Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Demos, betas and big news from Lotusphere - plus much more!

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SPECIAL THIS MONTH:
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM LOTUSPHERE 2012

Also in this issue: Register for Pulse – while there's still timeImpact Early-Bird savingsIBM goes Agile, saves $300 millionData warehouse e-bookOMEGAMON webcast seriesCloud for midsize businessBusiness Analytics Virtual LaunchCognos cranks on POWER7Fast answers to ‘how to’ questionsPlan for software success in 2012

PLUS more news and content based on your interests!



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IBM Connections 'Next'   IBM Connections ‘Next’ creates a single, integrated, smarter social workplace

IBM Connections ‘Next’ lets users interact with company content like email and calendaring, plus third-party content and applications – all from within the same social networking interface, without switching programs or context. And built-in analytics identifies and prioritizes the content that’s most important to each user.

Read more about Connections ‘Next’ in The New York Times and The BrainYard.

Read the IBM press release
SmartCloud for Social Business   LotusLive is becoming IBM SmartCloud for Social Business

IBM LotusLive™ offerings will soon become part of the IBM SmartCloud portfolio, offering customers an even simpler way to purchase and access business-grade, cloud-based social business capabilities – including social networking, online meetings, instant messaging, email and more.

Learn all about it
IBM Docs Beta   Collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the cloud – try the IBM Docs beta

A cloud-based productivity suite, IBM Docs lets teams inside and outside the firewall share documents, co-edit in real-time, assign document sessions to individual users and much more. IBM Docs will be added to IBM SmartCloud for Social Business later this year – but you can try the beta now as part of the LotusLive 60-day free trial.

Try the IBM Docs beta today
Mobile collaboration software   Access your social business networks and content wherever you go, on your smartphone or tablet

IBM mobile collaboration software supports Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Microsoft® Windows® Mobile and Nokia Symbian-based devices – and will soon support Windows Phone on Nokia and HTC devices. Watch a recorded Lotusphere® breakout session for more on IBM's mobile collaboration strategy.

Replay the video on Livestream
Customer Experience Suite V8 Beta   The exceptional web experience just got more exceptional – download the beta

New capabilities in IBM Customer Experience Suite V8 provide even more power to deliver the right content to the right audience at the right time – plus statistical tools that let you monitor the effectiveness of content in real-time. Watch a recorded presentation and demo from Lotusphere.

Try it yourself – download the beta
Notes Domino Social Edition   See what’s ‘next’ for Notes and Domino: New Lotus Notes and Domino Social Edition

IBM Lotus® Notes® and Domino® Social Edition (previously called Notes and Domino ‘Next’) lets you interact with any workflow process from within your inbox, without switching applications – and includes a plug-in for running Notes applications, unmodified, in a browser. The new release will enter beta this quarter.

Read more on Ed Brill’s blog
Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 Upgrade   Be free. Work smart. Upgrade now to Lotus Symphony 3.0.1.

This latest release adds support for 1 million spreadsheet rows, new chart types, and more bullet and numbering styles – plus it opens password-protected Microsoft Office 2007 document files. Learn about all the enhancements in this new release.

Get the upgrade
Lotusphere Opening General Session   See all these new products, and more: Watch the Lotusphere Opening General Session

Replay the entire Lotusphere 2012 Opening General Session – featuring special guest speaker Michael J. Fox, demos of new IBM social and collaboration software, and testimonials from customers who are already realizing big value from social business.

Register and watch the video
Pulse 2012   Rethink IT, reinvent business, and recharge your professional network at IBM Pulse 2012

Join 8000+ peers, industry experts and IBM senior leaders for four days of top-notch education. Be inspired by guest speaker and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. And party the night away at Pulse Palooza, our annual networking event – featuring Grammy Award-winning Maroon 5!

Join us March 4-7 in Las Vegas – register NOW
Register Early for Impact and save   Catch Early Bird savings for Impact 2012 – before they’re gone

Learn how world-class technologies turn complexity and change into business advantages. Choose from robust technical and business content tracks. Advance your career through networking, certifications and more. And save US$300 off the regular conference fee when you register by March 2.

Register now and save!
IBM's Agile transformation   IBM makes its own Agile transformation – and saves US$300 million

How do you make one of the world’s largest development organizations more nimble, efficient and cost-effective? With an Agile environment featuring IBM Rational® Team Concert™ for collaborative development, Rational Asset Manager for component reuse, and IBM Connections for messaging and meetings.

Watch on YouTube
E-book Think outside the warehouse   Free IBM e-book: Thinking outside the data warehouse

Examine five customer scenarios that illustrate why more and more businesses are looking at real-time information in a broader context – and combining analytical and transactional data to achieve true operational intelligence.

Register and download the e-book
OMEGAMON webcast series   Webcast series: Get deeper visibility into your enterprise with the latest OMEGAMON technology

Learn how significant updates to the OMEGAMON® product suite can help you decrease costs, improve productivity, minimize outages, reduce system overhead, decrease your maintenance window, and exploit the full capabilities of System z™ and zEnterprise™.

Next webcast February 9 (TOMORROW) – register now
Cloud for midsize business   Put the cloud to work for your midsize business – watch this three-minute demo

Everyone’s talking about cloud, but what is the value – and the risk – relative to your midsize business? Learn about a cloud-based offering that can help keep your distributed mobile workforce connected and responsive – and that you can implement in right-sized, affordable increments.

Register and watch the demo
Business Analytics Virtual Launch   Attend the IBM Innovations in Business Analytics Virtual Launch on March 7

Join us online as we unveil the very latest IBM analytics innovations – including the new IBM Cognos® Insight (available Feb. 7). Learn how this new personal analytics product delivers the power of Cognos to your desktop for independent exploration, ‘what-if’ modeling and sharing.

Register today and mark your calendar!
Cognos performance on POWER7   Cognos demonstrates proven performance on POWER7

This new technical white paper documents test results detailing IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1.1 performance and scalability on IBM POWER7® systems – and includes best practices you can apply to your own implementation.

Read the white paper (PDF, 1.67MB)
Multimedia training   Get instant answers to your Lotus, Rational and Tivoli ‘how to’ questions

Our Multimedia Training Libraries offer hundreds of video tutorials designed to help you master IBM Lotus, Rational and Tivoli® software. Attend one of our live, on-line weekly demos – and then try it free for 15 days.

Get the details
IBM Software Subscription and Support   Software Subscription and Support: Make it part of your 2012 business and IT strategy

Get ongoing access to the latest IBM software upgrades and capabilities. Download and deploy fast for rapid time-to-value. And count on reliable, responsive, 24x7 support. Build IBM Software Subscription and Support into your 2012 plans – and reap the rewards all year long.

Learn more
WebSphere Application Server V8 Free Trial   Try IBM WebSphere Application Server V8 free for 60 days

See for yourself how this latest release manages your application environment more intelligently – and lets you deliver innovated applications and rich user experiences faster than ever. This is a fully-functional trial with all features enabled.

Learn more and download the trial
Innovate 2012 Early Bird savings   Don’t miss Innovate 2012 – or the Early Bird registration discount

With 400+ technical sessions, plenty of hands-on workshops, thought-provoking keynotes and much more, Innovate 2012 is the software development and delivery event of the year. Register by March 14, 2012 to save US$200 off the regular registration fee.

Register early and save
5 Benefits of Agile for systems   White paper: Five benefits of Agile practices in software-intensive systems development

Learn how Agile methods can help software-intensive systems development teams streamline compliance, improve quality, predict timelines more confidently, boost productivity, and leverage existing tooling investments.

Register and read the paper
Retiring legacy applications   Successfully Retiring Legacy Applications: A Case Study – replay this webcast on demand

Learn how a customer used the IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Data Growth solution to successfully divest two legacy applications – an AS/400®-based application and a custom Oracle-based application – in three (3) months, with no disruption to the application user community.

Register and watch
Combat server sprawl   Combat hardware sprawl: Replay this webcast from the IT Budget Killer series

Server sprawl happens to the best of us. Conor O’Mahony, IBM Program Director for Database Software, explains how you can fight back by increasing utilization of your existing infrastructure and consolidating heterogeneous database environments.

Register and replay the webcast
WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V8   Ensure availability of critical applications with WebSphere Application Server V8 for z/OS

Learn how IBM WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS® exploits the z/OS platform to provide a highly available Java® environment – and how enhancements in V8 provide continuous availability and transactional integrity, even in the face of disaster.

Register and attend on February 16
System z at Pulse 2012   Mainframers: Pulse 2012 has more for you than ever before!

This year’s Pulse conference (March 4-7 in Las Vegas) includes a full Automated Operations Technical Council (AOTC) track, dedicated System z and zEnterprise sessions, a product showcase in the Expo Hall, and an exclusive System z Reception with a Mardi Gras theme!

Get the details – and register TODAY



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