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Minnesota Lotus Notes User Group Why Lotus Notes/Domino ND 7? John Smart Partner Grey. Duck Technology, Inc John. Smart@Grey. Duck. com 651. 283. 8689

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Why Lotus ND 7? Agenda • • Goals for this presentation Why Lotus ND 7? “Who’s asking? ” – – • Corporate Executives End Users Application Developers IT Summary

Presentation Goals • • Mine: Arm Evangelists Yours?

Notes/Domino 7: Helping Address the Needs of Key Communities Corporate Executives End Users § Revenue growth with cost containment § Focus on top-priority work § Enhance shareholder value § Accelerate responsiveness § Stay ahead of the competition § Connect with communities § Drive organic growth by leveraging organization’s unique human capital § Be productive in all situations § Integrate your work IT Application Developers § Manage increasingly complex IT environment § Leverage existing skills § Balance demands, costs, and priorities § Align investments to business imperatives § Secure infrastructure § Protect existing application investments § Rapidly respond to demands

Rich, Extensive, Forward-Looking Eco-System IBM Web. Sphere Portal IBM Workplace Collaboration Services IBM Workplace Services Express IBM & 3 rd Party Value-Add Solutions Lotus Sametime Lotus Workflow Lotus Quick. Place Lotus Enterprise Integrator Lotus Domino Document Manager IBM Workplace Web Content Management

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7 Poised to be Significantly Less than Release 6 TCO Ferris Research study estimates reductions in key TCO areas* § 15% reduction in direct costs § 15% reduction in user productivity costs § 8. 5% reduction in overall TCO § 22% reduction in overall TCO for customers upgrading from R 5 * IBM Commissioned Study

Take off the Gloves! • Flexibility, choice and openness in everything we deliver • Key focus on security • Consistent on-time delivery of product and value-add solutions • Acute focus and insights on needs of business • An integral part of the IBM Workplace family Anything less is simply not enough!

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7: Helping Address the Needs of Key Communities Corporate Executives End Users § Revenue growth with cost containment § Focus on top-priority work § Enhance shareholder value § Accelerate responsiveness § Stay ahead of the competition § Connect with communities § Drive organic growth by leveraging organization’s unique human capital § Be productive in all situations § Integrate your work IT Application Developers § Manage increasingly complex IT environment § Leverage existing skills § Balance demands, costs, and priorities § Align investments to business imperatives § Secure infrastructure § Protect existing application investments § Rapidly respond to demands

IBM Lotus Notes 7: Focus on Top-Priority Work • Helping you cope with mail deluge • Define and focus on top-priority work items • Effectively organize inbox • Understand context of e-mail threads

IBM Lotus Notes 7: Accelerate Responsiveness § Dramatic usability improvements § Provide more options at your fingertips More Document Options Your Environment Your Way Stay on Top of What’s Important Find What You’ve Filed

IBM Lotus Notes 7: Connect with Communities • Expanded presence awareness • Optimized performance with multithreaded support for instant contact list and IM sessions • Include Lotus Notes links within IM session • Save discussion sessions • Improve responsiveness by connecting with experts and communities in the context of work

Take off the Gloves! • • • Collaboration is more than e-mail “Working off-line” applies to more than e-mail Effective responsiveness through business-grade secure instant messaging Client flexibility, choice, and simplification Security is fundamental and foundational to IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Anything less is simply not enough!

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7: Helping Address the Needs of Key Communities Corporate Executives End Users § Revenue growth with cost containment § Focus on top-priority work § Enhance shareholder value § Accelerate responsiveness § Stay ahead of the competition § Connect with communities § Drive organic growth by leveraging organization’s unique human capital § Be productive in all situations § Integrate your work IT Application Developers § Manage increasingly complex IT environment § Leverage existing skills § Balance demands, costs, and priorities § Align investments to business imperatives § Secure infrastructure § Protect existing application investments § Rapidly respond to demands

New Application Platform Capabilities Think outside the in-box!

Expanding the Reach of Lotus Domino Applications Expanding developer skills. Increasing developer productivity. Increasing application flexibility. • Web Services hosting of Lotus Domino applications – Leverage IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications and build innovative applications using existing skills – Extend IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications into SOA initiatives Existing Applications Stand alone J 2 EE™ or. NET application Portal application § Enable existing applications § Build new applications using existing skills "Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. " -- Albert Einstein Open-standard secure integration

Expanding the Reach of Lotus Domino Applications Expanding developer skills. Increasing developer productivity. Increasing application flexibility. • Optional DB 2® Relational Storage* – Completely optional – determine usage based on business needs – Effectively integrate select IBM Lotus Notes/Domino applications using openstandard (Structured Query Language) SQL – Enjoy benefits of SQL without retraining or usage changes – Select optimal storage structure for applications Existing NSF-based Applications Select applications to run on DB 2 § No need to alter application § Full replication support Maintain select applications in NSF * Limited Availability Program for Microsoft Windows and IBM AIX® in version 7. 0

Agent and Web Service Profiling • Tracks the time elapsed to perform each method in agent or Web service. – Can use in conjunction with Lotus Domino Domain Monitoring – Application Monitoring • Supports Lotus. Script and Java • Enable using option in individual design element’s properties box • View profiling results using new Notes. Agent method or Design menu item - View Profile Results

Other New Features for Application Developers • • • Shared Columns Set auto-save per form Include actions into the right-click menu “Input Enabled” true/false formula on Notes-style fields User-definable columns (not just colors any more)

Notes/Domino 7: Helping Address the Needs of Key Communities Corporate Executives End Users § Revenue growth with cost containment § Focus on top-priority work § Enhance shareholder value § Accelerate responsiveness § Stay ahead of the competition § Connect with communities § Drive organic growth by leveraging organization’s unique human capital § Be productive in all situations § Integrate your work IT Application Developers § Manage increasingly complex IT environment § Leverage existing skills § Balance demands, costs, and priorities § Align investments to business imperatives § Secure infrastructure § Protect existing application investments § Rapidly respond to demands

Lotus Domino 7 Performance Goals • Lotus Domino 7 Performance Improvement Scope • Improve Notes. Bench scalability • Reduce Domino CPU utilization • Validate results in live IBM production environment Optimizing Resources while Containing Costs

Lotus Domino 7 Notes. Bench NRPC Results 50% Increase 400% 80% 20% 11%

Lotus Domino Web Access 7 Notes. Bench Results 50% Increase 50% 65% 13% 50%

Lotus Domino 7 Administration Goals – TCO! • Reduce largest direct administration costs – Server monitoring and admin costs – Client Deployment/Upgrade costs – User, Desktop lockdown • Reduce largest indirect costs – Improved scalability to allow server consolidation – Improved monitoring to prevent unplanned downtime • Align with IBM Autonomic Computing – Domino Domain Monitoring

Domino Domain Management - Goals At the highest level, reduce TCO by providing a means: – To quickly monitor and determine the health of an entire domain – At a single UI location – and quickly resolve problems

Screen shot of DDM

DDM - How? • Automate problem determination/analysis by feature (replication, messaging, directory, security, etc. ) • Rollup, prioritize, and resolve problems across servers • Hide details until they are needed • Make DDM checks and reporting configurable and flexible • Be consistent with IBM Autonomic Computing (AC) vision • The DDM Five C’s: • • • Check Collect Consolidate Correlate Correct

Activity Trends Formerly available with Tivoli® Analyzer • A capacity planning and resource/load balancing tool for Lotus Domino domains • Gathers and analyzes Lotus Domino activity data • Resource balance many Lotus Domino servers by moving databases across servers • Key technologies: – – Patented heuristic methods Visual analysis tools Self-healing, -optimization, -configuration Automated change management with full administrationcycle support

Activity Trends Resource Balancing

Optimizing Resources through Deployment Enhancements • Consistent delivery of in-line upgrades • Streamline deployment with validated solutions • Streamline client deployments with enhanced Smart Upgrade ® e ac l P ® e r e ag r ow rp o n l f e n i k m nt r ick m Ma or a E u o S W Q D nt s us rato s s t s e u u t t tu tu m Lo teg Lo Lo ocu In D ise e tim e ac l kp t or nten nt W o e C m M IB eb age W an M

Smart Upgrade Improvements in Lotus Domino 7 • • • Smart Upgrade tracking Governor - Limit the number of Smart Upgrades per hour (also in v 6. 5. 4) Smart Upgrade server cluster failover to another server Smart Upgrade failover from shared drive path kit to Attachment kit. Smart Upgrade fields added to the desktop policy settings document.

Improved Email Management • Spam management • • DNS blacklists (also in version 6. x) Private blacklists Private whitelists DNS whitelists • Message disclaimers • Mail rule scalability improvements • Archiving by date • Other • IIOP performance improvements • Networking performance improvements • Now supporting Java 1. 4. 2

Lotus Domino Server – Security & LDAP • Security • Single Sign-on - more flexible naming for Single-Sign-On LTPA token • Stronger encryption in Lotus Notes RPC – 1024 -bit RSA keys – 128 -bit symmetric keys • Programmatic interfaces for manipulating secure email • Various ID management improvements • LDAP • Improved performance – LDAP server thread pooling – DA LDAP miss caching • Lotus Domino Domain Monitor LDAP server health monitoring

IT: Notes/Domino 7 TCO savings

Take off the Gloves! • Package and enhance tools to simplify administration • Deliver complete openstandard based solutions on Linux • Provide in-line upgrade of server and client • Without requiring Rip & Replace! Anything less is simply not enough!

Key Takeaway Points – Why ND 7? • • Investment Protection User Productivity – Better managed email – More pervasive instant messaging (e. g. calendars) • More agility – Web Services –. nsf and/or DB 2 • • Better use of existing hardware Reduced admin costs – Proactive monitoring – Load balancing intelligence – Smart. Upgrade enhancements