IBM SmartCloud Engage Advanced combines enterprise-class email, calendaring, instant messaging, web conferencing, file sharing and social business services in an easy to deploy, simplified package. With SmartCloud Engage Advanced, you benefit from essential and effective collaboration tools in a security-rich environment that help simplify and improve your daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues

SmartCloud Engage Advanced includes:

• Powerful business-class email
• Calendaring and scheduling
• Instant messaging
• Web meetings
• Business social networking capabilities
• File storing and sharing
• Contact management
• Project management
• Easy-to-use administration tools
• Communities
• Global services offered in 22 languages
• Choose the optional SmartCloud Traveller for Notes to access email from various mobile devices including Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Windows Mobile, GoogleAndroid and Nokia Symbian mobile devices.
• Choose the optional SmartCloud Notes Hosted BlackBerry Service with or without BlackBerry Mobile Data Services to access email, calendar and contacts from your BlackBerry device

Recent Blog Posts

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IBM Social Business commercial on YouTube Fri, May 24th 2013 11:47a Chris Miller I saw a link for an IBM Social Business ad that is also found on YouTube. It raised some interesting thoughts and questions about how no exact software, service or platform was ever specified, just come visit the site to let us help you. The site itself then has trials, demos and solutions included with some benefits of being more social. I did appreciate one comment at 37 seconds into the one minute ad: By 2014 nearly four out of five businesses plan to invest in social technology Doesn't [read] Keywords: domino ibm email

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Tracking IBM Lotus technotes, hotfixes and fixpacks Thu, May 23rd 2013 11:45a Chris Miller It has always been hard to track the growing list of technotes, fixpacks, hotfixes and SPR's that IBM Lotus collaboration software has. Over the years I have made my own tools: Lotus Support Mega Feed sidebar widget Lotus Tech Documents feed on Twitter using Yahoo Pipes Blogger and technical search widget right from inside your client SNAPPS and IdoNotes enhanced search plug-in for Lotus Notes So as you see it has evolved over the years as the material to collect grows and the capabiliti [read] Keywords: collaboration domino ibm ldd lotus notes blogger twitter widget

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How developers prepare to present, they hoist their pants Wed, May 22nd 2013 10:18a Chris Miller From IamLUG 2013 comes Kathy Brown and Troy Reimer of PSC Group in this little gem of a picture I wanted to make sure made it out of the photo streams. They jointly did a great presentation on Don't Roll Your Own, Integrate..Collaborate On the Ground and in the Clouds. However, their simultaneous prep was too funny [read] Keywords:

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Connectria ranked top 2012 cloud provider ahead of Rackspace, Google and Amazon Tue, May 21st 2013 8:14a Chris Miller Connectria is happy to announce we were ranked the number one cloud provider in response time and availability aggregated for 2012 by CloudSleuth.net ahead of Rackspace, Google and Amazon. From Sys-Con: Connectria Hosting, a global managed and cloud hosting provider with cloud data centers in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Dallas, has been recognized as the 2012 Top U.S. Cloud Provider as reported by ReadWrite.com. Connectria’s Cloud received the highest overall ranking when measured by av [read] Keywords: lotus google

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Qantas now four years into migrating off Lotus Notes - will it ever end? Mon, May 20th 2013 1:27p Chris Miller Qantas is in another article about migrating off of Lotus Notes. Now into their fourth year it appears to me they didn't understand how deeply integrated Notes was in their environment for daily operations according to a Delimiter article. While they finished moving email users in 2012, the applications are taking their toll. The nation’s largest airline Qantas has revealed that it’s still in the process of migrating its corporate email platform off IBM’s Lotus Notes/Domino [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes applications email exchange exchange google microsoft office outlook

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Fellowes I-Spire Series Tablet Lift (9311301) review Mon, May 20th 2013 11:03a Chris Miller The Fellowes I-Spire Series Tablet Lift (model 9311301) is a one piece stand for your tablets, phones and other devices that do not exceed 1/2" thick. It will support the iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Kindle and more in both landscape and portrait modes. I found it handy for setting the iPad almost level with my monitor to provide another screen, as shown in the video. It was stable and did not have the bounce I expected when first opening the box and seeing the Fellowes I-Spire Series Tablet Lift. [read] Keywords:

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Copy.com offers 15GB free cloud storage to new accounts - link inside Thu, May 16th 2013 12:06p Chris Miller I have been using Copy.com as an alternative to Dropbox for splitting work and personal storage. Right now Copy.com is offering 15GB free cloud storage for new accounts. The performance of the service on Copy.com has been great. Upload speeds have been quick and folder management easy. I am waiting on their mobile apps to be released to make it even better. All the sites offer different upgrades and enhancements like password protection of files, expiring shared links, and more. So why d [read] Keywords: mobile password

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IamLUG 2013 Keynote replay now available Tue, May 14th 2013 10:03a Chris Miller The IamLUG 2013 keynote with Louis Richardson of IBM and Kirk Bowman of Zipline is now available for replay on YouTube. Louis is an excellent storyteller and social whisperer that draws you in covering creative ideas. Kirk follows with making good social choices. This is an excellent keynote for technical and managers alike. Subscribe to all of the Spiked Studio / IdoNotes shows on YouTube. You can also subscribe to the keynote playlist and catch up on may user group keynote events. [read] Keywords: ibm

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Choosing between Notes 9.0 Social Edition and Microsoft Outlook 2013 - White Paper Mon, May 13th 2013 10:15a Chris Miller IBM has released a white paper titled Choosing between Notes 9.0 Social Edition and Microsoft Outlook 2013 from the IBM Software Group Competitive Project Office. For the most part, both IBM Notes and Microsoft Outlook perform well when handling typical email, calendaring, and contact management tasks. But when we step beyond those standard Personal Information Management (PIM) tasks, IBM Notes really starts to shine. It all starts with Notes’ renowned security, customizability, and distr [read] Keywords: calendaring domino ibm notes application eclipse email microsoft office outlook security

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IBM.com Connections servers gets it first spammer Sat, May 4th 2013 11:19p Chris Miller A large number of us received some spam notices from the IBM.com Connections server this past week. I was surprised to see this enter my stream and send my email notifications from the main IBM Connections environment: naomi bashir posted a message to you: naomi bashir Hello dear new friend, My name is Naomi Bashir a good looking girl.I have a special reason of contacting you which i will make known to you, Please write to my email address box: (bashirnaomi@yahoo.com)so that I will tell you [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus email server