Best use of IBM Connections Files and Profiles

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Date:
Best use of IBM Connections Files
and Profiles
28 June 2016

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Open Mic Team
 Shrikant Jamkhandi
 Presenter
 Dinesh Patel
 Presenter
 Ranjit Rai - IBM ICS SWAT
 Focusing on entire Notes/Domino
 Narendra Nesarikar – IBM ICS Support Facilitator for Open Mics
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Agenda
 What is IBM Connections
 How it will help your business
 What you are getting as a part of your Notes/Domino entitlement for IBM connections
 What you need to install to get the Files and Profiles components
 How to use Profiles
 How to use Files
 Q&A
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What is IBM Connections
 IBM Connections is a leading social software, designed to meet the needs of business.
 Empowers business professionals to be more innovative and productive, by helping them identify
and build networks of subject matter experts..
 Facilitates the creation of vibrant communities of employees, business partners, and customers
where creative ideas can be exchanged that can foster increased business growth.
 Helps teams to accomplish their business objectives, whether they are located locally or distributed
geographically.
 Provides integrations with other IBM products like (Sametime, IBM Docs, File viewer, Filenet,
Cognos, FEB, Connections Mail)
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How it will help your business?
 Multiple applications bundled in single package
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What you are getting as a part of your Notes/Domino entitlement ?
 IBM Connections Files and profiles is free entitled with IBM Domino Messaging Express & IBM
Domino Collaboration Express.
 All customers with above entitlement are eligible to use the Files and Profiles for their organization
for social collaboration.
 Installer for IBM connections enterprise OR Files and Profiles is same however, during the
installation you need to select only the Files and Profiles which are free entitled with Notes/Domino
entitlement.
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What you are getting as a part of your Notes/Domino Entitled ? ( Continued )
Profiles:
 Quickly find the people and resources you need to get work done.
 Showcase your own expertise.
 Post a status message informing your network what you are working on.
 Grow and maintain your professional network.
Files:
 Share files with selected individuals, groups or make them public.
 Manage versions and allow others to upload new versions.
 Tag files so they're easy to find.
 Add recommendations and comments.
 See who’s downloaded your file, what version they downloaded and when they downloaded it.

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What you need to install to get the Files and Profiles components
Below applications are required
 WebSphere Application server (Network Deployment)
 IBM HTTP Server (IHS Server)
 DB Server (Oracle, DB2 or SQL)
 TDI
 LDAP
 Connections
Note: All software are bundled together except LDAP as your Domino server will act as LDAP
server.
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How to use Profiles?
 My Profile Tab
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How to use Profiles? continued…
 My Profile Tab
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How to use Profiles? continued…
 My Network Tab
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How to use Profiles? continued…
 My Network Tab - Invitations, Following & Followers
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How to use Profiles? continued…
 My Directory Tab
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How to use Profiles? continued…
 Edit My profile
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How to use Files?
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How to use Files? continued…
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How to use Files? continued…
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Uploading a File/Files
Creating a Folder

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How to use Files? continued…
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Working with
uploaded files

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How to use Files? continued…
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Working with uploaded files continued

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References
IBM Connections 4.5 Files and Profiles applications for IBM Notes 8.5.3 and 9.0.x : -
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21508958
IBM Domino Express Offerings
https://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/domino-express-licensing.html
Download IBM Connections 5.5
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24041291
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