As anyone who follows should expect, the theme is social, social, social. Alistair Rennie kicked it off by introducing Michael J Fox. He’s as humorous as ever even as he talk the lighter side of life and Parkinsons Disease.
IBM defined social business as the applications of social tools and culture to a business, processes, and transactions. It includes the transactions themselves and the insights you can gain from them. It leads to an idea called collective intelligence. Collective intelligence enables you to
augment skills and improve workload
Discover insights into your business
Improve the process
It’s a competitive differentiator. It brings about new platforms, cultures, skills, and insights. It’s rethinking. It’s like Moneyball. Alistair makes the point that technology does matter, it’s just not the only part of the equation.
Key themes in the technology
Social networking
Content in motion (e.g social content)
Analytics
Process and information
All based on open standards so integration can occur to the social platform above
“Social Business is not an IT project. It cannot be a management edict.” It’s Business made Social
Emerging roles will include Community Managers.
Demos
IBM Connections Next will include
Improved Activity stream which is a single intelligent place that includes apps, external services, mails, feeds, etc.
access to a wide variety of apps that let you act on transactions and content from the stream itself. (really cool)
Showed ProjExec from Trilog in the activity stream
Showed a New Service Order from SAP in the stream that lets you act on it immediately
Viewed a file, shared it, etc. Even showed the ability to edit a document from the stream directly in the browser.
created an Activity and assigned sections of the document to other people
Read mail from your stream
Quick view of calendar (like Exchange and Domino)
Share always available
Community
New activity stream
Ability to post community status updates
Community owners have access to community metrics on people, participation, etc.
Real time group video (via Polycom technology although I’m sure others can do it)
Integration to ECM like Filenet
includes checkin and checkout, editing of metadata
Now shows related communities and allows you to associate your community to others. This would include internal and external communities
Example: question on facebook can be transferred to an internal community forum
Mobile experience for Connections looks really good
Newspaper like approach makes it easily readable
IBM Connections Mail
as noted before, can connect to Outlook and Notes
Pushes it all Connections in the stream
IBM docs can be in the cloud or on your computer
It’s part of a desire to unlock the content wherever it may reside
“SharePoint is a document coffin“
New Mobile Capabilities
Using Notes Traveler to do quick demo
New Symphony (IBM version of OpenOffice) viewers
Can upload from a connections app (he was using a tablet)
Showed the next release of the Connections app on Android
Has tighter integration with the hardware
make call, send email, share business card all from the Connections app
Sametime client can remain suspended in the background to save battery life
Uses Apple notification service when message comes in
Allows voip calls for voice and video
Polycom, Aruba, and other partners enable this
Also was using a Plantronics headset
Just added support for Windows phones on Nokia devices
Client Story
Bayer Material Science CIO, Kurt Derow spoke. Bayer Material sicence researches a lot of materials innovations like using CO2 as material input and making nanofoam. They decided to use IBM Connections and deployed small but quickly. Connections use grew virally to several thousand users and is now rolling out to over 125,000 users. Existing content will be migrated to Connections from other systems.
Operating a social business is changing a culture. Rather than use lists in excel to track users in a launch, they used tags in profiles to find for example key user and Melbourne. It’s much more than just technology. Psychology is involved as well. However, without easy to use technology they can’t make that next step.
Exceptional web Experience
Needs to be mobile, scalability, provide rich content, access to social communities, and access to analytics. IBM created the Customer Experience Suite to provide all of these items. New news. IBM Experience Suite next is now open. That includes PortalNext, WCMNext, and Web Experience Factory Next.
Demo
Started with a tablet as main input device
Mobile themes make it easier to take existing site and “mobilize it.
Includes resize as real estate change and as landscape or portait mode changes
Showed in context page management systems with access to authoring and analytics
Edited a content article in the iPad
Noted all of the out of the box features with themes, templates, etc.
Key takeaway is that you don’t need to start from scratch
Made changes to a video (that’s new in Next)
Then dragged a new article onto a slide bar
Showed new comments with highlights on content. That’s an interesting approach to using comments with more than just typing in a box
Showed dashboards with data coming from a variety of systems
Mashed with data coming from analytics, sentiment analysis, etc.
Was able to drill down into sentiment on a specific piece of content
Showed sentiment tracking on LS12 tweet. (It was positive)
Showed comments in the sentiment analysis
Highlighted that the site changes as the channel changes (move from table to laptop and it changes)
Includes the ability to incorporate comments etc.
Can turn on web analytics and show graphs inline for each piece of content. (looks really cool)
Shows survey results inline
Bryan notes that it will easiliy integrate to smarter commerce (I’m somewhat skeptical of this but probably need to dive deeper before final judgement)
Built a new page
Used a number of page templates
Like community
made it externally facing and includes a number of portlets like activity stream, members, blogs, discussions, voting, etc.
Key stats
Lufthansa processes 72,000 online transactions in 60 seconds
Adding social into customer service process improves satisfaction by 18%
See a 15% boost in revenue when implementing social
68% of people now access a social network through a mobile device
38% of mobile users make purchases via their device
Sandy Carter, “Websphere Portal plans to be THE social portal”
Denise Hatzidakis, CTO of Premier
Denise Hatzidakis, former Perficient rock star, spoke about what Premier is doing. Their key challenge is about health reform.
“My first grader doesn’t think twice about seeing online assignment, grabbing a tablet and talking with cousins oversees.”
A doctor may only have access to a limited amount of information.
Knowledge and numbers may not be the end all be all.
Once they have the intelligence, they need to find the triggers. “Shape the plume of data and define the world”
It requires collaboration across the industry. Today, healthcare sees a huge number of mistakes causing $18 billion on unnecessary expenses
Connected care is becoming the new normal
Premier wants to create an effective model for care and innovation
Notes and Domino Demos
Enhancing Notes and Domino incorporates activity stream mentioned previously
Lets in context content into your inbox
Other applications that support open social standard can send it into your inbox
Trilog
Lombardi business process
XPage apps can be emdedded
change content in the app
send the notification to mail
Interact with the content in your email
embed social services in your applications
this includes a number of objects available from xpage designer
Enhancing webmail and inotes
Putting Sametime client into iNotes
All the open social supported transactions are also supported in iNotes
Notes doc links which usually need the Notes client are now available as web pages. (Lots of excitement on this one)
Note: it needs a browser plugin to do this
Notes Social Edition coming soon
All notes users now entitled to Connections Profile and Files.
Xpages now uses Open Social
Can now run Notes DB’s on the web. Again, you get this via a browser plugin
New XWork Server
Winner of the Social Business Application Development: Trilog Group
Building open social gadgets for almost all their services like profiles, etc.
This seems like a very interesting way to extend those services outside of the IBM world
SmartCloud
Mike Rhodin, Senior VP in the IBM Software Group, spoke about the cloud. Cloud technologies represent opportunity to not only advance but reinvent IT. IBM has been investing in cloud capabilities for the past decade. This past fall, IBM launched IBM SmartCloud which is one location for all the Cloud offerings.
The newest addition to SmartCloud is LotusLive. LotusLive will join the SmartCloud as, “IBM SmartCloud for Social Business” (say that ten times fast).
Client GAD talks about his company and how they reach and connect with customers.
Banks rely on GAD to stay at the forefront of consumer changes
GAD noticed consumers using iphones, ipads and other devices.
GAD introduced WAVE.
first goals was to have banks become social businesses
enable banks to become independent of local client server environment
create new service models
cut expenses
Launched Bank 21 web is a browser based solution in a private banking cloud
solved the connectivity problem between a browser and all banking services
can be inside the bank and between client and banks. introduces new social capabilities
Shows customers new service
Introduces ECM capabilities
Based on WebSphere, IMS, and DB2
All in the cloud
Partner Award: Best Social Business Solution in the Cloud: Applicable Limited from the UK
Best of Lotusphere: Ascendant Technology
Guest Speaker
Dr. Jeffrey Burns, Chief of Critical Car at Children’s Hospital Boston.
Medicine 100 years ago became more scientific. Medical school and mentoring took off
We have doubled our life expectancy
Not much has changed. It’s the same school and mentoring.
But it doesn’t allow to scale this training and transactions
Dr. Burns has done consults all over the globe
Girl in Boston was critically ill with blood stream infection
was not responding to treatments
tried a few interventions and she lived
Girl in Guatemala City
Had same blood stream infection
Opened up a video to Dr. Burns but had a bad video link
Was able to give advice to help
three months later he saw a father, mother and little girl. this was the girl from Guatemala city.
This girl was saved using the internet
Sometimes technology provides a window into saving lives
Saw his son playing in teams with kids across the globe (Call of Duty of course)
There are serious eduational principles involved
form hypothesis, test it, get immediate feedback
Then saw the adult learning cycle on the Masters Website
Brought IBM Interactive in after seeing it.
Rational things to improve kids health
Immunize
Infrastructure
Need a solution for a resource limited environment
built a collaborative site
exists connected and disconnected
worked with IBM, MIT online courses, and Dr. Burns team
Provides information on demand for a reliable platform
Provides a social network to connect doctors around the world
Loyalty 3.0 is Out
Tue, Jun 18th 2013 6:19a Michael Porter Rajat Paharia just released his new book, Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification. Bunchball is a partner of ours and focuses on the gamification space. We’ve presented with him on this very topic several times. I just picked up my kindle version and will follow up with a review.
For now, feel free to pick up your version. I’ve always found his content interesting. [read] Keywords: linkedin
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Do or Die Questions Boards Should Ask About Technology
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 4:18p Michael Porter McKinsey recently posted a set of 9 questions all board should be asking about how technology is being used in their companies. It’s worth a read for all the questions and the additional detail they provide. I want to focus on the first four and some of the implications.
How will IT change the basis of competition in our industry?
What will it take to exceed our customers’ expectations in a digital world?
Do our business plans reflect the full potential of technology to improve our [read] Keywords:
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Becoming a Customer Company
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 10:18a Michael Porter Vivek Kundra, EVP at Salesforce and former United States CIO, talked about becoming a customer
Quote from IBM 2012 CEO Study
For some time, busienss have been refining and optimizing their networks of suppliers and partners. But something revolutionary has been happening — the sudden convergence of the cloud, social, and mobile spheres — connecting customers, employee and partners in new way.
This will involve fundamentally rethinking how you connect with your customers, partners, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Social Uses of Data
Fri, Jun 14th 2013 8:18a Michael Porter I’m at the Salesforce Customer Company tour. Before they started their main session, they brought a couple people up to talk about uses of social. Here are some quick notes on those interviews.
They started with a great example of a company which provides vaccines to a variety of third world countries. They use Salesforce Chatter and sensors in vaccine refrigeration units to track that the vaccines are viable when they arrive. If you want to talk about a use of social that pushes [read] Keywords: notes
12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds
Fri, Jun 7th 2013 8:22a Mark Polly Business Insider published an article titled “12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds” describing a McKinsey report about technologies that are disrupting the global economy. The image shown here summarizes the 12 technologies and provides a glimpse into the amount of technological improvement provided over the years.
Not surprising to me is that areas that affect Portal and Social are at the top of the list. Mobile Internet is the first example of technology that has [read] Keywords: mobile
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Social Technologies: The Business Payoff
Thu, Jun 6th 2013 1:18p Michael Porter I’m at an eWeek Sponsored half day session that focuses on Social Business. Marcia Connor was the first speaker. She’s a Principal at SensifyGroup (@marciamarcia). She focuses on helping people work at jobs that don’t suck.
One of the key problems is the sheer amount of data out there. The internet adds 34 Gigabytes each day. This information deluge means that 1 in 2 business leaders say they don’t have the information needed to do their jobs.
Our brains transf [read] Keywords: connections
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The Social Business Payoff
Thu, Jun 6th 2013 1:18p Michael Porter Jennifer Okimoto, an Associate Partner with IBM spoke about the social business payoff and gave a lot of examples on where it’s happening.
The knowledge based economy was originally coined in 1996. It came with the realization that computers and knowledge change how the work is done. Jennifer highlighted that a knowledge worker is not just someone in a cubicle farm. It could be an oil field worker, a sales person, a chemist., people in health care, and yes, people in cubicle farms.
em [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What is the pre-requisite skill set for learning Adobe CQ5?
Wed, May 29th 2013 11:18a Robert Sumner I am asked by clients all the time….what pre-requisite skill set is required to learn CQ5? The answer depends on the role.
In the web experience management world, there are several roles to consider: WCM/WEM architect, J2EE Integration Specialist, and CQ5 developer.
First the WCM/WEM Architect:
You need someone who’s done it using other WCM platforms. Someone with prior WCM implementation experience will know what to look for and what to avoid…and will have a good sense for h [read] Keywords: css
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