think of this in different ways … and we provide integration in a number of different ways with Lotus Quickr. First, the Connectors that integrate easily into the way that people work. This enables people to easily collaborate together even if they have different working styles and preferences.
Lotus Quickr also integrates with your current environment. It integrates with the versions of desktop tools that you use today rather than forcing you to upgrade. It supports different server operating systems and different directories.
Lotus Quickr is also designed to work with different content stores or repositories… starting with Domino and JCR but expanding to FileNet, SharePoint and others.
And of course we embrace open standards, which gives you the flexibility to easily integrate Lotus Quickr into other applications that you have and to extend it with your own customization.

35. Lotus Quickr provides anytime, anywhere access
For end users:
Take an entire team workspace offline to work wherever you are
Access team workspaces from outside the firewall to collaborate with strategic partners
Access the same content from multiple applications
For IT:
RSS / ATOM feeds provide an easy way to post Lotus Quickr content to other applications
Use Domino replication to move Lotus Quickr content to the edges of your network for better performance
Anywhere … anytime. CEO’s have identified how critical extranet collaboration is. That’s a key “anywhere” capability that differentiates Lotus Quickr. It is easy for an end user to add an extranet user to a Quickr place.
Of course the Quickr connectors give you access to your Quickr content from other applications… that’s anywhere. And you can subscribe to Quickr content in your favorite RSS reader… anytime, anywhere.
We’ve also built Lotus Quickr as an open extensible application that ISVs with expertise in various mobile devices can use to build connectors. Mobile plug-ins for QuickPlace are already in the market, for example. We will be working with ISVs to build similar capability for Lotus Quickr.

36. Lotus Quickr = simplicity
For end users:
Personal edition of Lotus Quickr lets you get started easily
Lotus Quickr connectors let you collaborate with minimal disruption to your normal work patterns
Setting up intranet or extranet team workspaces takes a few simple steps
Templates make it easy to create business-specific team workspaces
Use of Web 2.0 technologies makes UI more compelling and more similar to what they use at home
For IT:
Leverages your current skills
Provides self-service options for end users
Finally, simplicity. I hope that everything you have heard today…. all the sample screens that you’ve seen, the story of Quickr connectors … all this has convinced you that we are laser-focused on the end user experience and simplicity.

37. Thank you!!

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