Überblick darüber, wo sich IBM Connections derzeit befindet, welche neuen Funktionen und Anpassungen zu erwarten sind und wohin die Reise mit IBM Connections in Zukunft gehen wird.

1. Bringing the
Future of Work to Today

2. IBM ICS is shaping the future of work
with intelligent workstream
collaboration.

3. Bringing It All Together
Intelligent Workstream Collaboration
A unified portfolio. Bringing together our offerings into a seamless experience, so you
have what you need when you need it.
Enhanced human workflow. Leveraging technologies within IBM Collaboration Solutions,
across IBM, and beyond, to deliver intelligent work stream collaboration for industry use
cases.
Built with Watson. Applying unprecedented intelligence to your work – to make you and
your teams more efficient and effective in everything you do.
© 2017 Gartner, Inc

4. The Future of Work – Our Vision
To make every person in your
organization work like the best,
brightest, and most connected
individuals, by augmenting their
abilities with the power of
Watson to drive action-oriented
outcomes.

16. A meeting has started. I can catch up
in real time with Watson as the
minutes taker

31. Our Guiding Principles
Employee engagement
is becoming both more essential and yet more difficult.
Intelligently Doing More With Less
Every interaction, conversation, and business asset can
generate valuable insight, which is currently untapped.
Innovation
Environments need to be agile and adapt to unforeseen
business needs; invest for future need, don’t become
locked into the past
Connecting…
People with People
People with
Cognitive Systems
People with Ideas

32. Last year we asked you to embark on a
Pink journey with us…

33. IBM Connections PINK
Our Journey To Date
Accomplishments
• Skills developed
• Foundation laid
• Components delivered
• Customers engaged
• Showcase cadence
Lessons Learned
• A new world
• Balance
benefit with
effort
• Technical
execution
Continuing the Journey
• Deliver “Pink” outcomes
• Workstream collaboration
• More groundwork that drives efficiency
• Deployment optimization
• Content Service and more

34. IBM Connections
Create and tailor a personalized digital workplace hub — without calling IT.
Delivering on the vision – driving new value in client engagement, personalization and
compelling user experiences
• Connections 6 now available; and the new
Connections mobile experience
• Personalizing Connections with Orient Me
for web and mobile
• Tailor Connections for your Org with
Connections Customizer, Elastic Search
and contemporary Visual Updates
• Integrated with Watson Workspace,
Webex, and soon Zoom

35. IBM Connections Engagement Center
Surface and action the content that matters most.
Driving success through an engaged workforce
• Centralize communications & where you
do work via a homepage and landing
pages for your corporation, org, or team
• Content and layout can be easily
customized
• IBM Connections social features
(comments, likes) are associated with
each story and post
• Anyone can author content in IBM
Connections and have it automatically
published and promoted

36. 1. Activity-stream
2. ATOM / RSS Feed
3. Clipping
4. Community description
5. Community members
6. Community overview
7. Event
8. Files
9. Files explorer
10. Forum
11. HTML
12. Ideation-blog
13. iFrame
14. Important links
15. Kudos leaderboard 2
16. Links
17. Media gallery
18. My Communities
19. My Links
20. My Notes
21. My Quicklinks
22. Navigation
23. News
24. News channel
25. News list
26. News overview
27. News slider
28. People birthday 1
29. People finder
30. People selector
31. Pinned files
32. Popular content
33. Preferences
34. Profile completion
35. Profile picture
36. Profile tagging
37. Saved search
38. Static content - blog
39. Static content - wiki
40. Suggestions 1
(people& communities)
41. Tag cloud
42. Teaser
43. Top news
44. FEB Data Widget 1,2
45. FEB Form Widget 1,2
46. Website navigation
& Breadcrumb Path
47. 22 x IBM Connections
My Page widgets
64. IBM Connections 1
65. Activity-stream
& right column
66. Custom widgets API
1 Not available in IBM Connections Cloud
2 Requires additional license
ICEC Widgets & Page Elements

37. IBM Watson Workspace
Turn conversations into actions, with the built-in power of Watson.
Putting Watson in the hands of end users
• Launched 2 new offerings,
Watson Workspace Essentials and Plus.
• Core collaboration capabilities leveraging a
conversational UI. Designed for teams to do their
best work
• Plus includes video + audio meetings, powered
by Zoom
• Artificial intelligence is built-in. Summarization,
Prioritization and personalization

38. E n h a n c e d H u m a n W o r k f l o w
Compelling user experiences,
bringing together the ICS
portfolio
U n i f i e d P o r t f o l i o
I n t e l l i g e n c e &
P e r s o n a l i z a t i o n
Applying intelligence &
personalization to your work
Thread your work together through unified
user experiences across multiple
integrations
Intelligent Workstream Collaboration
Delivering Results

39. Now
Intelligent Workstream Collaboration
Delivering Results: Right Now
Connections Files & Watson
Workspace integration
Connections Customizer
Orient Me - Contemporary user
experience, personalizing your
Connections content updates
Watson Workspace, intelligent
conversation, moment
summarization, and Zoom video
integration

40. Now
Intelligent Workstream Collaboration
Delivering Results: Next
Consumer grade user experiences!
- New Community landing pages
- A single editor makes life simpler
- Customizable community notifications &
newsletters
- Files navigation & view enhancements
based upon the way you’re working
- onPrem UI enhancements unifying
the look and feel cross-portfolio
- Customizable & sharable templates
for WWS
The metrics changes you’ve been waiting
for! Data retention & migration; report
export and more feature enhancements

41. 41
Files – Improved
Navigation and User
Experience
• Defaults to the files you work with most.
• Simplify Files navigation to show files and
folders together in a familiar way.
• Just type to immediately filter the list to find
what you need.
• Pick up where you left off because the system
remembers the last view and sort you were
using.
• Group options to filter Files together and remove
redundancy.
• Get to File details and sharing directly form the
list.
Subject to change

42. 42
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: All Files - Sort by Recent - Files you recently
worked with are on top

43. 43
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: All Files - Refine the list to focus on what’s important

44. 44
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: All Files - Sort by Pinned - Pinned files on top,
followed by recent files

45. 45
New Communities Home
Page
• Updated layout makes it easy to open the
community you are looking for.
• Pinned communities and recently viewed
communities allow for quick access.
• Integrated search bar shortens the time to
find the community you are looking for.
• Continuous scroll replaces the need to
click through and reload multiple pages.
• Filter options help narrow down the
search.
Subject to change

46. 46
Proposed To-Be: Communities Home Page
Design Subject to Change

47. 47
Notifications – Weekly
Newsletter
• Default email notifications get a visual
refresh based on new design guide
• Ability to include your site name, for
example Greenwell Connect
• Ability to customize colors to match your
branding (associated with overall site
branding customization)
• Streamline and organize content to help
users focus on what’s important
Subject to change

48. 48
Proposed To-Be: Newsletter customized to show site name and brand colors.
Design Subject to Change

49. 49
Send Email Notification from
a Blog entry
• Same To-Be points from Email Newsletter
updates.
• Streamline and organize content to help users
focus on what’s important
• Increase visibility of option to Notify the
Community of a blog entry or events
– Provide option to notify whole community with
one click
• Include an excerpt from the blog entry or event
in the email notification
Subject to change

50. 50
Today: Community Events > Specific Event >
More Actions > Notify Other People
Today: Community Blogs > Blog Entry >
More Actions > Notify Other People

51. 51
Communities - Continue to evolve communities to ensure they
are easy to set up and create, with a compelling design
experience.
Tailored to Me…
– recognizes the individual needs of
team members
– surfaces what they need for
effective contribution
Tailored to Us…
– work/communicate transparently
– small team project work
– medium / large team project work
– broadcast style spaces (info
sharing / resources / training /…)
Designissubjecttochange

52. 52
Outcomes Based Solutions
Subject to change
• Sales Deal Rooms
• IT Service Management
• Crisis Response
• Intelligent search (people,
content, etc.)
• Embedded Forms, Views
• Templates

53. 53
As a business user, I can integrate enterprise systems of record to fit into
the flow of my work without writing code
IBMConnectionsGrid
Design is subject to change
• Low-code application builder
designed to empower business
users and developers to create
interactive and flexible
applications.
• Securely connect to enterprise
backend systems of record such
as Domino or Salesforce and
create integrated interfaces in
which to input/read data at ease
• Deploy apps within the context of
your workflow in Watson
Workspace.

54. Metrics – Priority Outcomes
• Date Range Filter:
• All Years
• Custom
• Group By Filter:
• Geography
• Role
• Department
• Additional reporting on Profiles, Communities, Bookmarks
• Historic data migration
• Exporting of data
Subject to change

55. Now
People Service MVP on Cloud, connecting
WWS & Connections portfolios with people
Foundational work for Watson Work service
integration to Connections data OnPrem
‘Intelligent Meetings’ via WWS
OrientMe Next – personalization + Watson
Integrations with key business apps
to integrate your work experience across
your team
Intelligent Workstream Collaboration
Delivering Results: Future

56. 56 concept
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: People Service

57. 57 concept
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: People Service

58. 58 concept
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: People Service

59. 59
concept
Design Subject to Change
Proposed To-Be: People Service

60. Announcements From DNUG
• Connections 6 CR2 now available on Fix Central!
• We have heard you… the RFE (Requests for Enhancements)
Community is coming this summer!
• The Intelligent Collaboration Community comes to you! (Similar to
#domino2025)

61. Thank you for your attention!
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