Mobilizing Applications with BlackBerry in Your Lotus Environment

Alex ChangTechnical Account Manager Research In Motion HK

Agenda

• Lotus & BlackBerry - Consonance• The BlackBerry Platform• Technology Overview• Practical Application

Customer’s Viewpoint- Lotus

Why do I love Lotus?• Business User: Because I use it to:

– Run my business– Collaborate on projects– Automate administration processes and workflow– Stay in touch with customers

• IT/Mobile Strategist:– Because Sametime is a platform for real-time

collaboration– Because Domino is a flexible platform for collaboration

Customer’s Viewpoint - BlackBerry

Why do I love my BlackBerry? • Business User: Because it lets me…

– Run my business– Collaborate on projects– Prevent administration/workflow bottlenecks– Stay in touch with customers

…Anywhere, Anytime.

• IT/Mobile Strategist:– It's a flexible platform– and it's EASY

• To configure, install, administer, secure

Sound familiar?

More Reasons to Love Your BlackBerryDid You Know You Can…

• View Images and Read Faxes

• Collaborate via IM

• Consult a Map, Get Directions

• Listen to WAV File Voicemail

• Listen to Podcasts and MP3

• View Video

• Take pictures and email them

In Excellent Company:BlackBerry in the Enterprise – Synopsis

• 10,000+ Enterprises Relying on BlackBerry• 80,000+ BlackBerry Enterprise Servers Deployed• Choice of Over 30 RIM and Partner Handhelds• 70%+ of BES Installs Utilizing Applications• 225+ Carriers and Growing• 100’s of Millions of Wireless transactions per day• Solutions for All Major Wireless Network

Technologies• >500 Enterprise ISVs, 1,000’s of Mobile Applications

Full Coverage…

Voice

Email

Calendar & PIM

Information Access

Instant Messaging

Workflow & Transactions

LotusDomino

LotusDomino

Sametime

WebSphere

WEA

BlackBerryEnterprise

ServerVersion 4.0

BlackBerryPlatformVersion

4.1

BlackBerry Enterprise

Server

Complete - BlackBerry Enterprise Solution

.net Application Servers

BlackBerry Infrastructure

Internet

2.5G Networks

3G Networks

Wi-Fi

Corporate Firewall

Collaboration Servers

J2EE ApplicationServers

Web Services

BES With Mobile Data System is the Anchor of the Enterprise Wireless Solution

Single Behind-the-Firewall Infrastructure provides secure link to all wireless networks & all wireless

handhelds

BlackBerry – the Platform

• What does that mean, “The Platform?”– It’s a single, unified product

• You have options:– “Front End”

• Browser• J2ME• MDS Studio• 3rd Party applications

– “Back End”• Domino• Other Web Content• ERP (SAP, etc.)• Service Oriented Architecture (Web Services)

• It’s flexible• There’s an ecosystem• There’s a strategy for growth & expansion

– Ascendent & Sametime integration

Quick Technical Review of the BlackBerry Platform

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23 4

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Industry Certifications on securityFIPS 140-2, CAPS, @stake, Fraunhofer-SIT (in progress), Common Criteria (in progress)

End to End Triple DES or AES EncryptionNo Staging of Data, including the BES

Mobile Data System (MDS)

Bridges the gap between Application and Web Servers and the Mobile Device• Provides secure pipe for application data between device and BlackBerry

Server • Recent Features (4.0/4.1)

– Proxy URL exclusion list and Increased Access Control– Enhanced XML support (local parser, and enhanced compression)– Backend RSA integration with MDS for two factor authentication– Ability to run MDS on a separate machine (1:1)– Support for Mobile Web Services

• MDS Studio - A Visual Design Tool for Forms-based Wireless Applications

BrowserOr

Application

Easy access to Web Services (yellow line) • Enhancements to BlackBerry MDS Services (for Web Services and other) • New BlackBerry MDS Studio (developer tool)• New BlackBerry MDS Runtime (device software)

BlackBerry Mobile Data System

Beyond EmailExtending Web Service Applications to BlackBerry

• MDS enhanced with a new development option to:– Provide more rapid support for corporate applications– Combines the simplicity of the browser with the feature

richness of Java– Release 4.1

Internet

Existing BlackBerry

infrastructureDevices with BlackBerry

MDS Runtime

Firewall

2G and 3G WirelessNetworks

SOAP Siebel

Enterprise Applications

SAP

Web Services I/Fdescribed by WSDL

Oracle

ApplicationRepository

BES with BlackBerry MDS Services

MDS Studio(IDE)• Visa

• Amex

MDS Studio Application

“Brass Tacks” - Mobilized Applications

What must a Mobilized Application do?

One or more:1. Data submission2. Data Lookup3. Push/Notification 4. Actionable Alerts

A mobilized application supposes collaboration

Example from the Real World:Data Submission & Collaboration Demo

• Code available for download• Discussion Database - MDS studio• How did we do this? • Web service for discussion DB in Domino 7

– NSF with web service (WSDL)• In MDS Studio

– Built the app, added it to repository• Users pull down

– Option to push• Here's what it looks like…

– In a Notes client– On the web– In the BlackBerry Browser

Example from the Real World:Data Submission

Data Submission Demo

Example from the Real World:Data Submission

Data Submission Demo

Example from the Real World:Data Submission

Data Submission Demo

Example from the Real World:Data Submission

Data Submission Demo

Example from the Real World:Data Submission

Data Submission Demo

“Brass Tacks” Managing & Deploying Mobilized Applications

This is all good, BUT…• The Mobilized Application must also be

– Manageable– A good fit for your existing infrastructure– Secure

• Specify specific applications as Required, Allowed, Disallowed– Required applications will be pushed wirelessly to designated devices

• Specify what resources (on and off the device) a given application can access

– Via Application Control Policies

Application Download & Management

• Release 4.0

BlackBerry – Lotus Resources

• BlackBerry for Domino – FREE QuickStart offer– www.blackberry.com/go/mobilizedomino

• Domino – BlackBerry Integration– www.blackberry.com/go/dominoresources– HelpDesk, Domino Discussion Forum, Emergency Contact List,

Expense Tracking

• BlackBerry Solutions Guide– www.blackberry.com/go/solutionsguide

• BlackBerry Development– www.blackberry.com/developers/index.shtml

• BlackBerry Security– www.blackberry.com/security

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