There is a wonderful link on IBM's website which has complete history of Lotus notes. IBM bought Lotus notes in 1995 and it has come a long way since then. Visit the Link below and check the complete history of this wonderful software.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/ls-NDHistory/
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Google Wave……. Beware !! its a High Tidal Wave !!
Collaboration solutions are raining cats and dogs; no one wants to be left behind in the race of launching cloud based and web solutions. Google has launched its new “Personal Communication and collaboration tool “called Google Wave recently. It is a real communication platform and combines the aspects of email , IM , wikis , web chats to build one classic in-browser communication Client for use.
As described by Google a wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply anytime and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
It has lot of Innovative features , few of them are listed below ….
a) Real time , b)Embeddability , c)Applications and Extensions , d)Wiki functionality
e)Open Source , f)Playback , g)Drag and drop file sharing etc. etc.
While these are only few of the many features which Google wave promises to give , its easy to understand why people are excited about it.
How to get a Google Wave account ?
Its only by Invitaion ,someone already having an account should invite you. But this cycle of invitations has to be initiated from somewhere. Google has specified 4 Key ways for this as listed below ……
1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account. - Google put up a request form for Wave invites not long after Wave was announced. Most of the invites arriving tomorrow will go to people on that list. Your chances improve if you signed up early on and wrote a message to the Wave team.
2. You have an account on the Developer Preview of Wave. - The Sandbox version of Google Wave has been active for a select group of developers for several months now, allowing them to test Wave, report bugs, and build Wave extensions. They will all get accounts.
3. Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts. - It’s likely several companies asked Google for invites when the real-time tool launched. They will get accounts. Some schools that use Google Apps will also get early access.
4. You are invited by someone currently using Wave. - This is the most intriguing revelation made today by the search giant. Here’s how Google explained it:
As described by Google a wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply anytime and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
It has lot of Innovative features , few of them are listed below ….
a) Real time , b)Embeddability , c)Applications and Extensions , d)Wiki functionality
e)Open Source , f)Playback , g)Drag and drop file sharing etc. etc.
While these are only few of the many features which Google wave promises to give , its easy to understand why people are excited about it.
How to get a Google Wave account ?
Its only by Invitaion ,someone already having an account should invite you. But this cycle of invitations has to be initiated from somewhere. Google has specified 4 Key ways for this as listed below ……
1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account. - Google put up a request form for Wave invites not long after Wave was announced. Most of the invites arriving tomorrow will go to people on that list. Your chances improve if you signed up early on and wrote a message to the Wave team.
2. You have an account on the Developer Preview of Wave. - The Sandbox version of Google Wave has been active for a select group of developers for several months now, allowing them to test Wave, report bugs, and build Wave extensions. They will all get accounts.
3. Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts. - It’s likely several companies asked Google for invites when the real-time tool launched. They will get accounts. Some schools that use Google Apps will also get early access.
4. You are invited by someone currently using Wave. - This is the most intriguing revelation made today by the search giant. Here’s how Google explained it:
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Enterprise 2.0 - An Overview
In lay man's language it is about open communication in an enterprise. The assumption here is, more the information is shared among the colleagues , teams , customers , vendors etc. in an enterprise ; the less information will be shrouded. Verbosity is the need of E 2.0 , and when information is free and shared among the colleagues people can react more quickly on it.
This will create a treasure of Intellectual property for an Organization and people will also be more productive. It main characteristics are :
a) Flat organization , b)Ease of Organisation Flow , c) Agility and Flexibility , d)user driven technology , e)Bottom up , f) Distributed , g) Transparency
Drivers :
To implement E 2.0 in your organization you need to fuel it with - Web 2.0 technologies , demand for socialization of enterprise applications and business culture willing to adopt and make full use of E 2.0.
Web 2.0 is the term used for set of tools/applications which allow for user participation. The most common and popular example of such tools can be - Wiki , socialtext , microblogs (Twitter) , Jive , sharepoint , Lotus connection , facebook etc. Wikis , blogs and social text are now main tools used to develop applications for communication and marketing in the enterprise.
This leads us to the second driver of E 2.0 - the socialization of business applications , moving from data centric models to people driven applications. Applications in which user participation is required to run them and its regular use builds into a full grown product. Its not code and data fed by programmers which builds the application but the information which is shared by people in it.
The third Key to enterprise 2.0 is - Business culture , it is mostly overlooked but is the most important driver for E 2.0. For centuries corporates have been following the Feudal system of Hierarchies - workers (cattle class) ; lower management , higher management , top management , directors and what not management. Its very difficult for them to appreciate the open dialogue among workers. Transparency is the word more often used than practiced , E 2.0 will create transparency among workers. It is very difficult to dictate and monitor each and every word which employee says/writes on blogs. Until the management understands that it is not promoting Anarchy but transparency it will be very difficult to use and implement it.
This will create a treasure of Intellectual property for an Organization and people will also be more productive. It main characteristics are :
a) Flat organization , b)Ease of Organisation Flow , c) Agility and Flexibility , d)user driven technology , e)Bottom up , f) Distributed , g) Transparency
Drivers :
To implement E 2.0 in your organization you need to fuel it with - Web 2.0 technologies , demand for socialization of enterprise applications and business culture willing to adopt and make full use of E 2.0.
Web 2.0 is the term used for set of tools/applications which allow for user participation. The most common and popular example of such tools can be - Wiki , socialtext , microblogs (Twitter) , Jive , sharepoint , Lotus connection , facebook etc. Wikis , blogs and social text are now main tools used to develop applications for communication and marketing in the enterprise.
This leads us to the second driver of E 2.0 - the socialization of business applications , moving from data centric models to people driven applications. Applications in which user participation is required to run them and its regular use builds into a full grown product. Its not code and data fed by programmers which builds the application but the information which is shared by people in it.
The third Key to enterprise 2.0 is - Business culture , it is mostly overlooked but is the most important driver for E 2.0. For centuries corporates have been following the Feudal system of Hierarchies - workers (cattle class) ; lower management , higher management , top management , directors and what not management. Its very difficult for them to appreciate the open dialogue among workers. Transparency is the word more often used than practiced , E 2.0 will create transparency among workers. It is very difficult to dictate and monitor each and every word which employee says/writes on blogs. Until the management understands that it is not promoting Anarchy but transparency it will be very difficult to use and implement it.
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