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Minnesota Lotus Notes User Group Why Lotus Notes/Domino ND7?
John Smart
Partner
GreyDuck Technology, Inc
[email protected]
651.283.8689
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Why Lotus ND7?
Agenda
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Goals for this presentation
Why Lotus ND7? “Who’s asking?”
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Corporate Executives
End Users
Application Developers
IT
Summary
Presentation Goals
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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 WebSphere
Portal
IBM Workplace
Collaboration Services
IBM Workplace
Services Express
IBM & 3rd Party
Value-Add Solutions
Lotus Sametime
Lotus Workflow
Lotus QuickPlace
Lotus Enterprise
Integrator
Lotus Domino
Document Manager
IBM Workplace
Web Content
Management
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Relative TCO
Release 5
Release 6
User Productivity
Server Capacity
Upgrade Costs
Administration Costs
Support Costs
User Downtime
Application Integration
Release 7
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
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 R5
* IBM Commissioned Study
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IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 7 Poised to be
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Take off the Gloves!
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Flexibility, choice and
openness in everything we
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Key focus on security
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Consistent on-time delivery of
product and
value-add solutions
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Acute focus and insights on
needs of business
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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!
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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.
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Web Services hosting of Lotus Domino applications
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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
J2EE™ 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.
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Optional DB2® 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 DB2
 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
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Tracks the time elapsed to perform each method in
agent or Web service.
– Can use in conjunction with Lotus Domino Domain
Monitoring – Application Monitoring
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Supports LotusScript and Java
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Enable using option in individual design element’s
properties box
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View profiling results using new NotesAgent method
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Design menu item - View Profile Results
Other New Features for Application Developers
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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 NotesBench scalability
• Reduce Domino CPU utilization
• Validate results in live IBM production environment
Optimizing Resources
while Containing Costs
Lotus Domino 6.5
Lotus Domino 7.0
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Results
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:
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Check
Collect
Consolidate
Correlate
Correct
Activity Trends
Formerly available with Tivoli® Analyzer
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A capacity planning and resource/load balancing
tool for Lotus Domino domains
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Gathers and analyzes Lotus Domino activity data
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Resource balance many Lotus Domino servers by
moving databases across servers
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Key technologies:
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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
Smart Upgrade Improvements in Lotus
Domino 7
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Smart Upgrade tracking
Governor - Limit the number of Smart Upgrades per hour (also in v6.5.4)
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
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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 ND7?
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Investment Protection
User Productivity
– Better managed email
– More pervasive instant messaging (e.g. calendars)
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More agility
– Web Services
– .nsf and/or DB2
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Better use of existing hardware
Reduced admin costs
– Proactive monitoring
– Load balancing intelligence
– SmartUpgrade enhancements