
IBM Redbooks: Installing and deploying IBM Connections
IBM® Collaboration Solutions and IBM Redbooks® have partnered together to create this comprehensive guide on how to install and deploy IBM Connections. Topics cover the spectrum from planning to performance tuning, with chapters on high availability, metrics, customizing the user experience, and more. More >
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- Learn about IBM iNotes Social Edition
- Using Reseller and Distributed Software in IBM SmartCloud for Social Business
- Developing OpenSocial gadgets for IBM Connections 4.0
- IBM Connections Mail
- Experience IBM Connections
- IBM Connections 4.0 Reviewer’s Guide
- IBM Connections V4.0: Reinventing how people innovate and work together
- Integrating SPNEGO with IBM Sametime components on a federated deployment
- Using IBM Connections more as a platform than an application
- Developing an IBM SmartCloud for Social Business application
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XPages & Composite apps
XPages utilize JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML. Yet, deep programming skills are not required to build powerful, compelling Web and IBM Notes and Domino applications.
Composite applications are a key element in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). They enable you to easily integrate different types of components and technologies to create contextual applications.
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Start here to learn about XPages with links to overview content, videos, tutorials, and other content that will get you up to speed quickly.
Watch this two-part video series demonstrating how you can use XPages components in an IBM Notes application.
Discover the power and benefits of composite applications.
Explore detailed examples, sample projects, and more in the IBM Composite Applications wiki.
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Learn IBM Collaboration Solutions Products
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Lotus and IBM Redbooks® are developing high-quality Redbooks content using wiki technology. Below are some of IBM Redbooks developed and published in the Lotus product wikis. A complete list is available here.
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IBM Champions represent top business leaders, IT professionals, developers, and educators who lead and mentor others to help them make the best use of IBM solutions and services.
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