Conference Summary

IBM Connect - 2016Orlando

Connections Next

Consistent header for quick access to important people

and groups Mail moves to a card interface

Persistent access to calendar

Connections and Verse now integrated into

a single seamless interface

Available On-Premise 2nd Half

2016

Quickly see all your interactions with specific people

across the social platform

Actions and follow-up items

Action CenterAn IBM Connections version of notifications

Cognitive

Watson Adds Tone Analysis for VerseDemonstrates one of many ways in which cognitive computing (Watson) can be applied to add value to mail.

Smarter Calendars

Analysis of meetings and their health accompanied by

recommendations

Personal Assistant

Recommendation on how best to handle meeting conflicts

based upon an analysis of attendees

Personal Assistant

Identification of key text turned into

single click actions

Personal Assistant

Identifies potential matches stored in

cloud file store

Message text linked to a potential actionMessage text linked to a potential action

Calendar In-box

Invitations ordered by date of event not

time of arrival

Mobile

Many of the same features and look

and feel brought to native mobile applications

3rd Party Integration

Integration with BOX for Cloud Storage.IBM may struggle to establish a market position that ensures Connections Files gains widespread support an integration. Integration with BOX and others may reduce the risk of building data silos.

3rd Party Integration

This list alone is pretty impressive if

IBM can deliver

Project Toscana

Project Toscana is potentially IBM’s answer to slack.

Road Map

Improved touch support

Support for retina displays

Windows 10

Java 8

Improved calendar interoperability(with winmail.dat)

Template updates

Notes 102nd Half 2016

Support for modern devices is a game

changer keeping Notes client applications usable

for a few more years.

IBM Mail support for Outlook GA(aka Project Hawthorn)

Store database views outside NSF

Support Microsoft file types(e.g. winmail.dat, message, mail)

JVM 8

Domino 102nd Half 2016

A few nice enhancements. The big

news is the expansion of Domino to provide on-

premise Verse.

Java 8 and latest versions of Bootstrap, DOJO, CK Editor, ACF, OSGI

Document encryption and signing

Relational data sources

Responsive Design (Bootstrap)

Integration with Bluemix(Deploy directly to Bluemix)

Open sourcing of (most) code

Domino Designer 10

2nd Half 2016

Some much needed catch-up to incorporate

the latest versions of other products now

integrated into Domino.

Verse Offline

IBM Mail support for Outlook(aka Project Hawthorn)

Safari on El Capitan

Edge on Windows 10

Improved interoperability with Exchange calendar

Administrators Can Control ACLs of mail files

Connections Cloud

1st Half 2016

Will be useful to more people with Outlook

client and access from Mircrosoft and Apple’s

browsers.