Domino app dev competitive advantage for blug

Domino Application Development
Competitive Advantage

Presented by: John Head, PSC Group, LLC
& David Via, IBM

John Head
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PSC Group, LLC

Host of the following blogs:
Facebook.com/PSCGroup  Ed Brill’s
(www.edbrill.com)
Twitter.com/PSCGroup  Lotus Design Blog(Mary Beth Raven)
(www.notesdesign.com)
Linkedin.com/company/psc-group-llc  LotusStaffNotes (Brent Peters)
(www.lotusstaffnotes.com)
Slideshare.com/PSCGroup
 Lotus Connections Team
Youtube.com/PSCGroup (synch.rono.us)
 Domino Server Team
(www.dominoblog.com)
 Lotus Mashups
(www.mix-and-mash.com)
 Chris Pepin – IBM CTO’s Office
(www.chrispepin.com)

David Via,
IBM Lotus Software Group
Business Unit Executive, Messaging and Collaboration Sales

●
“What does that mean?” I am primarily responsible for sales of the Notes and
Domino product family – Notes/Domino, Symphony, Alloy, Protector, Lotus
Mobile Connect - worldwide. But Notes and Domino is just the beginning!
●
Just presented at my 18th Lotusphere. (Yes, I have been to every single one.)
●
Working with Notes since R2 in 1992! (Wow, I am old.)
●
Perhaps most importantly: I've only been at IBM for five years. (Before that I
spent 13 years as a Lotus Business Partner sitting in the same seats that you
are right now... ;)
●
Follow/contact/link to me: Twitter - “davidvia”, LinkedIn -
“http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvia”, email - “dmvia@us.ibm.com”

Agenda
● Domino Application Development Today – “not your Father's Designer”
– Advantages of Domino over Microsoft Sharepoint

● Notes from the field – PSC's real world experiences

● Domino Application Development Tomorrow - The IBM Social
Business Framework

Let's talk about Domino applications
but not these Domino applications, please...

Designer 8.5 - a world-class RAD environment

Business-process-driven applications that enable people to collect, organize,
share, and track information.

● Open, point and click GUI development
environment.
● Support for developers at every skill
level – Lotus, Java, Eclipse
● Bundled templates that require no
coding to use
● Component reusability saves time and
increases responsiveness
● Centralized administration for quick
deployment and easy maintenance
● Pervasive security
● Universal access: online or offiline,
Rich client or web client.
● Integrate multiple data sources

Thousands of enterprises around the globe trust their core
collaborative and business applications to Lotus Notes and Domino.
Notes Apps “by the
numbers”:

● 280,000 active
developers

● $45m investment by IBM
since 2007
 Discussion databases  Inventory and project management
 Community forums  Process tracking
● 10,000,000 applications
 Document storage and collaboration  Sales force automation in use
 Customer relationship management  Product catalogs and price lists
 Help desk and customer support  Billing systems ● 64,000 developers and
 Human resources  Audit and assessment 200 projects active in
open source community
Today's Notes/Domino offers the easiest, fastest and richest development of Web 2.0 apps.

Domino app dev competitive advantage for blug

To this with xPages - Jacobs eLite 2.0

Agenda

● Domino Application Development Today – “not your Father's Designer”
– Advantages of Domino over Microsoft Sharepoint

● Notes from the field – PSC's real world experiences

● Domino Application Development Tomorrow - The IBM Social
Business Framework

Reasons not to move Notes
apps to SharePoint
● Claims heard about why one should move to Sharepoint
– SharePoint could easily replace the Rapid Application development feature
set of Lotus Notes
– SharePoint is self service driven and therefore will need less development
resources than a new Lotus Notes environment
● While in reality
– What most consider to be simple Notes client applications often require
moderate to significant development effort that cannot be done with
SharePoint Designer and require Visual Studio and .Net development skills
– Complex applications with business logic and workflow are not suitable for
SharePoint and require .Net development and additional Microsoft products
to provide the same level of capability you get in one product (Lotus Domino)

apps to SharePoint
Platform Capability Lotus Notes/Domino Microsoft SharePoint

Messaging Built in messaging Requires Exchange
services tailored for
applications.
Data storage Data store is fully Data storage relies an
integrated with the SQL server and
platform and no unexpected additional
additional cost cost must be considered
Replication Ability to have fine None
grained control to
replicate data over
distributed server
environment

apps to SharePoint
Application Lotus Notes/Domino Microsoft SharePoint
Capability
Securing access to Fine grained control at Very limited to no
document data the doc field or section capability to hide/secure
level data at this level
Workflow Simple to complex Simple workflows can be
workflow can be built in created in Sharepoint
Designer using data, Designer. More complex
security and messaging workflows require .Net
services
Event model XPages and Notes forms Events tied to list actions
provide robust event can be added but require
model C#
Offline access Industry leading ability to Limited offline support
take data and business
logic offline securely

Recommendation
Bring your Notes client applications to the Web
with Xpages
● Preserves your investment in your current application's data and
business logic while providing a Web 2.0 developer experience
● Provides browser and mobile access and still allows you to take
that application securely offline with all application logic available
using the Notes client
● Expands the reach of your Domino applications to other IBM
platforms like WebSphere Portal and IBM Mashup Center thru
iWidgets

• Founded in 1990 • Primary Offerings
• Consistent Growth and Stability • Business Consulting
• Committed to our Client’s Success • Strategy Creation and
• Employee Delivery Model Planning
• Thought Leaders • Business Process
Improvement

• Technology Consulting
• Business & Technology Consulting
• Application Development
• “Business First” Approach
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Focus on Project-based work
• Enterprise Intelligence
• Pragmatic, Value-Add principles
• Web Solutions
• Mobile and Social Media

Who We Are
©2011 Property of PSC Group, LLC 18

We have extensive experience in Industry:
Manufacturing, Insurance, Retail, Distribution, Financial Services, Trading/Capital
Markets, Banking, M&A, Health Care, Services, Online Services/Retailers.

We are Experts in processes:
IT Strategy, IT Management/Governance, Business Process Automation, Supply Chain
Management, Search Engine Optimization, Mobile Application Strategies, CRM,
Portfolio/Project Management, Collaboration, Development/Deployment Methodologies
(Agile, Waterfall, etc.), Social Media Strategy, Solution Architecture, etc.

We are well versed with Technology:
Lotus Notes/Domino, WebSphere, Microsoft (.NET, SharePoint, C#, etc.), Java/J2EE, Oracle
Weblogic, SQL Server, Oracle Portal, Oracle Database, Python, Django,Cloud Platforms
(Amazon, Force, etc.), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft CRM, Open Source, iPhone,
BlackBerry ... and many more

What We Do
©2011 Property of PSC Group, LLC 19

 We are at an application crossroad
 Email has become a commodity
 Domino or Exchange
 Cloud or On Premises or Hybrid
 Email and application platforms being broken apart
 New platforms
 Smartphones are common place
 Tablets are here and growing

THE Question - What about my apps?
©2011 Property of PSC Group, LLC

 End User expect consumer Web 2.0 Experiences at
work

 End Users will find their own solutions if applications
are not updated

 Corporate IT must modernize or become irrelevant

End Users Expect Modern Applications

Documents & Discussions Enterprise Applications Business Applications

• 40% of total apps • 10% of total apps • 50% of total apps
• Based on Templates that • Highly transactional or • Mission Critical
come with Domino huge volumes of data • Organization Unique
• Recommendation: • Recommendation: • Heavy use of custom
• Move to standard • Rebuild on top of workflow and/or
platforms/apps Enterprise Java, .NET security
• Update with new or other technology • Recommendation:
XPages Templates • Move to the web via
from IBM (2011) XPages
• Use third party tool(s)
• LotusLive Engage
• Other Offerings

Existing Domino Application Types

 You should
 Maximize your investment in Lotus technology!
 Modernize your applications
 Make your users happy with appealing look-and-feel of
applications
 Develop once, use many times
 Extend your applications to the web and mobile devices
with XPages

Leveraging The Lotus Platform

 Modern Notes apps have:
◦ Appealing Web 2.0 front-end
◦ Modern Business Processes
◦ Standard Corporate Web Branding
◦ User Self Service
 Techniques used
◦ Web 2.0 Tools
 HTML
 JavaScript
 AJAX
 Java Toolkits
 Sencha
 jQuery
◦ XPages


• ‘Develop Once, Use Multiple Places’ is finally
reality
• Works in Notes Client, Browser, & Mobile
• XPages is developer friendly
• Notes developers with web dev skills can transition
easily
• Web developers can pick up XPages with basic
Domino training
• New Hires / College Grads can pick up XPages
development with a week of training

Why XPages?

Standard Notes Document Library

Modernization with XPages

Notes Client Application

Notes Client Custom Application

1. Take an existing Notes Client Application
2. Catalog the Notes Client Assets
3. Create XPages Application
4. Create Custom Theme
5. Build Mobile Interface
6. Compare with SharePoint application

Notes Client to XPages

XPages Document Workflow
in Notes Today

• 1 User Form – Agreement
• 4 Dialogs
• 5 System Forms – Keywords, Lookups
• 30 User Views
• 17 System Views
• Workflow & Business Logic
• 20 Agents
• 2 Script Libraries
• Export to Excel for Reporting
• User Interface Elements

XPages Document Workflow Details

XPages Document Workflow
with XPages UI

XPages Document
Workflow XPages
Interface for
Mobile

• Uses the OpenNTF.org Mobile Controls Project
• Provides Custom UI for iPhone and other mobile
devices

• Created a New XPages Interface
• Created Custom Theme with custom branding and color
scheme
• Only Interface Changes
• Home Page
• Document Workflow Form
• Views
• No changes to Workflow or Business Rules
• Used the XPages Mobile Controls on OpenNTF.org for
iPhone interface

XPages UI Details

Notes:

1. Custom Theme is a one time effort. Can be reused by all future XPages
Applications
2. Mobile Controls were created as Custom Controls that can be reused

XPages Development Results

• Same Notes Client application
• Document tasks to build feature comparable
SharePoint application
• Use SharePoint development best practices that
PSC uses with our customers
• Estimate development costs

Comparing XPages to SharePoint

• Create SharePoint Site
• Create Agreement Form & Dialogs
• Create Web Parts & Reports
• Create Keyword Lookup Lists
• Build Windows Workflows (not SharePoint Designer)
• Implement Security – Groups and Building Form Filters
• Build Excel Export
• Move Data using Third-Party Tool
• Create Master Page
• Create iPhone on top of SharePoint Mobile Extension

SharePoint Development Estimates

• PSC recommends Windows Workflow over SharePoint Workflow
using SharePoint Designer due to it’s quality and support
• iPhone development would be ASP.NET development talking to
SharePoint Web Services
• Security would use Active Directory Groups and function by
applying Filters to parts of the Form
• Data Export using Third Party tools would include documents, field
data, and attachments
• Master Page Estimate includes colors, corporate branding, logo,
and simple menu changes

Notes

 Your users are demanding modern applications in the

workplace

 Smartphones and Tablets will force you to embrace

Web 2.0 development platforms and techniques

 XPages is a mature web application platform

 You don't have to migrate to get Web 2.0 and Mobile

Application Modernization in 2011

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The information contained in this publication is provided for informational purposes only. While efforts were made to verify the completeness and accuracy of
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Directions for application development

● Social capabilities

● Mobile enablement of applications

● Accelerated development

Social capabilities transform the experience
● Enabling interactions through online social
networks
– Rich user profiles and social methods to collaborate,
share, and reuse content
● Enhancing situational awareness by
analyzing social data
– Consumer insight
– Expertise location
– Recommendations
● Supporting contextual collaboration by
integrating social capabilities into business
applications
– Communities
– Microblogging and content sharing
– Unified communications

Mobile applications increase reach and
engagement
Significant new business opportunities for application developers
● IBM strategy: Support the needs of
developers to target multiple
platforms, making it easy to quickly
mobilize a wide range of existing
and new applications, with
consistent extensibility across
platforms
● Start today with Domino XPages
apps, Connections mobile web,
Mobile Portal Accelerator
● Major focus of development in 2011

Accelerated development
● Make the new generation of
applications easy to build
– Productive tools
– Powerful and consistent APIs
– Integration capabilities Domino
Designer

● Fast-start options for Social Business
developers
– Ready to use appliances in the cloud
for developers
WebSphere
– Attractive licensing for developers PortletFactory

● Vibrant community engagement

Social Business is driven by
exceptional experiences

Business Deepen client Drive operational Optimize your
outcomes
relationships effectiveness workforce

Realized Exceptional Web Experiences Exceptional Work Experiences
through
Enable engaging customer interactions Enable nimble employee interactions
Self-service, with other customers, with Peer to peer and in teams, with customers
company representatives, and with the and partners, and with the company
company overall (brand, revenue) overall, business to employee

Enabled
by
IBM Social Business Framework
A modular and open set of capabilities that accelerate the
development of advanced Social Business solutions

IBM Social Business Framework
Services and Support
IBM Global Technology Global Business IBM Lab Enterprise Software
Business Partners Services Services Software Services Support

Solutions
Customer Research and Human capital Sales force Partner Supply chain
Operations
experience development management automation collaboration management

IBM Social Business Toolkit APIs

IBM Value-added Modules Partner Value-added Modules
Business Enterprise Public Social
Commerce Rich media
analytics content mgmt. social networks applications

Business Application Compliance
Social analytics Archiving Gaming
Process mgmt. integration & discovery

IBM Social Business Core Modules
Presence, Messaging Workflow
Profiles Communities Portal
chat & telephony & PIM & forms

Social collab. Meetings Document
Microblogging Mobile Connectors
services & audio/video management

Lead the industry with open
standards for Social Business
● A commitment to drive and leverage open web standards
– Maximize choice, agility, and ease of integration
– Drive enterprise innovation and leverage rapid innovation on the web
– Minimize incremental cost of targeting additional desktop and mobile platforms
– Leverage dominant skillsets based around web technologies
● Enabling the next generation of socially-enabled solutions on customers'
existing investments and heterogeneous infrastructures
● A runtime-agnostic approach allows you to use established runtime
technologies: Java, Domino, etc.
HTML5 ARIA Atom

SAML

Introducing the IBM Social Business Toolkit

IBM Social Business Toolkit APIs

● Brings together a set of strategic social APIs to simplify development
● APIs for Connections, Sametime, Domino, Quickr, etc. services with new
cross-product capabilities coming soon
● Runtime enablement in Lotus Domino, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Connections,
and LotusLive as well as mobile runtime support
● Tooling support for Web, Domino and Java developers
● Leverages technology consistency in IBM products
– APIs based on web patterns including JSON, ATOM, REST
– Runtime technologies such as OSGi, Dojo, HTML
– Tooling based on Eclipse

Coming soon, our first deliveries of the Vulcan Strategy:

New unified APIs for the
IBM Social Business Toolkit

Embedded
Experiences

Activity Streams Share Box

●New APIs and services designed to help developers build unified user
experiences and consistent extensibility independent of product, delivery model
(cloud, on-premises), and client type (desktop client, browser, mobile)
Activity Streams API available for developer use starting today on Greenhouse
●

First GA releases planned for Connections Next, Notes Next...
●

Next steps for Notes/Domino developers
● Learn to use XPages
– It is the strategic direction for N/D application development
– Start from http://xpages.info
– Download ready-to-use libraries and components from openNTF.org
● XPages Extension Library, Mobile controls, Connections components...
● Invest into the new technology trends
– HTML5, CSS
– Mobile platforms
– JavaScript, Dojo
– Gadgets, iWidgets, OpenSocial
● Start to use Java pervasively
– XPages business logic, agents...
– Discover the power and flexibility of OSGi
● Java tasklets from openNTF, XPages Extensibility API
● Use Domino in the context of the broader Social Business Framework
– Make your applications social!

XPages Jumpstart for Notes Developers
1) Get the Mastering XPages Book
1). http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0132486318

2)Enter IBM6318 as the coupon code for 35% off

2) Follow the Podcasts

1) http://notesin9.com

2) http://thexcast.net/

3) Work thru Declan Lynch's XPages Tutorial

1) http://www.qtzar.com/blogs/qtzar.nsf/Document.xsp?documentId=A97DB47B9BEDB9868525756F005BC3C3&action=openDocument

Summary
● Social Business applications build on our heritage...
● ...but Social Business today demands new types of applications
– Beyond the firewall
– Systems of systems
– Both Cloud and on-premises
● The IBM Social Business Framework enables IBM customers and partners to
capitalize on Social Business opportunities
– All IBM collaboration products are part of the framework
– Big opportunities for general web developers and established Lotus developers, building on their
existing skills
● The new IBM Social Business Toolkit are planned to enable a new class of unified
social capabilities based on the latest born-on-the web open standards
– Consistent extensibility across products, deployment models and user experiences
● Easy to get started with today's products and
cloud developer options

Enabling the community
●
DeveloperWorks
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/
– http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/community/wikis.html
●
Greenhouse
– https://greenhouse.lotus.com
●
openNTF.org
– http://www.openntf.org
●
xpages.info
– http://xpages.info/XPagesHome.nsf/Home.xsp
●
Videos – Youtube, VideoFest...
– https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wikis/home?
lang=en#/wiki/W6696b8ac7465_4a5f_9327_94f1a5d82132/page/VideoFest
●
Resources also provided by the community
– http://xpages.tv/, http://xpagesblog.com/...

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