IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0.2 delivers business value of social software and supports your diverse IT infrastructure
IBM United States Software Announcement 207-282November 6, 2007
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IBM Lotus Connections is social software for business that empowers you to be more innovative and helps you execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of coworkers, partners, and customers. Existing customers around the world and new businesses just starting to deploy social software will appreciate the following new features of Lotus Connections Version 1.0.2:
- Expanded support for more operating systems, more browsers, and more directories, so you can easily deploy and integrate social software across your diverse organization
- Plug-ins for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer, and WebSphere Portal, so people can interact with their professional networks from the tools they use every day
- A rich API based on the REST and Atom standards to allow other applications to utilize the profiles, community, bookmarking, blogging, and activity services of Lotus Connections
- A new pilot installation that gets you up and running quickly so users can start expanding their professional networks, sharing ideas, and increasing their productivity right away
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at
800-IBM-CALL
(Reference: YE001).
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IBM Lotus® Connections lets you utilize the collective knowledge of your organization, your partners, and your customers by dynamically building new connections between people, the information they know, and the tasks they are executing. Lotus Connections delivers this capability through the following five integrated components:
- Profiles is the directory and expertise location component that helps you find people across your organization so you can complete tasks faster.
- Communities allows employees with common responsibilities or customers with a common product interest to collaborate and share information.
- Blogs provide a way for subject matter experts to present their ideas and learn from the experience of others.
- Dogear is the social bookmarking component that allows you to quickly find information that has been tagged and prequalified by people in your network.
- The Activities component provides a single place to view, manage, and collaborate on all the information (e-mail, IM, files, and so on) related to executing a specific task with your professional network.
With Lotus Connections Version 1.0.2, these components can be deployed using additional operating systems, browsers, and directories. Users can also now access some of these services from plug-ins for Lotus Notes®, Lotus Sametime®, Microsoft® Office, Microsoft Explorer, and WebSphere® Portal, or developers can utilize the APIs to add the power of social software to their applications.
By empowering your people to easily connect to employees, partners, and customers, Lotus Connections helps you realize following professional and business benefits:
- Tasks can be executed faster because you have quick access to information from an expanded professional network.
- Decisions can be made with confidence knowing they were vetted by experts across the organization and reflect past experience.
- Customer communities can increase revenue through stronger relationships and faster validation of new products and services.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections for details.
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| Planned availability dates |
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- November 16, 2007: Electronic software delivery
- December 14, 2007: Media and documentation
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| Description |
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Lotus Connections is social software that lets you utilize the collective knowledge of your organization by dynamically building new connections between people, the information they know, and the activities they are executing.
Existing customers around the world and new businesses just starting to deploy social software will appreciate the following new features of Lotus Connections Version 1.0.2:
- Expanded support for more operating systems, more browsers, and more directories, so you can easily deploy and integrate social software across your diverse organization
- Plug-ins for Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer, and WebSphere Portal, so people can interact with their professional networks from the tools they use every day
- A rich API based on the REST and Atom standards, which will allow other applications to utilize the profiles, community, bookmarking, blogging, and activity services of Lotus Connections
- A new pilot installation that gets you up and running quickly so users can start expanding their professional networks, sharing ideas, and increasing their productivity right away
Lotus Connections includes five integrated components that are accessed via a browser or through e-mail, instant messaging, and portal software that you may already be using today.
Profiles
- Search for people across your organization by name, phone number, location, or job title and view business card information.
- Find people based on their expertise by searching keywords in their profiles that reflect their knowledge and responsibility.
- Send a person an instant message by clicking on their contact information.
- From a person's profile, link to the bookmarks they have shared, the communities they have joined, the blog postings they have made, and the activities you have in common.
- If used internally, view and navigate the reporting structure of your organization.
- Populate Profile information from back-end systems using Tivoli® Directory Integrator.
Communities
- Create, find, and join communities of people that share a common responsibility or expertise.
- View community members and share relevant bookmarks with the community.
- Subscribe to updates in a community from feedreaders.
- Use tags to assign descriptive keywords to your community so it is easy to find.
- Browse for communities by categories such as Recent, Popular, and Alphabetical.
Blogs
- Create a Web blog where you or a group can post information for other people to read.
- Create blogs from a template and switch to a different template later.
- Allow moderated or unmoderated comments on your entries in your blog.
- Enable SPAM prevention using lists of restricted words or phrases.
Dogear
- Save a bookmark, as either private or shared, from your browser to a server so it can be accessed by you or others later.
- Filter your list of bookmarks by tags or keywords so you can find them faster.
- View all bookmarks that have been shared by others and filter them by tags, most recent, and popularity.
- Search bookmarks by keywords or descriptive text.
- Subscribe to an expert's bookmarks so you can learn from them or to a tag so you can keep up to date on a topic.
Activities
- Use the Activity dashboard to view and prioritize all your individual and team activities.
- Filter and view your activities by keyword, priority, and status.
- Start a new activity and set goals, due date, and tags for it.
- Add relevant activity entries, including messages, e-mails, tasks, files, instant messages, and Web links to an activity.
- Organize activities according to how you work, adding activity entries as they happen, or providing comments to existing entries.
- Invite others to participate to an activity so they can view the information and add entries to get the task done quickly.
- Notify another user when an item has been added to a task.
- For repeating activities, create a template that can contain entries, todos, tags, and members.
In addition to the five components, Lotus Connections has the following common features that make it easy to use and increase the overall value.
- Users can tag information (blog entries, profiles, communities, bookmarks, and so forth) in Lotus Connections. A tag is a word you choose to describe and categorize an item so it can be easily retrieved later.
- Tag clouds can be used to filter information shown on a Lotus Connections page so you can focus on your activity.
- Updates to communities, activities, Dogear, and blogs are provided through Atom feeds so you can view new information in your feedreader.
- Components can be accessed through browser interfaces or through existing applications such as IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, and IBM WebSphere Portal.
- Lotus Connections runs on WebSphere Application Server 6.1, which provides scalability and security needed to run critical business applications.
Lotus Connections is available in two licensing models. For internal use by employees and contractors, Lotus Connections can be purchased on a per authorized user basis. For external use by an organization's customers and partners, Lotus Connections can be purchased using a processor Value Unit model. For more details, refer to the license agreement.
IPLA and Subscription and Support considerations
IPLA licenses can be transferred from one machine to another within, but not limited to, an enterprise. You may aggregate the capacity for all the processors the product is operated on to achieve a more economic price. This will result in a single Proof of Entitlement (PoE). It is your responsibility to manage the distribution of Value Units within the limits of the entitlement of the product license.
Subscription and Support must cover the same capacity as the product license entitlement.
Subscription and Support will be available in the country in which the agreement is made.
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| Product positioning |
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IBM Lotus Connections, a social software offering, complements the other collaboration and composite
application offerings from IBM. For example, Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections can be used
together to address a company's collaboration requirements that span from formal, role-based team
workspaces to informal community-driven social networks.
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| Reference information |
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Refer to Software Announcement
207-112
, dated May 15, 2007.
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| Availability of national languages |
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Product description Language GA date
Lotus Connections Multilingual December 14, 2007
V1.0.2 (English
International,
French, Korean,
Chinese --
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German, Japanese,
Chinese --
Traditional,
Italian)
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IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training Web site
Call IBM training at 800-IBM-TEACH (426-8322) for catalogs, schedules, and enrollments.
IBM Software Services for Lotus® Education provides education to support many Lotus offerings. For a complete list of offerings visit the Web site at
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® Web site
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| Publications |
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No publications are shipped with this product.
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
IBM Lotus Connections requires the following minimum hardware for Intel® based configurations:
- IBM-compatible x86-32 processor
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 GB hard drive space
IBM Lotus Connections requires the following minimum hardware for AIX®/pSeries® configurations:
- POWER5
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 GB hard drive space
Software requirements
Server side operating system
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ Enterprise Server (ES) V4.0 on x86-32 (Nahant Update 4)
- Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Server — Standard
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server — Enterprise
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on Intel
- IBM AIX 5.3.0.4 64-bit OS
Client side operating system
- Microsoft Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 XGL
- Microsoft Windows Vista® Ultimate
- Macintosh OS X 10.4.8
Web browser support
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 on Microsoft Windows XP Pro
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (Microsoft Windows and Linux and MAC OS X 10.4.8)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
Application server1
- IBM WebSphere® Application Server V6.1.0.31
HTTP server1
- IBM HTTP Server from WebSphere Application Server V6.1.0.31 (IHS)
LDAP directory
- IBM Tivoli® Directory Server (ITDS) 6.0.0.3
- Microsoft Active Directory 2003 Service Pack 2
- IBM Lotus Domino® LDAP Server 7.0.2
- IBM Lotus Domino LDAP Server 8.0
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Sun Java™ System Directory Server 5.2
- Formerly Sun ONE Directory 5 (iPlanet 5.2)
Database
- IBM DB2® V9.1 Fix Pack 21
- Oracle 10g 10.2.0.3
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise
Feedreader
- Must support ATOM Protocol
Security
- Tivoli Access Manager 6.0
For Profiles only
- IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator V6.1.0.1 (6.1 with fixpack 1)
- 1
- Bundled with IBM Lotus Connections with a restricted license for use with IBM Lotus Connections only
Planning information
Software Maintenance is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Product upgrades and technical support are provided by the Software Maintenance offering as described in the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software and technical support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
IBM includes one year of Software Maintenance with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Maintenance can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
Packaging: This product is available through IBM Passport Advantage in a Passport Advantage media pack or via electronic download. Publications are not shipped with the product.
The LI form number for IBM Lotus Connections is L-DCOR-77ZMJ2.
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features,
administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication
facilities.
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Product information
Product
Licensed function title Product group category
IBM Lotus Connections IBM Lotus IBM Lotus
Connections Connections
IBM Lotus Connections Activities IBM Lotus IBM Lotus
Connections Connections
IBM Lotus Connections Profiles IBM Lotus IBM Lotus
Connections Connections
PID Charge unit
Program name number description
IBM Lotus Connections 5724-S68 SubCapacity
Processor Value
Unit (PVU)
IBM Lotus Connections 5724-S68 Processor Value
Unit (PVU)
IBM Lotus Connections 5724-S68 Authorized
Users
IBM Lotus Connections Activities 5724-S68 Authorized
Users
IBM Lotus Connections Profiles 5724-S68 Authorized
Users
Charge metrics definitions
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Processor (Value Unit)
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Authorized user
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Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM Lotus Connections
Part
Part description number
IBM Lotus Connections Profiles
Lotus Connections Authorized Users D615BLL
License and SW Maintenance 12 Months
Lotus Connections Authorized Users D6159LL
License and SW Maintenance 12 Months
Lotus Connections Authorized Users E03VFLL
SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
Lotus Connections Authorized Users SW D615ALL
Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Months
IBM Lotus Connections
Part
Part description number
IBM Lotus Connections Activities
Lotus Connections activities Authorized D6157LL
Users License and SW Maintenance 1
Lotus Connections activities Authorized D6155LL
Users License and SW Maintenance 1
Lotus Connections activities Authorized E03VELL
Users SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
Lotus Connections activities Authorized D6156LL
Users SW Maintenance Reinstatement
IBM Lotus Connections
Part
Part description number
IBM Lotus Connections
Lotus Connections Authorized Users D6158LL
License and SW Maintenance 12 Months
Lotus Connections Authorized Users E03VJLL
SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
Lotus Connections Authorized Users SW D615ILL
Maintenance Reinstatement 12 Months
Lotus Connections Processor Value Unit D615JLL
(PVU) License and SW Maintenance 12 M
Lotus Connections Processor Value Unit E03VKLL
(PVU) SW Maintenance Annual Renewal
Lotus Connections Processor Value Unit D615KLL
(PVU) SW Maintenance Reinstatement
Passport Advantage supply
Part
Program name/description number
Lotus Connections V1.0.2
Lotus Connections Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, AY002ML
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Lotus Connections V1.0.2
Entitled maintenance Part
offerings description Media packs description number
IBM Lotus Connections Lotus Connections Red Hat AY002ML
Activities per Enterprise Linux ES, SUSE
Authorized User Linux Enterprise Server
IBM Lotus Connections Lotus Connections Red Hat AY002ML
per Authorized User Enterprise Linux ES, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server
IBM Lotus Connections Lotus Connections Red Hat AY002ML
per SubCapacity Enterprise Linux ES, SUSE
Value Unit Linux Enterprise Server
IBM Lotus Connections Lotus Connections Red Hat AY002ML
per Value Unit Enterprise Linux ES, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server
IBM Lotus Connections Lotus Connections Red Hat AY002ML
profiles per Enterprise Linux ES, SUSE
Authorized User Linux Enterprise Server
Sub-capacity
IBM Lotus Connections
Part
number Part description
D61VCLL Lotus Connections SubCapacity Processor
Value Unit (PVU) License and SW Main
E047HLL Lotus Connections SubCapacity Processor
Value Unit (PVU) SW Maintenance An
D61VDLL Lotus Connections SubCapacity Processor
Value Unit (PVU) SW Maintenance Re
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Administration SC32-1430
Problem Determination SC32-9102
Data Dictionary SC32-1432
Release Notes SC32-1429
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IBM Lotus Connections 5724-S68 L-DCOR-77ZMJ2
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Product name IBM Lotus Connections No
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