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IBM Lotus Quickr is designed to transform the way everyday business content is shared for more effective team collaboration. You can see Quickr in action with the demonstration about how Greener Autos company is utilizing Lotus Quickr. You can access the demonstration from here and learn probable use cases of Lotus Quicker.

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In IBM’s demo site for Lotus Symphony, you can find recorded demos as well as demo scripts about using Lotus Symphony to increase office productivity. As a short brief, IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of office productivity applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.  It is designed to handle the majority of tasks that end users perform. Lotus Symphony supports open standards and is available at no charge from IBM.

Click here to access IBM’s demo site for Lotus Symphony.

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IBM Lotus Quickr includes a content repository, content management, and team collaboration capabilities. The content libraries helps organizing and sharing the documents for projects and teams. The document management features like versioning, workflow, and customized document types ease management and organization of the documents. In addition, Lotus Quickr content services make it possible to create, manage, update, search, query, and delete Lotus Quickr content. The developers can also utilize these services to access and manipulate content in Lotus Quickr.

Lotus Quickr uses Lotus Web Content Management to store and present online content. Wiki pages, blog posts, announcements, project tasks, and contacts are each stored as Web content. Each is authored using a Lotus Web Content Management authoring template, presented using a Web content management presentation template, and stored in a Web content management site area.

The Web content management APIs are used to extend functions of Web content management, which gives you the ability to manage Web content programmatically. Theses APIs and services enable developers building portlets & services for WebSphere Portal.

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The Domino server offers two methods of migration from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 as follows:

1. Server-to-server migration with the help of Domino upgrade service - Domino Upgrade Services in the Domino Administrator client allows migration information from existing Microsoft Exchange messaging and directory system to Lotus Domino R8. With Domino Upgrade Services, you can import users from the foreign directory, register them as Notes users, and then convert the mail from Microsoft Exchange mail system to a Domino mail database. The migration tool lets you migrate all users and/or selective users from the foreign directory.
2. Client-to-client migration with the help of Notes upgrade service (Nupgrade) -Notes Upgrade Services works only with a local Microsoft Outlook Personal Storage (PST) file, creating a local NSF file. There is no need to access the servers and thus no update to the server’s primary Domino directory. Although Notes Upgrade Service is designed to migrate Microsoft Exchange data that resides locally in an Outlook PST file, it never accesses the Microsoft Exchange server.

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With the wide spread of Web 2.0 and social networking initiatives, Web content management solutions that meet these trends have become very popular. The ability to interact with content in various solutions, from news portals to corporate intranets to blogs, has become essential in enriching the users’ online collaboration capabilities.

IBM Lotus Web Content Management solution lets creation of the news items with the comments and both the recommendation section and its ordering. After creating the site framework, and then creating the related workflow, you can deploy the artifacts to WebSphere Portal and put the collaborative section into production.

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Lotus Connections 2.0’s main page allows users to have an aggregated view of information from various and diverse sources as the Home page feature is based on widgets. Besides this, the Home page also allows you implementing and adding your own widgets. For this purpose, the new term “iWidget” is defined. The process to create and deploy a widget is relatively straightforward. You deploy an iWidget to the Home page in two main steps:

1. Deploy the XML descriptor and all the resources of the iWidget to a Web server.
2. Register the widget in the Home page catalog by pointing to the URL of the deployed iWidget XML descriptor.

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For organizing a HATS project to run as a portlet, the structure and content of the project needs to be altered to meet the portlet specification. Since HATS supports the JSR 168 standard, it automates the process of converting a regular HATS project into a portlet. Note that, the WebSphere Portal Toolkit is a prerequisite for this conversion process. There a two ways that a HATS portlet can be created as follows:

1. You can create a new one using the HATS Create a Project wizard and designating that the project should be created as a portlet.
2. You can generate one from an existing HATS application. This ensures that the time spent on creating your HATS application will not be wasted when you move it to WebSphere Portal.

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IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) is well known as transforming traditional green-screen terminal applications (3270 and 5250 host applications with more formal terminology) to the Web, to a rich client, or to browsers on mobile devices quickly and easily.

HATS integration with WebSphere Portal Server lets data flow freely between HATS, WebSphere Portal, and other Portal applications. All of the relevant features of WebSphere Portal are also available for exploitation within HATS by built-in tooling or straightforward Java development.

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IBM announced the availability of the public beta 2 of Lotus Notes/iNotes and Domino 8.5. Public beta can be accessed from here.

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IBM Rational Performance Tester can be used to test the IBM Lotus Notes standard client for assessing the scalability related issues on Citrix. For this issue, Rational Performance Tester Extension for Citrix Presentation Server is used to simulate the load generation to test the applications that are hosted on the Citrix Presentation Server.

The success of this artificial load generation is dependent on how you can mimic the behavior of the application which means the behavior of the application should be reproducible.Citrix performance tests interact with the Citrix Presentation Server client at a low level so that changes that you make to the test after the recording can change the context of the user actions and cause synchronization timeouts.

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