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IBM Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Daniele Vistalli, Avnet Technology Solutions, Italy and
Neil Burston, formerly Avnet Technology Solutions, UK now Oak Ridge Business Solutions
Experiences of Lotus Connections 2.0 Beta
http://www.vistalli.it http://lotusconnectionsblog.com
www.avnet.com/ts/emea
Accelerating Your SuccessTM
Avnet Technology Solutions
VAD – Value Add Distributor
Global
Multi-Vendor
Solutions Consultants
Business Development
Partner enablement
Social network platform
The Avnet problem space . . .1. Vested interest
2. Investors interest
+ =
Global + Multilingual + Multi Vendor + Need to find expertise + Need to share the expertise +Major business integrations
The Beta Program
Self help
Our deployment (not just a pilot)
“Unsupported” setup, 1 virtual machine, 5Gb ram, 30Gb disk
Linux - SLES 10 SP1
DB2 9.1, memory manager tuned to use a limited amount of memory
WAS 6.1.0.13, one profile, 6 app servers (one per feature)
LTPA everywhere (Portal / Web environment)
LDAP is Tivoli Directory Server (on another box)
TDI is “importing” a subset of it (only internal Avnet team)
Front-end “EDGE” using Websphere Edge Components Caching Proxy
Dirty Techie bit (Lessons learned)Use Linux/AIX (much better Websphere /
filesystem performance)
Use a reverse caching and compression proxy or your network will complain (great performance booster)
Go beyond documentation: discover bookmark-let urls, community cards (like person cards) and more
Overuse it, integrate people-cards and bookmark-lets in existing application. Wherever it makes sense
Examples of what we did
From Sharepoint
to
Activities
or
Dogear
or
Blogs
or
Communities
Portal integration
Connections integrationJust 2 hours, to make it real !!!
Users loved it !!!
Observations
Conclusions
Better Install
Better features
Better integration
Final thoughts
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