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ID 101Lotus Notes 6.5 and Beyond

Jeff Eisen – Lotus Notes Technical LeadHeidi Votaw – Senior Product Manager

Agenda

Lotus Workplace Timeline of Notes/Domino Product review

Feature highlights Notes 6.5/6.5.1 with product demonstration

Sneak peak at Notes 7.0 with product demonstration

Investment protection Summary Q&A

IBM Lotus Workplace

Timeline of Notes / Domino & Lotus Workplace releases …Notes / DominoMaintenance releases

Q3 2003• Notes 6.0.3

Q1 2004• Notes 5.0.13• Notes 6.5.1

Q2 2004• Notes 6.0.4 • Notes 6.5.2

Q3 2004• Notes 6.5.3

Q1 2005• Notes 5.0x EOS• Notes 6.0.5 • Notes 6.5.4

NOTE: Information is subject to change based on business need

Major Feature releasesFor Notes / Domino &Lotus Workplace

Q3 2003• Notes 6.5 • Lotus Workplace products 1.1

1H 2004• Notes 6.5.1 including the extended Domino portfolio products (IBM Lotus Instant Messaging & Web Conferencing, IBM Lotus Team Workplace, IBM Lotus Domino Document Manager, etc)• Lotus Workplace products 2.0

1H 2005• Notes 7.0 including the extended Domino portfolio products (IBM Lotus Instant Messaging & Web Conferencing, IBM Lotus Team Workplace, IBM Lotus Domino Document Manager, etc)• Lotus Workplace products 3.x

2H 2004• Lotus Workplace products 2.x

IBM Lotus Notes Gives users a single access point to their most valuable

messaging, collaborative and personal information management (PIM) resources through the new Lotus Workplace for Notes welcome page

Integrates Lotus Instant Messaging functionality to provide presence awareness and enable users to initiate chats with colleagues—without launching a separate application

Maximizes responsiveness through follow-up function and visual indicators to show users when they’ve forwarded or replied to e-mail messages

Helps reduce total cost of ownership through minimal training requirements, end-user productivity enhancements and built-in management functions like Smart Upgrade

Provides a highly secure messaging and collaboration platform for sharing data and connecting your employees and extended communities

Design themes for the Notes client

Continued focus on: Productivity

Usability

Extensibility

Total cost of ownership

Continued quality improvements

Seamless integration with the Domino portfolio (coming in 6.5.1)

Integration with Workplace (coming in 7.0) Alternating focus between Notes (client) and Domino

(server) releases 6.5 - focus on Notes client

7.0 - focus on Domino server

6.5 / 6.5.1 highlights

Workplace Welcome Page Improved Lotus Instant Messaging and Web

Conferencing integrationPresence awareness (Mail forms, Inbox view, Welcome Page, etc)

Chat via right mouse menu

Ability to add presence awareness to custom Notes applications

Option to show/hide Instant Contact List

Follow up flags for email (low, normal, urgent) QuickRules for end users Replied to / forwarded to indicators Block mail from sender Archiving C&S entries

6.5 / 6.5.1 highlights (continued)

Mail view optionsTime column

View unread / read Replication of unread marks Drag and drop to the calendar View by category in the calendar Rename a resource Improved control for rescheduling

repeating meetings Export to CSV (Comma Separated

Value) file format Printing enhancements (description

field) Option to set Notes as default mail

client (Windows 2000/XP)

Supported platforms for Notes 6.5

Windows XP, Professional Edition Windows 2000, Professional Edition (SP3) Windows NT V4.0 (SP6a) Windows 98 Windows 95 (Second Edition) Macintosh OS X (10.1/10.2)

Note: 6.5.1 platforms will be available closer to ship

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What’s coming in Notes

What’s coming in Notes 7.0

Integration with Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing Increased presence awareness (C&S, Discussion, and TeamRoom)

Add web conferencing capability to an existing meeting

Create secure web conferences (password / restrict attendance)

Control who can see if your online

Additional display options for Instant Contact List

Calendar view

Interoperability with Workplace Instant Messaging

What’s coming in Notes 7.0 (continued)

Productivity enhancementsAsynchronous (non-blocking) on database open

Auto processing accept – double book conflicts

Usability enhancementsArchive/Cleanup Utility for Calendar Entries

Sort by subject

Enhanced meetings view

Quickly close all open Notes windows

Confirmation prompt on close Microsoft integration

Smart Tags Support

Updated viewers / filters for Office 2003

What’s coming in Notes 7.0 (continued) Smart Upgrade – more administrative controls, improved user interface,

failover support, etc Client Policy Lock-Down:

Enforce settings pushed to the client desktops, end-users will not be able to change any settings such as:

• Desktop (bookmarks, settings in the location documents, etc)• Archiving (on/off and where)• Security (ECL)

Mail Policies: Extension to Policy Based Management to control:

• Mail preferences (online/offline)• Rules (server/client)

Support for DB2 data store Support for running native Notes applications within the Workplace Client

And more ….

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Investment Protection

Getting There: Client Coexistence and InteroperabilityOutlook Client

Rich Clients

Reach / Thin Clients

Notes Client Rich Client

Domino WebAccess

• Interoperability with Domino and Workplace Messaging• 1H ‘04

• Feature rich Domino plug-in• Open standards protocols support for J2EE server - 1H ‘04

• 6.5.1 – Q1 ‘04

DominoDomino J2EE J2EE

Lotus Workplace Platform

• Consolidated UI for either platform Unified• 2H ‘04)

Notes & DWA Portlets

LWM / Unified Portlet

Investment Protection Domino and LWM Coexistence and Interoperability Scenarios

DominoDirectory

SMTP /MTA

HTTP

NSF/DB2 Database

Primary LDAP

DB2

Client HTTPRequests

Messaging Client

Application Server

Messaging Client

Application Server

SMTP / MTAMail Service

LWM CellDomino Infrastructure

Messaging Services and InfrastructureIntegrate at any layer of mail backbone and hierarchy: SMTP, HTTP, POP3, IMAP

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Directory Support Domino LDAP Services can serveboth Workplace and Domino platforms

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Account Management Auto-Provision LWM Accounts from DominoSingle Sign-On Between Domino and Workplace

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Data PopulationOut-of-the-box utilities to import mail and calendar data into Workplace from Exchange and Domino

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Notes/Domino in the Workplace

Portlet

Launch Notes Client

Use Existing WebInterface via Template

Workplace w/ Domino Portlets

Workplace w/ Domino Portlets

Use when applications are not web enabled

Use when applications are web enabled

Domino Server

Lotus Workplace extends Notes/Domino investments

Domino is a key content and application provider for Workplace

Domino products co-exist and interoperate with Workplace

Domino skills sets and license investments carry forward to Workplace

Upcoming Domino product investments evolve customers to Workplace at their own pace

More futures …

Embedded Notes in the Workplace Client

Summary

Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing integration Enhanced junk mail handling Simplified user interface increase productivity Increased inbox and information management Multi platform client / server support Combined with Domino server enhancements and increased

application development options

Now is the time to upgrade … and watch for upcoming beta releases of Notes 7.0

Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5

Best Enterprise Collaboration Platform for

2003

InfoWorld

More information

For more information on IBM’s overall Lotus Workplace activities visit www.lotus.com/workplace

For more information on Lotus Messaging solutions visit www.lotus.com/messaging www.lotus.com/notes www.ibm.com/lotus/webaccess www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/accessoutlook

For more technical information visit the Lotus Developer Domain www.lotus.com/ldd site contains information on;

Notes/Domino Notes/Domino fix list database Notes/Domino discussion forums Notes/Domino Whitepapers Notes/Domino Redbooks

Other websites of interest: www.ibm.com/lotus/support www.lotus.com/education

Other sessions of interest … Strategy track

STR 103 Lotus Notes and Domino Futures STR 113 The Boss Loves Microsoft: Where Does That Leave Lotus? STR 108 Lotus Mobile Strategy

Infrastructure track ID 102 Lotus Notes Messaging – Revisited ID 201 Lotus Domino 6.5 Administration and Beyond ID 204 Lotus Domino Directory Integration ID 205 IBM Internal Notes/Domino Deployment ID 207 Lotus Domino Email Hygiene: Getting Rid of Spam ID 209 Lotus Notes and Domino Security: Basics and Beyond ID 210 Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Deployment – What You Need to Know ID 211 NSFDB2 – Plans and Status ID 301 The 6.5.1 Releases: Integrated, Tested, Improved

Application development track AD 101 Lotus Domino Designer: 6.5 and Beyond AD 102 “Must Have” Additions to Your Current and Future Lotus Notes Applications

Birds of a Feather sessions BOF 101 Lotus Notes Mail and Calendaring/Scheduling BOF 106 Lotus Notes and IBM DB2 BOF 107 Upgrading to ND6 – Real Life Experiences

Jumpstart sessions JMP109 Monitoring and Managing Your Lotus Domino Infrastructure

Be sure to visit us at the Labs as well!

Thank you!