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| Brian M O’Curran June 14 2010 02:54:43 PM  | | Drive Growth and Deliver Outstanding Business Results through Exceptional Web Experience
In today's demanding environment, your web presence is often your most important and most visible face to your customers, constituents, distributors, suppliers, and employees. A compelling engaging Web experience is no longer a nice to have, but critical to compete and grow. Join Larry to hear best practices on how to leverage an exceptional Web experience to maximize satisfaction in reaching and servicing your customers and constituents. We will share what high-performing organizations do to make their Web more additive and deliver dramatic improvement in business performance. You will hear examples as to how your peers are making the Web work smarter, improving loyalty, growing revenue, streamlining business processes, and improving business agility. Exceptional Web experience - exceptional business results.
| |  | | Harness a Changing Workforce and Drive Growth with Social Software
The way we work is changing rapidly. Business professionals are using social software tools inside and outside the workplace to connect across organizational boundaries to build dynamic networks, share knowledge, and test ideas. Social software has probably already taken root in your organization. How are you ensuring that social software is being implemented and deployed in ways that will lead to real business benefits as opposed to information exposures and security threats? Join us to learn how you can use IBM Social Software to unify, energize and empower your employees to build professional networks, share ideas and information, and innovate in ways that deliver business results that improve your bottom line.
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| | Collaboration in the Cloud: Grow your Business and Reduce Costs
In today's fast paced world, effective communication and collaboration is critical. Organizations need solutions that can drive innovation, simplify and improve daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. Many are looking to the cloud to find those solutions. Please join Sean as he discusses how collaboration, communication, content and communities come together naturally in the cloud. Hear how you can easily begin to transform your business regardless of your current environment.
| | Brian M O’Curran May 26 2010 02:08:21 PMAnother step forward for IBM and another proof point that IBM is the right partner to talk to about your cloud requirements. Press release here.  ORLANDO, FL May 26, 2010 - Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA), the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed an agreement designed to help fuel better commerce by matching business-to-business buyers and sellers of goods and services in the Cloud using state-of-the-art collaboration and social networking technologies. Ariba plans to integrate its cloud solution, the Ariba Commerce Cloud, with IBM LotusLive to help buyers and sellers communicate and share information more fluidly and effectively, leading to faster, more confident business decisions for organizations of all sizes. IBM announced today a cloud computing agreement with Ariba to help fuel better commerce with an "e-Harmony-type" matching service. With the Ariba Commerce Cloud integrated with IBM LotusLive, business-to-business buyers and sellers are matched using state-of-the-art collaboration and social networking technology. Buyers and sellers of goods and services will be able to communicate and share information more fluidly and effectively -- leading to faster, more confident business decisions. The Ariba Commerce Cloud provides companies with the means needed to manage collaborative inter-enterprise commerce. IBM LotusLive provides cloud-based, integrated email, Web conferencing, social networking and collaboration services to help simplify and improve daily business interactions with customers, partners and colleagues. The integrated solution automatically matches buyer's business requirements to seller capabilities by providing the tools to interact, answer questions and exchange accurate information prior to entering the formal contracting phase. Brian M O’Curran May 20 2010 03:26:36 PMThank You for attending a Lotusphere Comes to You 2010 Event and a special shout out to Rick over at NuTechs for doing all the heavy lifting. The presentations are available for download from the NuTechs Website - here If you have any questions or want to get a hold of Rick, his contact info is below... Rick Reichenbach 1-248-593-5751 x224 rick_reichenbach at nutechs dot com thanks again! Brian M. O'Curran
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| Brian M O’Curran May 17 2010 01:41:46 PMI'm in my learning for Growth series today and ran across this slide. What other IT partner is giving their customers this kind of bang for your buck? This is real money saved by real customers. Click here to see the Forrester webcast. It's good! - Brian
For Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 deployments: Forrester calculated a three year risk-adjusted ROI of 147% for the composite organization with a payback period within 12 months of deployment. Forrester also describes how businesses improved IT and end user productivity as well as reduced capital and operational costs within the messaging and collaboration environment. Based on interviewing ND customers, and documenting/analyzing the cost savings as a result of upgrading to 8.5, they have created a new TCO reduction calculator, white paper, webcast etc that can be used as tools Customers can optimize their on premise environment for Knowledge Workers...utilize Cloud for Boundary Workers..and extend their collaborative environment with Sametime and Social Software... Brian M O’Curran May 14 2010 02:57:52 PMLotusLive delivers the services and connections that t the way you work—helping your team work from anywhere, with everyone in a secure environment at an economical price that ts today’s shrinking budget. LotusLive provides integrated Cloud-based email, web conferencing, instant messaging, le sharing, relationship management and project tracking with IBM’s focus on security, reliability and enterprise integration. With over 18 million users and counting, LotusLive has a track record of success for companies of all sizes. Built on open systems, LotusLive extends your existing on-premise investments, allows for rapid innovation and integrates seamlessly with upcoming third party business tools—such as Salesforce.com, Skype, Silanis and others.  
The average savings for lotusLive iNotes is $15 per user*. To calculate your savings go here - link. Give me a call for a personalized demonstration of the LotusLive services and partner integration. Brian O'Curran 586-255-5350 or e-mail to bmoc@us dot ibm dot com
*These cost estimates re ect the situation in most mid-sized companies and were arrived at by an independent third-party research firm. |  |    Brian M O’Curran May 14 2010 10:59:52 AM We wanted to share some exciting new additions to LotusLive Labs you can try out now.
As you know, LotusLive Labs is a proving ground for advances in business-driven collaboration in the cloud from IBM Research and Lotus. With LotusLive Labs you can try out new cloud-based technologies and provide feedback to help us create the most useful cloud collaboration tools for your business.
LotusLive Meetings for iPhone is Now Available
 | Lotus knows you are always on-the-go. With a free iTunes download of LotusLive Meetings for iPhone, you can now access LotusLive web meetings from anywhere, at anytime.
LotusLive users can also access Web meetings on the Blackberry smartphone. Click here to learn more. And soon, LotusLive users will be able to access LotusLive Meetings from the Android smart phone and the Apple iPad. |
Lotus Knows Your Time is Precious
Read up on the new capabilities in the pre-alpha services available in LotusLive Labs that will help you save time and work smarter. These services are now available to LotusLive Labs participants.
| | | | | | Collaborative Recorded Meetings is a service that records and transcribes meeting presentations and audio/video for searching and tagging.
Click here to try. | | Slide Library presents a collaborative way to build and share presentations.
Click here to try. | | Event Maps provides an interactive way to visualize and interact with conference schedules.
Click here to try. |
Coming Soon. . . Project Concord Lets You Create and Collaborate on Documents in the Cloud
 | Lotus Project Concord is an innovative new cloud-based service for collaborative authoring of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents. Project Concord requires only a browser and a LotusLive account, and you can easily create professional looking documents and share them with others. Project Concord is simple yet powerful—letting you get started quickly, but delivers the advanced features you need. Click here to learn more. Register here to be notified when you can starting using Concord. |
Tell Us What You Think
We would like your input to shape the future of LotusLive Labs. Visit the LotusLive Labs Forum to give us your feedback. Let us know what you'd like to see in Labs and rate our current technologies.
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Maia Sisk, Director, Customer Experience | Brian M O’Curran May 13 2010 10:22:18 AMThe only benefit of being out of the office for a couple days is that - as the e-mail pours in, watching it stream down onto my blackberry, I've noticed a couple trends. In the last week, colleagues have sent me several articles about Google's e-mail struggles. I've included some links below for you're reading pleasure. There's a reason businesses look to IBM to help them come up with a cloud strategy. IBM's got the experience and infrastructure to make your initiative a success. Come and see what everyone's talking about. Take it for a test drive.... there's a reason we've been winning customers and awards. Give it spin - here.
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 Brian M O’Curran May 6 2010 10:46:17 AMIBM's got it going on in the cloud. We're leading, we're innovating and we're ready to help you sort out the reality from the noise. Don't pull the trigger on a cloud partner without understanding all your options. Wanna take it for a test drive? Click below and sign up for a month of service. See, right there - easy!  Experience and Vision IBM Lotus has over 20 years of leadership in the collaboration space. Over 40,000 companies around the world use Lotus software, and over 100 million licenses of Lotus Notes software have been sold worldwide. The LotusLive SaaS environment utilizes IBM’s unmatched global presence, reach, scale, and experience in hosting email and other enterprise applications. IBM's strategic approach to collaboration in the Cloud is innovative, providing new ways to collaborate internally and across company boundaries. Scalability IBM has extensive experience supporting the email and collaboration efforts of large, globally distributed organizations. This experience has been leveraged within the LotusLive platform architecture. LotusLive has over 18 million users worldwide within the SaaS environment. Extensibility & Choice One size does not fit all. Open standards for integration and extension of current & future investments and choice in providing the right capabilities based on user profiles maximizes cost savings and ROI. Data Privacy LotusLive solutions are designed for enterprise usage with security and trust as paramount. We respect our users’ data privacy. IBM does not introspect our users’ data nor merchandise personal identities for marketing purposes. The LotusLive business model is subscription-based, not based on advertising. Reliability IBM prides itself on supplying operations excellence and industry-leading service level agreements to our clients. Standardized architectures and process automation yield high levels of reliability. IBM’s LotusLive customers consistently benefit from a minimum of 99.9% uptime, verifying that mission-critical applications are always available. Security IBM Security protects information through governance, tools, technology, techniques, and personnel. Three pillars of LotusLive Security: Security-rich infrastructure, Policy enforcement points to provide application security, Human-centered security. I recently put together a direct mail piece talking about these points. Wish I'd have seen this first it would have saved me some time. :-) Call me, let's talk! Brian M. O'Curran
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"Let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant" (Psalm 35:27, NKJV)
| Brian M O’Curran May 5 2010 10:35:00 AMI'm on a call right now and just saw this slide. I've known this has been available for a while but - the price tag just hit me in the face. Yeah, seven bucks gets you e-mail AND the LotusLive connections suite. Unreal!  Brian M O’Curran May 2 2010 11:00:58 AMHi Everyone, we've got this coming up in a couple weeks. If you're looking at messaging, cloud computing, portals, collaboration, mashups, unified telephony, forms technology, are on an old funky e-mail from Microsoft and Groupwise - please come out to one of these Michigan events... NuTechs is hosting. John Allessio is giving the keynote. We've got a day full of great presenters and killer content.
 Event: Lotusphere Comes To You 2010 Location 1: Skyline Club - 2000 Town Center Southfield, MI Location 2: IBM Office - 2900 Charlevoix Drive, Grand Rapids, MI Date: Wednesday May 12 (Southfield); Thursday May 13 (Grand Rapids) Time: 9 AM - 3:30 PM Register: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lcty2010/na.html What else does Lotus know? You can foster innovation and learn to do more with less within and outside of your organization - without boarding a plane. IBM and NuTechs invite you to attend Lotusphere Comes to You, where you'll get to know a local community of people like you who know how to achieve better business results with IBM Lotus and IBM WebSphere Portal software and services.
Meet up and work smarter - together. Learn from and interact with those who know about Lotus and WebSphere Portal solutions. At Lotusphere Comes to You, you can: Learn about the latest technologies that are shaping business today, including unified communications, social software, portals and mashups, real-time communications and cloud computing. Network with Lotus users and make connections with other customers. Get hints and tips, user experiences and key content that you won't find anywhere else.
AGENDA: | Start | End | Topic | | 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Welcome from Lotus Sales Leader / Business Partner | | 9:15 AM | 9:45 AM | OGS Keynote | | 9:45 AM | 10:45 AM | Collaboration in the Cloud | | 10:45 AM | 11:00 AM | Break | | 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Sametime / Unified Communications | | 12:00 PM | 12:45 AM | Luncheon | | 12:45 PM | 01:30 PM | Exceptional Web Experiences (Portal ) | | 01:30 PM | 02:15 PM | Social Software (Connections) | | 02:15 PM | 02:30 PM | Break | | 02:30 PM | 03:15 PM | Lotus Notes and Domino Strategy and the Future of the Desktop | | 03:15 PM | 03:30 PM | Closing | 
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