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Day 6 – Thursday

2/3/11 7:00 AM – BOF412 Secrets of the “Yellow Bubble”: Using the Lotus Community to Succeed in Your Role

Description

Join us to learn about the best community resources, and technical information to help you succeed, whether you’re a developer, administrator, user, experienced or novice. Find out how YOU can participate, and how to be the “go-to-geek” in your organization. We’ll lead an in-depth discussion of the resources available to the IBM Lotus professional as well as review the broad range of online communities surrounding the IBM Lotus product portfolio. From support forums and product wikis to product-themed weblogs and podcasts, this session will have you up to speed on “all things Lotus”.

Review

Great collection of resources which can be used to learn and keep informed about Notes/Domino initiatives and new features. Great source of problem fixing best practices and who to talk to when the published repair doesn’t work. Product Wikis, IdeaJam, Lotus Greenhouse, Bleed Yellow, LDD Search Plugin, Planet Lotus, Notes9, IDoNotes, Consultant In Your Pocket, etc.

2/3/11 8:30 AM – BP118 Proactive Server Management: Learn How to Maximize Your Server Uptime

Description

In a perfect world there are no server outages. Sadly, we’re not living in a perfect world. This session will give you valuable tips and tricks on how to avoid server disruptions. Are you installing the fixes you receive from IBM on all your servers, within days? We’ll also demonstrate how to make the most of IBM’s Fix Pack and Maintenance Release silent installer, for rapid deployment. This session will also examine features such as Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT), Client Automatic Data Collection, Fault Analyzer, Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM), Client and Server clock output analysis, advice on using new options within the standard database maintenance tasks, plus many other aspects relating to server maintenance.

Review

Server settings such as “prevent prompt failover=1″ so the user doesn’t see a prompt when switching to a replica database.

2/3/11 10:00 AM – INV209 Licensing Strategies for New Innovations

Description

Customers today are dealing with cutting costs, and lowering staff numbers. This session is a detailed, interactive discussion on sharing best practices and recommendations to reduce Microsoft Licensing costs. We’ll provide insights on how other customers effectively approached their licensing agreements, reviewed their own road-map and IT infrastructure and cut costs without disrupting their current environment. We’ll share the best way to learn how to reduce expenditure on Microsoft licensing to free-up budget for more mission-critical projects. Actual scenarios and role-playing bring real-life situations to create a detailed understanding. If you’re interested in business cost reduction strategies and best practices in overall procurement – then this session is for you!*

Review

Windows is a rip-off.

2/3/11 11:15 AM – INV211R1 Building a Proven Roadmap to Business Agility with BPM, SOA and Cloud

Description

Every organization around the world is focused on looking for new revenue opportunities and capturing new markets while at the same time increasing productivity and cutting costs. Organizations require the operational dexterity to sort through the increased complexities and changes of today’s business environment while the need to re-invent customer relationships is fueling growth opportunities. In this session we’ll discuss how three key actions provide a roadmap to achieve agility. We’ll look at how organizations can define and improve a core business process with Business Process Management (BPM) and Decision Management. We’ll discuss how you can strengthen relationships and integrate with customers, suppliers and partners through SOA while controlling costs and adding flexibility with Cloud and Virtualization.

Review

Use the social aspect of computing to promote your own company or a division within a larger company. Be sociable and build relationships to get support and make things happen.

2/3/11 3:15 PM – CGS101 Lotusphere 2011 Closing General Session

Description

There’s no question that Lotusphere is a mecca for some of the best and brightest, but let’s see how the ‘superminds’ of Lotusphere stack up against Watson! Join us in a live game show and face off against the self-contained system designed to play the TV game show “Jeopardy!” against humans. See how well your fellow Lotusphere attendees handle the pressure of competing against the world-famous supercomputer that for the past four years has been designed to combine natural language processing, to understand the question; parallel search through the information is has “learned” through training, to find the best answer; analyze the evidence to determine its confidence, and decide if it should attempt to answer the question by buzzing faster that other contestants; and finally use speech technology to communicate the answer to the host and judges. (Just like you!) This is a do-not-miss experience that’s sure to be full of laughs!

Review

Watch the mainframe Watson play Jeopardy Feb 14-16.