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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

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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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