activity management with ibm lotus notes 8 composite...

Prof. Dr. Ludwig NastanskyUniversity of Paderborn

Groupware Competence Centerhttp://gcc.upb.de

Activity Management with IBM Lotus Notes 8 Composite Applications

Typical Business Activities

Definition: An activity is a unit of work that incorporates all the content, people and tools needed to getting the job done.

An activity includes people, processes, communications, and all your involved digital assets

Examples: Closing a sale - Completing a request for proposals - Resolving a trouble ticket - Manage contacts, schedule, materials for a presentation -Manage your involvement in a complex project – Don’t loose track in your mail inbox – Getting structure in all your ToDos

Tools Chaos

Mail

Book-marks

ToDo

MetaData

BrowserFileOutline

Calen-dar

CRMSales

Know-ledge Project

Digital asset chaos

GCC AM Dashboard

GCC Activity Manager uses a Dashboard – a „Portal“-Page like User Interface

Michael Karasick, Sabine Schilg: ID307 IBM Lotus® Expeditor™, Lotusphere Orlando 2007

Activity Manager Portal Dashboard

GCC Activity Manager

ActivityList

StructuredAsset Collection

ContextualWorkplace

Portlets

Drill Down onActivity Tags

Composite Application - Wiring

Michael Karasick, Sabine Schilg: ID307 IBM Lotus® Expeditor™, Lotusphere Orlando 2007

Value aspects

Michael Karasick, Sabine Schilg: ID307 IBM Lotus® Expeditor™, Lotusphere Orlando 2007

GCC Activity Manager works in disconnected mode – offline,due to pure Lotus Notes/Domino NSF embedding

Main Portlets

Activity List

Harvesting Digital Assets

Add documents, views, databases, view anchors, URLs, files (e.g. data, media), tools (office, line of business)

Harvesting Digital Assets

Add documents, views, databases, view anchors, URLs, files (e.g. data, media), tools (office, line of business)

Assignment-„Harvesting“ dialogue

Filter and Drilldown

Composite Apps

Status right now:well defined communication facilityproperty brokerUI refresh, tying everything together

Strategic aspects:eclipse based, open UI architectureportal-like architecture for your workplacevery different information components,wired by LOB user

Summary:Notes only infrastructuredisconnectedshared database for team aspectsNotes security built in

What is GCC Activity Manager all about ?

Activity Management is innovative and efficient for information management of people in their business teamsComposite Applications in Lotus Notes 8 are innovative and add anew dimension of efficiency for software re-usablitiyThe Notes replication architecture is unsurpassed for over 15 years in its efficiency to support disconnected mode

so:

GCC Activity Manager leverages all these aspects:is a highly efficient Activity Management Toolis based on Lotus Notes 8 composite application architectureuses Lotus Domino as the only backend server,GCC Activity Manager works on local in disconnected mode

How to start

Download GCC Activity Manager (Will be available at the time when IBM releases public beta of Notes 8 - for download information, see handout)

let us know what you like and what you dislikehelps you to understand one possible approach of activity management

For large scale deployments, evaluateIBM Lotus ConnectionsIBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 activity-centric collaboration features

Start planning on how to componentize yourapplicationsproductsdevelopment process

Credits

GCC Activity Manager TeamLudwig Nastansky – ludwig.nastansky@notes.upb.deIngo Erdmann – ingo.erdmann@notes.upb.deKerstin Husemann – kerstin.husemann@notes.upb.deChristian Schröder – christian.schroeder@notes.upb.deFrank Wiele – frank.wiele@notes.upb.deDaniel Jäger – daniel.jaeger@notes.upb.deHeiko Strathkötter – heiko.strathkoetter@notes.upb.de