BP303 Empowering ICS Communities for SocialBizUG with IBM Connections

IBM Connect 2014 - Socialbizug.org has evolved to provide a dynamic home for ICS communities and content. It was designed by WIS, hosted by Connectria, built by The Turtle Partnership and developed by The London Developer Co-Op on a combination of IBM Connections and IBM Domino. Attend to see how to pick the right pieces for a successful IBM Connections end user facing deployment. Take a behind the scenes look at the site, from the ground up. We will start from customer design requirements, including both anonymous and secured content. Then dig into server architecture design including the number of servers, staging areas and growth planning. Finally we'll talk about development decisions as well as server scaling and ease of management in our cloud model.

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1. © 2014 IBM Corporation BP 303: Empowering ICS Communities for SocialBizUG with IBM Connections Speakers
2. SEE THE WHOLE SLIDESET AT THE ABOVE LINK http://idonot.es/BP303IBMConnect2014 2
3. © 2014 IBM Corporation WHAT IS SOCIALBIZUG - WITH CELIA HAMILTON, WELLESLEY INFORMATION SERVICES
4. © 2014 IBM Corporation
5. About SocialBizUG.org 22,000 members Developers, Administrators, Consultants, Managers, Analysts, and more 55 user groups supporting IBM Collaboration Solutions members on 5 continents Independent content Live Q&As Webcasts Articles Individual blog contributors Newsletters Connect 2013 content Presentations, video & audio recordings 5
6. © 2014 IBM Corporation THE CHALLENGES - WITH MIKE SMITH, THE TURTLE PARTNERSHIP
7. The Challenges A site that is responsive Provides all the features of IBM Connections Includes certain features that Connections doesn’t have Doesn’t ask LotusUserGroup members to re-register Remembers any Preferences Protects Privacy Allows Anonymous Access Can be built in 6 weeks and go live in 9 weeks 7
8. Working Together There was a lot of work to be done involving different teams over a very short time Design architecture - Turtle Provision hardware - Connectria Build Test Environment - Turtle Design Look and Feel - WIS Develop Look and Feel - LDC Migrate Data - Turtle & LDC Test - WIS Build Production - Turtle Go Live - Everyone 8
9. © 2014 IBM Corporation THE CLOUD - WITH CHRIS MILLER, CONNECTRIA
10. Challenges - Responsive Site With no idea of how many concurrent users we would be hosting we wanted to start small but with room for growth Cognos required more resource than anything else so was given a separate server The site was locked down to outside access with all traffic going through IBM HTTP Server With Connectria hosting the servers we can easily provision more memory or disk on the fly 10
11. © 2014 IBM Corporation CUSTOMIZATION - WITH MARK MYERS, LONDON DEVELOPERS CO-OP
12. Customization 12 Homepage is an Normal XPage With a Competent Admin, Domino and Connections works nearly seamlessly both providing appropriate functions and with integration.
13. Customization 13
14. Contact Us Celia Hamilton, Wellesley Information Services • Celia.Hamilton@wispubs.com Mike Smith, The Turtle Partnership • mikes@turtlepartnership.com Chris Miller, Connectria @IdoNotes on everything, yes everything http://www.IdoNotes.com Mark Myers, London Developers Co-op • Mark@londondevelopercoop.com 14