One view of 10 Top Adcancements in 2009 for future of Notes and Domino.

Brent Peters  December 16 2009 09:56:32 AM

0. (doesn't count in the 10, but important). We preserve the legacy of the Notes and Domino application set over the past year, and that legacy support will move forward in the future.

1. Expeditor - ok, I know this came before 2009 even, but this is an investment that keeps on giving. It is an investment in our Notes platform strategy that will keep on giving in future years to come. We can do more rich or web client integration into this platform than any other competitor in the industry. In terms of the future, I see our leverage of the embedded browser being more important over time, you will see examples of this later in this top 10 list also, think xPages. We have seen SAP (Alloy) integration, Sametime Unified Telephony, Quickr, Symphony, other third parties (linked In, trip it, ...). All possible from Expeditor, and all paying off handsomely in the 2009 timeframe.

2. xPages - support for xPages, I will call out separately, for different reasons. The importance of xPages for the future is HUGE. I can see opportunities for Dojo controls, multiple data source support, mashups, integration across the entire Lotus, and even non-Lotus portfolio, a HUGE improvement in user experience of Domino web applications. Now, because of Expeditor, support for xPages for the Notes Standard Client. So this will be huge for User Experience, for Flexibility of Mashing up information from other data source and other systems. Extending Domino and bridging it with other open systems. So in terms of future integration with products, customers or BPs/ISVs that leverage xPages will have a wonderful opportunity for seemless integration with the Collaboration suite of products from Lotus.

3. Domino Total Cost of Ownership - DAOS, ID Vault, SSO. This is a huge opportunity to sell and upgrade accounts to the latest versions of the Notes and Domino product. It is also a critical piece of our efforts in the future of Notes and Domino in ANY cloud based environment.

4. Traveler / Mobile - the deployment of traveler has been very well received. iPhone support was a huge buzz all year long, and the feedback in terms of quality of the support was very nicely received by the Lotus dev team. Going forward I see that future importance of our Mobile strategy really picking up steam. Stay tuned, but we have made significant traction this year. Think also the applications that are build by RIM, and IBM(sametime, connections, ...).

5. Marketing - One of my biggest complaints, and complaints  from some of my colleagues outside the company, e.g. (BB), or (B2) as I call him, helped a lot of discussion internally. While there is a lot more work we need to be doing, the "Lotus Knows" campaign is certainly off to a good start. I think that this was a huge and important step forward in 2009, and I see this seeding as a going forward in a big way in   2010 and beyond.

6. Notes 8.5.1 - the upgrades in the field for Notes and Domino, but especially Notes has been SIGNIFICANT to say the least. The deployment rate and adoption of Notes  8.0.2 and 8.5, were huge. We have had customers all over the world, including some of those GEOs that would traditionally be slow to upgrade, upgrading at a break neck pace. What took people 6-8 years to deploy over the 6.5 and 7.X releases, these people have been upgrading to 8.X within about a 1-2 year period. With feedback, issues, ... we have a superb release with Notes 8.5.1. The feedback has been very positive in terms of quality, and selective features for User Experience.

7. Widgets - just like xPages, is a pivotal investment into our client app dev strategy going forward. Widgets, more importantly the Widget catalog, is an important technology going forward in the future. While the Widget catalog, was there from 8.0.1 and  8.0.2, the deployment of the Widget catalog at customers sites, and the value that the customers see, and the investment in that deployment, presents a huge opportunity for us in the future. There will be more information to come around this at upcoming events, I hope to share. Think of this. If I can deploy Widgets. If I can deploy application components like (Alloy). Can I also push out applications that are integrated into Notes? Could this be used in the future as a way or option that customers could introspectively manage applications and components within Notes Standard?

8. Cloud - As IBM Lotus, is looking at the significant investments and rewards that we have been receiving in Cloud (Lotus Live ...), it is important for us to see the value of Total Cost of Ownership that stems from this and gets instantiated  back into the On-Premise set of Lotus Notes and Domino set of products. The investment, successes, and value of Lotus Live, will pay off in our competitive nature of Cloud Computing, but also in terms of On-Premise TCO.

9. Symphony - Release of quality of Symphony 1.3, was important, but more important was Symphony 2.0 now moving towards an Open Office org 3.x codebase, is a huge leap forward for the quality, compatibility, and community. This will allow for the sharing of efforts, and strengthen the whole community moving forward.

10. Innovation - The innovation that we have been doing moving forward, will preserve the legacy, and will allow for a play of all of these pieces above together in a much more integrated way.  This is unseen, heard, ... but I am very much impressed but the opportunities for our future ahead.

11. Your choice __________ - I left the 11th, slot, a free one, for people that have their own opinions on what was important moving forward. ??????? fill in here ______________________

Frankly, there was just so much done, that I found it hard to squeeze things in. There is a lot more left unsaid, but tried a good shot from my perspective.

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