SharePointLotus.net is Mainsoft’s blog dedicated to Microsoft SharePoint integration with IBM middleware – including Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, and WebSphere Portal.
developerWorks Podcast: Extending Rational Jazz with IBM Lotus Connections
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Jenna Dobkin pdeveloperWorks editor Scott Laningham just posted an interview with Chris Lamb, Senior Marketing Manager for IBMnbsp;Lotus Connections, and Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft's CEO.nbsp; They talk about thenbsp;benefits of integratingnbsp;IBM Lotus Connections with IBM Rational Team Concertnbsp;to expand communications about softwarenbsp;deliveriesnbsp;to includenbsp;business stakeholders and end users, in addition to technical teams worldwide.br /
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You can listen to the podcast at:nbsp; a href=ht [read] Keywords: connections
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SharePoint Integrator 2.5 New Features
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:05a Jonas Martinsson pToday, at the Lotusphere 2010 conference in Orlando, Mainsoft a href=http://www.mainsoft.com/content/press-releases/2010_01_19announced/a the upcoming 2.5 release of SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. The 2.5 release will pack some exciting new features, bound to turn heads. Read this post to find out the contents of the release and watch the video showing off some of the upcoming social features./p
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pstrongSharePoint 2010/strong, also scheduled for release by Microsoft during H1 20 [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to roll-out Notes 8.5 and SharePoint without rocking the boat?
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 8:55a Yaacov Cohen With the economy picking-up, the majority of Notes enterprises are finally upgrading to Notes 8.0.2 or Notes 8.5 and at the same time, rolling-out SharePoint to their enterprise users to improve collaboration. While for the IT professional, these changes are a refreshing and welcomed upgrade; for the average enterprise user, they are a disruptive and scary change. Notes 8 introduces a totally different user interface and SharePoint requires users to change their daily behaviour. So how central [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes v2.0.2
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 10:56a Jonas Martinsson A minor update to Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes has been released. SharePoint Integrator v2.0.2 introduces support for the latest Lotus Notes clients: v7.0.4 and v8.5.1. SharePoint Integrator was tested on Windows 7, although we still wait for Lotus Notes to officially support Microsoft’s latest operating system.
In addition, several customer bugs were fixed in this maintenance release. A full list of bug fixes are available in the release notes.
To update to t [read] Keywords: ibm
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German Webcast replay, and an introduction to our German partners
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 2:55p Jenna Dobkin We’d like to thank Lotus Notes customers in Germany who joined Mainsoft and our partners holistic-net, and TIMETOACTSoftware and Consulting for today’s virtual meeting.
Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, discussed user adoption challenges that Lotus enterprises face when deploying SharePoint. Most Notes users tend to resist adopting SharePoint because their user experience is scattered: SharePoint is difficult to access and difficult to use from a Web browser. To overcome th [read] Keywords: ibm
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Making Jazz Social
Wed, Oct 21st 2009 7:58a Jonas Martinsson Some months back, I posted our plans to add enterprise social features to the software delivery process. Today, I am showing you a screencast of our progress on integrating IBM Lotus Connections with IBM Rational Jazz.
The video below shows you how Jazz users have direct access to forums, wikis, blogs, file sharing and bookmark sharing, from within the Rational Team Concert web interface.
When you hover a Jazz user in Rational Team Concert you see a business card with information from bo [read] Keywords: connections
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Gartner Podcast: Driving SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Shops
Thu, Sep 10th 2009 10:55a Jenna Dobkin Thought you might be interested in hearing Matt Cain, Gartner’s lead email analyst, talk about integrating email with SharePoint in order drive mainstream user adoption in this free podcast. It’s 17 minutes long; here’s the gist:
· Gartner’s Cain shares his insights on the state of collaboration in today's enterprise; emerging SharePoint adoption trends; and the opportunity to integrate email with SharePoint in order to drive mainst [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Document Collaboration on the Rational Jazz Blog
Thu, Sep 3rd 2009 7:55a Jonas Martinsson Mainsoft’s Dekel Cohen has written a guest post about our Document Collaboration product for the Rational Jazz blog. Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz integrates team documents on SharePoint and Quickr with the Jazz software delivery platform. Dekel gives a great overview of the features in the new version and details an interesting use-case for the more advanced workflow features.
Read Dekel’s guest post here! [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Bringing SharePoint to Outlook
Mon, Aug 31st 2009 2:59a Jonas Martinsson Right now, one of the hot developments here at Mainsoft is extending the reach of SharePoint Integrator to Microsoft Outlook. The Integrator has previously been available exclusively for IBM platforms, but will now soon come to Outlook as well. From a Product Management perspective, the Outlook version requires some subtle design changes compared to Lotus Notes. In addition to tweaking icons and colors to match the target platform, the main differences are: First, the Outlook client lacks the na [read] Keywords: document
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SharePoint Integrator Analytics
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 7:55a Jonas Martinsson Do you know that SharePoint Integrator offers usage reports on its own efficiency in helping your organization to improve collaboration patterns?
With a trial or evaluation license (contact sales@mainsoft.com to get one), Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes 2.0.1 stores information about SharePoint operations initiated from the Notes sidebar panel. These reports give you a birds-eye view of how SharePoint usage shoots up as the organization’s SharePoint documents and cal [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How to Accelerate SharePoint Adoption among Mainstream Users?
Sun, Jun 21st 2009 10:59a Yaacov Cohen We have seen a lot of companies, this year, taking SharePoint to an enterprise-wide level. Not anymore just a departmental initiative using WSS but central IT driving the adoption of MOSS to increase collaboration and document sharing across the enterprise.
IT executives in charge of SharePoint, find that mainstream users are pretty slow at adopting SharePoint and they continue to share documents using email. First the web interface to SharePoint is pretty rudimentary and can be slow, in partic [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Introducing SharePoint Integrator v2.0; Mainsoft Virtual User Group Meeting
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 3:53p Jenna Dobkin Today, during Mainsoft’s virtual user group meeting, Yaacov Cohen, Mainsoft’s CEO, and Jonas Martinsson, a Mainsoft product manager:
· Discussed barriers to SharePoint adoption, and how to overcome these barriers by integrating Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime with SharePoint.
· Shared best practices from customers’ recent SharePoint Integrator deployments, as part of Lotus Notes upgrades and strategic SharePoint rollouts. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Bringing Social Networking to Jazz
Wed, May 27th 2009 9:52a Jonas Martinsson Enterprise social networking features will be added to the Rational Team Concert (RTC) development environment in our next release of Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz, as mentioned on SPTechBlog. With the announced version 2.0 of Document Collaboration, the RTC client will be capable of:
Accessing SharePoint My Sites, with links to blogs and wikis
Viewing SharePoint Personal Profiles
Using SharePoint People Search
These features will be added on top of the existing integration of Sh [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How Notes 8.5 & SharePoint Can Save You Storage Costs?
Tue, Apr 21st 2009 6:59a Yaacov Cohen I was talking with an IT executive in charge of collaboration in a Fortune 100 company. Surprise, surprise their main strategic initiative is to reduce IT costs for their 2010 budget so they are agressively rolling out Notes 8.5 to take advantage of the new DAOS technology .
The Domino Attachement and Object Service considerably reduces attachments duplication on a Domino server. Today, when you send a 10M attachement to 1,000 employees in your organization, Exchange or Domino (prior to 8.5) [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SharePoint Calendar Federation in Notes - Preview 2
Sun, Apr 5th 2009 10:49a Jonas Martinsson The second Preview release of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes 2.0 is now available! This new release, which integrates with Lotus Notes 8.5 Standard Configuration, lets you embed SharePoint calendars in Notes. You will now be able to create, edit and remove SharePoint events in the same way as you work with Notes calendar items.
I recorded a 3-minute video to show you how easy it is to collaborate around SharePoint calendars inside Notes using SharePoint Integrator:
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Will Microsoft and IBM Clouds Interoperate?
Wed, Mar 25th 2009 2:54p Yaacov Cohen In a sharp contrast to Google, Microsoft and IBM Lotus have both offered a software-plus-services approach to their Cloud offerings. Personal Information Managers (Outlook or Notes) running on local desktops (that's the "software" piece) are accessing hosted "services" over the Cloud: Microsoft SharePoint On Line or IBM Lotus Live.
We looked at both offering and were not surprised to learn that the IBM and Microsoft clouds lack even a basic level of interoperability.
For example, a Note [read] Keywords: document
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Virtual User Group Meeting
Wed, Mar 4th 2009 10:52a Yaacov Cohen Today, we have our first virtual user group meeting. We have had numerous Web Seminars during the past years but this is the first time we exclusively invited our SharePoint Integrator customers and prospects which have been using the product. We plan to do this at least once a quarter to share latest case studies, best practices and product releases. Today, we have more than 125 registrated participants!
I have attached the slides, please feel free to post questions about the subjects we wi [read] Keywords: composite
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One way to cut expenses: Notes 7-WSS co-existence!
Mon, Feb 16th 2009 12:52p Yaacov Cohen We just presented our co-existence strategy in two Lotusphere Come To You events in Munich and Dusseldorf with our German partner: TimeToAct. These were two excellent, well organized events, very well attended by large Lotus customers. We had two great sessions and some in-depth discussions with a number of customers.
Here is one interesting strategy being implemented by a large Notes enterprise: standardize on Windows SharePoint Services as a project management, team collaboration platfor [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Who needs co-existence if we have Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) ?
Wed, Feb 11th 2009 3:52p Yaacov Cohen Barb Mosher from CMS Wire asked this question, in a recent article. CMIS is the interoperability initiative from Microsoft, IBM and other vendors to come up with a vendor-neutrol web services interface to enable different Content Management systems coming from different vendors to talk to each other. It is great that both Microsoft and IBM realize that "customers struggle" and "must spend valuable time and money to solve the interoperability gap" and web services interfaces are definetely the w [read] Keywords: ibm
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SharePoint & Rational Jazz Co-existence
Wed, Feb 4th 2009 1:55p Yaacov Cohen This morning we had a web seminar, with Bernie Coyne from IBM Rational, introducing Mainsoft Document Management for Rational Jazz, SharePoint Edition. We are expending the co-existence concept to the Rational brand, integrating SharePoint document libraries and workflows to Rational Jazz, the new software development collaboration platform.
The idea, again, is to break the barriers between software platforms coming from Microsoft and IBM, providing freedom of choice to enterprises to pick a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Demo Video of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes 1.5
Thu, Jan 29th 2009 7:53a Jonas Martinsson Here is a demo video of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes 1.5, from the web conference on January 15. In it, you'll get a tour of the major product features and how they best leverage your existing company assets. Since the demo is 12 minutes long, I split it in two parts, to fit on YouTube. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2009's SharePoint-Lotus coexistence session
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 9:33a Yaacov Cohen We had a great session this morning at Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando, Florida. It was an early 7am session but we had a packed room with people standing. Paul Culpepper Lotus's executive and collaboration sales leader shared customers experiences around integration. I talked about the end-user pains and the loss in collaboration due to the lack of basic integration between Notes and SharePoint. I also went through how this can be solved. I have attached the slides. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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More than 300 attendees at last co-existence web seminar!
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 9:57a Yaacov Cohen Last week we had a web seminar with more than 300 people which attended on-line and more than 600 which registred. This was our third web seminar on co-existence between SharePoint & Lotus and this time we put the co-existence in the context of the economic downturn. We had more than 60 questions and a lot of great feedback. You can register and see the recording here and please feel free to ask questions by posting them as a comment. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Mainsoft Web Seminar on SharePoint and Notes
Wed, Jan 14th 2009 10:22a Jonas Martinsson Tomorrow at 11:00 AM Eastern (4:00 PM GMT), Mainsoft is presenting a web seminar on integrating SharePoint with Lotus Notes: "Achieving your '09 collaboration objectives while managing expenses".
Yaacov Cohen will present how to take advantage of your existing company assets while accelerating SharePoint adoption in today's challenging economy. In the same session, I will show a demo of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes, highlighting how it promotes team collaboration.
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Gartner Weighs in on Collaboration; Mainsoft at Lotusphere 2009
Sat, Jan 10th 2009 1:59p Jenna Dobkin The other day, I came across ZDNet’s in-depth coverage of Gartner’s Fall Symposium, in which Larry Dignan shared the insights and pearls of wisdom that Gartner advised CIOs attending the conference. At that time, Gartner reported that CIOs are cleaning house, eliminating projects that don’t deliver immediate value, and investing strategically in technologies like Collaboration and Social Networking that transform the way business gets done, reduce cost structures, a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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How I used SharePoint calendar federation in Notes 8.5
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 3:34p Yaacov Cohen In a recent post on this blog, Jonas shared with us his team's latest progress on SharePoint calendar federation in Notes. Here is a real use case:
I have been working on our next sales meeting agenda, which takes place next week. I created a meeting workspace for our sales meeting on our SharePoint site, added a calendar web part and created all the calendar events. Naturally, I want to enable our team members to be able to see the sales meeting calendar from their Notes client calendar.
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Use cases for saving Notes emails in SharePoint
Sun, Dec 28th 2008 10:44a Yaacov Cohen One of the themes, which consistently comes up when meeting customers using our latest SharePoint Integrator version 1.5, is the business use cases for saving Notes emails in SharePoint. It became common wisdom that we are sending and receiving far too many emails and that there are better ways to collaborate and share information than inflating the Inbox of your colleagues, customers, and board members.
For example, since the Sarbanes-Oxley act and other similar regulations, every public co [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Forrester Weighs in on SharePoint-Lotus Notes Coexistence
Thu, Dec 18th 2008 6:36p Jenna Dobkin Forty nine percent of firms participating in a recent study by Forrester Research said implementing a collaboration strategy is a priority or a critical priority. And yet, many Lotus Notes and Domino customers struggle to implement their collaboration strategy because they rely on SharePoint (the back end of Office) for team collaboration and document management.
If you’re visiting this blog, you know all too well that accessing/updating/publishing documents and emails on SharePoi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SharePoint Calendar Federation in Lotus Notes
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 3:04a Jonas Martinsson This week, version 1.5 of Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes was released. But instead of resting on our laurels here at Mainsoft, we’re already hard at work on the next release of the Notes plug-in. I’d like to give you a glimpse of one of the new cool features that’s in the pipeline: Calendar Federation.
For me, the most anticipated new feature in Lotus Notes 8.5 is calendar federation. For example, it allows you to subscribe to external iCal-based calendars and overlay Goo [read] Keywords: ibm
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