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February 2010     SPECIAL REPORT: NEWS FROM LOTUSPHERE 2010 Build a better business by building connections. Build your Collaboration Agenda. Team up with LotusLive - and drive innovation in cloud-based collaboration Bring enterprise collaboration and social networking to your BlackBerry Deliver enterprise secure email to your Android, iPhone or Nokia Symbian smartphone Discover the ease of “click-to-conference” with Lotus Sametime 8.5 Take a sneak peek at the future of collaboration More news. Live demos. William Shatner! Watch the Lotusphere Opening General Session video. Also in this issue: IT Managers: What CIOs expect from you • Tap the wisdom of the Smart Work crowd • Drive revenue while controlling development costs • Download a new System z e-Kit • There's still time to "break away" • Fast, easy, smart technical support is here PLUS more content based on your interests! Stories In Detail   Build a better business by building connections. Build your Collaboration Agenda. The Collaboration Agenda from IBM is an industry-specific, structured approach for improving and streamlining the way your people interact and access information – and for transforming your company into an expertise-based organization. Find more information – including specifics for your industry   Team up with LotusLive - and drive innovation in cloud-based collaboration IBM Research and Lotus® have joined to form LotusLive™ Labs, a new proving ground for advances in business-driven, cloud-based collaboration – and a place where you can explore pre-alpha innovations. And later this year, IBM will make LotusLive APIs available to all IBM Business Partners. Read all the news from LotusLive   Bring enterprise collaboration and social networking to your BlackBerry BlackBerry® and Lotus customers have spoken – and RIM® and IBM listened! The BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Quickr™ and a new version of the BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections are now available. Learn more about Lotus software for BlackBerry   Deliver enterprise secure email to your Android, iPhone or Nokia Symbian smartphone New IBM Lotus Notes® Traveler Companion, free from the Apple® App Store, lets users view encrypted email on the Apple iPhone® (requires Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 software for synchronization). Lotus Notes Traveler also delivers enterprise email to Nokia Symbian smartphones, and will soon include mail, calendar and contacts support for Google™ Android™ versions 2.0 and 2.1. Learn more about these and other mobile solutions   Discover the ease of “click-to-conference” with Lotus Sametime 8.5 IBM Lotus Sametime® 8.5 includes a new online meeting experience that lets users start or join a conference with a single click. It’s just another reason more and more companies around the globe depend on Sametime unified communication and collaboration (UC²) technology to connect and collaborate in real time. Learn who's using Sametime and why   Take a sneak peek at the future of collaboration At Lotusphere IBM unveiled Project Vulcan – a “blueprint for the future of collaboration.” Read Lotus guru Ed Brill’s blog for links to first impressions from analysts, pundits and reporters – and to a video demo of Project Vulcan in action. Visit Ed Brill's blog   More news. Live demos. William Shatner! Watch the Lotusphere General Opening Session video. Hear insights and strategy directly from Lotus executives. See demos of products in development. Watch customers share real-world experience and success. And find out what Special Guest Speaker William Shatner knows about applause, poker, singing and - you guessed it - collaboration. Register and watch (2 hrs. 22 min.)   Smart Work Jam Report: Put the wisdom of the crowds at your fingertips At last September’s 72-hour IBM Smart Work Jam, 2000 people from 68 countries posted nearly 5000 thoughts on how people can work smarter together. Get a summary of the themes and insights that emerged – plus poll results, ideas for innovation, and much more. Register and get the report   IT Managers: Boost your career, add value to your business The IBM Global CIO Study 2009 revealed that CIOs have evolved from consummate IT experts to full-fledged business leaders. This white paper outlines the implications for IT managers, and recommends steps they can take to help themselves and their companies succeed. Download the paper (PDF) – no registration required   Drive revenue while controlling development costs - with help from Black Diamond Software and IBM Hear how Black Diamond's Presto software development appliances can provide a complete software development environment for your whole team - at a fraction of the risk, time and cost needed to implement on your own. Register and listen to the podcast   Find outlooks, insights and analysis for meeting critical challenges you face today Get the latest thinking on security technology, data warehousing and business intelligence. Learn how companies like yours are leveraging the mainframe for today’s applications and workloads. And find practical approaches for getting greater value and performance from your mainframe software investments. Download the System z™ for a smarter planet e-Kit   There's still time to break away from the pack with business analytics Couldn't join us for the live "Breaking Away with Business Analytics" virtual event in January? Replay the event any time it's convenient - and learn how leading companies are building and maintaining flexible platforms for trusted information, applying business analytics to make better decisions, and optimizing business performance enterprise-wide. Experience this virtual leadership exchange   Fast, easy, smart technical support is here – at IBM Support Portal The new IBM Support Portal provides fast, customizable access to all your technical support information and tools for IBM software (and for IBM systems and services, too). It’s your one-stop online technical support resource - and it’s free as part of your software product purchase. Learn more and try it yourself   Join the IBM Security team at RSA 2010, March 1-5 in San Francisco This year's RSA® Conference is the perfect place to learn how IBM is helping to secure a smarter planet. Attend IBM Tivoli General Manager Al Zollar’s keynote. Choose among nine IBM speaker-led sessions. Meet one-on-one with IBM executives. And get a free expo pass to the show floor when you use priority code SC10IBM at registration. Learn more and register today   Understand the business value of open collaboration in software delivery Today’s software delivery process involves multiple handoffs – each one an opportunity for errors and omissions that lead to rework, delays, and added expense. Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) can eliminate handoffs by allowing teams to collaborate seamlessly and communicate effectively – and by providing all stakeholders the project visibility they need. Download the paper (PDF, 480KB) – no registration required   Get a sneak preview of DB2 X for z/OS at a System z Technology Summit Whether you’re an IT manager, application developer, DBA or systems architect, the IBM System z™ Technology Summit has a learning track for you and your peers. Choose Track 2: DB2 for z/OS Technical Update for a live preview IBM DB2® X for z/OS®. Find more information and attend a summit near you   Find out what makes Linux and System z a winning combination When you consolidate Linux® workloads on the mainframe, you improve opportunities for enterprise-wide optimization – and leverage the best of both Linux and the mainframe to maintain a secure and flexible business. Find a wealth of resources at the redesigned and updated Mainframe Software for Linux page. Replay a recent Linux/System z teleconference   Turn customer interactions into money with predictive analysis What if you could predict what customers want before they ask – or know when they’re likely to leave, before they actually leave? IBM SPSS® Predictive Analytics reveal these and other insights – so you can take action at the point of customer contact, and drive smarter business outcomes. Read the white paper from Peppers & Rogers Group   Expand your DB2 skills at IDUG North America 2010, May 10-14 in Tampa Choose among 100+ hours of technical sessions hosted by DBAs, Gold Consultants, top IBM DB2 solution vendors, and the world's most sought-after DB2 experts. And don't miss the new 3-hour, hands-on, in-depth tutorial on new DB2 features for Linux®, Unix®, Microsoft® Windows® and z/OS® – offered at no extra cost. Visit idug.org today and reserve your place About this newsletter Manage your subscription Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Contact editor   Invest in yourself - and your business Get a spectacular ROI from Pulse 2010 Knowledge is power - invest accordingly. Learn why service management professionals can't afford to miss IBM Pulse 2010. Read the article Trade up to Rational® Quality Management Act now and get a discount on selected competitive trade up licenses. 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