Lotus® Symphony™ 3: One Million Reasons to Give it a try

© 2012 IBM Corporation

Session Number: ID 107Lotus® Symphony™ 3: One Million Reasons to Give it a try

Eric OtchetProduct [email protected] Cindy KouDevelopment Manager

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Agenda

■ Lotus Symphony Overview

■ What's New in Symphony 3.0.1

■ Demo

■ Union Pacific Railroad Symphony Deployment

■ Apache and the OpenOffice Project

■ Demo

■ IBM Docs™ and Roadmap

■ Questions

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Freedom to createAn open, extensible programming model based on open source code

Support for multiple file formats and the ability to export to Adobe Portable Document Format® (PDF) files

Ability to easily interchange documents with Microsoft Office® and OpenOffice users

Freedom to chooseDesktop operating system (Microsoft Windows®, Linux®, Mac OS®)

Content management systems

Cloud environments

Programming languages and environment

Collaboration platforms (email, social, unified communications)

File formats (vendor specific vs. open standards based)

Don't let a tool that provides commodity function dictate your entire desktop strategy and choice of other applications

Lotus Symphony 3 software—flexibility and choice


Does your office productivity suite carry a high cost for software licenses?

It’s about value

IBM Lotus® Symphony™ 3 software provides the features

most people need at no charge—why pay more?

Does the suite provide high value for your organization for the amount you are paying?

Do most of your users use enough of the suite's features to justify the license cost?


Expensive upgrades

The Lotus Symphony 3 user interface will be familiar to many users. Its context-sensitive toolbars and sidebars make it easy to do common tasks.

What new value can Microsoft Office 2010® software provide for your organization versus the Microsoft Office 2003 suite?

Will the new ribbon interface in Microsoft Office 2010 software incur expensive retraining costs for your users?

Make the change to Lotus Symphony 3 software—and you can save on software licensing costs at the same time.


Featured on IBM.com


Lotus Symphony 3 software can meet the needs of almost all users in an organization


Lotus Symphony 3 software supports many IBM strategic initiatives

Lotus Symphony 3

Support for open standards/platform choice

− Lotus Symphony software supports the Open Document Format

− Lotus Symphony software supports Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS technology

Support for an open programming model

− Lotus Symphony software is based on Java and Eclipse technology

Support for open source software

− Lotus Symphony software is based on OpenOffice®.org

− IBM contributes to the community

Increased value of IBM products that include Lotus Symphony software

– IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus Domino® software

– IBM LotusLive™ software


Agenda



■ Demo



■ Demo

■ IBM Docs and Roadmap

■ Questions


New in Symphony 3.0.1

■ Symphony 3.0.1 includes all fixpacks since Symphony 3.0 was released

─ 1 Million row support added to spreadsheets

─ Home page design with active content – recent files

─ Chart types─ Speaker notes view─ IBM Connections plugin─ Updated LotusLive plugin


IBM Lotus Symphony Mobile Viewers Available for Android® devices and Tablets

Available for iOS® devices and Tablets


New IBM Connections ® Plugin

Profiles Activities

Blog

Files


Agenda



■ Demo



■ Demo


■ Questions


Agenda



■ Demo



■ Demo


■ Questions


Union Pacific Railroad Deployment Of Lotus Symphony

Yvette Butler Project EngineerUnion Pacific Railroad


The Company-Union Pacific Railroad Fortune 200 transportation and logistics company 25,000 customers, 43,500 employees

The Collaboration Team Support technology,

productivity, collaboration

The Goals Realize cost savings Discover productivity need


The Process●Pilot with department representatives●Adjust and enhance Symphony package●Phase I: Fun Symphony install●Phase II: Aggressive MSOffice un-install

The Advice●Engage employee participation during transition●Identify easy saturation points


Wherever you find us, we're working smarter. Union Pacific Railroad uses Lotus Symphony


Agenda



■ Demo


■ Demo


■ Questions


Some Marketplace History

1st Symphony release ships100k downloads a day

Multiple releases of Symphony based on the OO 1.x codebase

2008-2009

April 2009

Oracle buys SunAttempts to monetize OO investmentsOO community unhappy

Nov2010

IBM Ships Symphony Version based on the OO 3.x codestream. Major dev investment

LibreOffice FORK is formed and splits from OO community

October 2010

Oracle announces shut down of the OO business. Donates the code to the Apache Software Foundation

Apr2011

Jul 2011

IBM working in the community on Apache OO. Announces donation of Symphony code to the project

IBM contributes to AOO with expert team in China and Germany. Current focus is Apache 3.4 Release, licensed as AL2.

Nov2011

Sep2007


Apache OpenOffice New News

■ We intend to stop developing Lotus Symphony as a fork of the OpenOffice.org code

■ We intend to move our resources and Symphony code into the Apache OpenOffice community.

■ We intend to continue our development work on new features, updates and new releases working in the community.

■ As part of this effort we were also fortunate to add some very skilled resources who have been working on the OpenOffice.org code for many years to our team.

■ They are based in Hamburg Germany and are working with our resources in Beijing and the U.S. to advance the Apache OpenOffice Project.



Apache OpenOffice the IBM Edition *

■ Apache OpenOffice the IBM Edition is planned to replace Lotus Symphony standalone─ We intend to continue support for Symphony 3.0.1 embedded in Notes 8.5.x

■ We intend to ship Extensions that integrate AOO with our portfolio that are packaged as “the IBM Edition”

■ First release targeted for mid year 2012

AOO Untouched

IBM Product ExtensionsLotus Notes

QuickrConnections

IBM DocsDB2

Others

Installer

* * Final Naming subject to change.Final Naming subject to change.



Apache OpenOffice the IBM Edition - Value

■ IBM resources and code contribute to the Community

■ Common Extension model for 3rd parties

■ IBM support for Notes customers

■ Removes Symphony as competitor to OpenOffice

■ Focus on Enterprise customer requirements

■ Code Licensed under Apache V2 open source Current Milestone:

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 for Developers


OpenOffice+OpenSocial = Social Documents■ Share your documents

with your social network

■ Request review and comment

■ Integrates your social network with your document authoring process

■ Proposed future feature for Apache OpenOffice


Agenda



■ Demo


■ Demo


■ Questions


Proposed New Look for Apache OpenOffice Version 4






Agenda



■ Demo


■ Demo


■ Questions


IBM Docs: More than editors through a browser

✔ Real-time co-editing✔ Author presence awareness✔ Live sections ✔ Commenting & discussions✔ Assignment and notifications✔ Revision management✔ Task management✔ Attention management

Web-based collaborative editors for creating, sharing and collaboratively authoring word processor documents, spreadsheets and presentations

Designed to support both IBM SaaS offerings like IBM SmartCloud as well as private cloud implementation in customers' data centers.


Social Documents ■ Leverage the best of IBM Symphony and the best of community■ IBM contributes Symphony code base into Apache OpenOffice commits resources■ IBM Docs targeted for release in 2012

Designs subject to change

Portfolio addresses broad spectrum of user needs in

organizations

Portfolio addresses broad spectrum of user needs in

organizations



IBM Docs five year vision

● Social office productivity

● Comprehensive feature set

● Extensive integration into IBM portfolio

● Not documents, but document-driven applications ● Rich data services ● Web 2.0 style composite

document architecture

● Access anywhere



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The information on the new product is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information on the new product is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract. The information on the new product is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion

Symphony 3.0.1Jan 2012

1st hr experience1M rows

New ChartsSpeaker notes

Symphony 3 Desktop – Roadmap

Symphony 3.0.1FP

Symphony 3.0.1FP

Symphony 3.0.1FP


Apache OpenOffice Roadmap

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Feature+Planning




Is a worldwide services offering from IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL)

Provides five days of onsite assistance over a four-week period

Helps enables a small team of up to 20 business users to evaluate the benefits and features of Lotus Symphony software within the customer’s organization

Provides the tools, techniques and approaches to help successfully run a pilot leading to enterprise adoption

Helps gain an understanding of how existing files you use across your business will continue to work in Lotus Symphony software

Includes Lotus Symphony multimedia library for use in the Quickstart

WPlanned Extensions to support Apache OpenOffice

Lotus Symphony 3 Quickstart


Determine your actual software licensing costs for Microsoft Office applications

Decide which users are not getting maximum value from Microsoft Office technology

Determine your potential savings with the Lotus Symphony cost savings calculator

Take advantage of a Lotus Symphony Quickstart solution from IBM Software Services for Lotus

Go download the code and try—it's available at no charge athttp://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/ !

Make your move today!

http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/

http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/


Questions ?


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