Domino app dev competitive advantage final

Domino Applicat ion Development
Compet it ive Advant age
An IdoSphere webinar
Presented by: John Head, PSC Group, LLC & David Via, IBM
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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 ”
• Advant ages of Dom ino over Micr osof t Shar epoint

Not es f r om t he f ield – PSC's r eal wor ld exper iences

Dom ino Applicat ion Developm ent Tom or r ow - The IBM Social
Business Fr am ewor k

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 final

To this with xPages - Jacobs eLite 2.0

Agenda

Dom ino Applicat ion Developm ent Today – “not your Fat her 's
Designer ”
• Advantages of Domino over Microsoft Sharepoint



Reasons not to move Notes apps to
SharePoint

Claim s hear d about why one should m ove t o Shar epoint
• Shar ePoint could easily r eplace t he Rapid Applicat ion
developm ent f eat ur e set of Lot us Not es
• Shar ePoint is self ser vice dr iven and t her ef or e will need less
developm ent r esour ces t han a new Lot us Not es envir onm ent

While in r ealit y
• What m ost consider t o be sim ple Not es client applicat ions
of t en r equir e moderate to significant developm ent ef f or t t hat
cannot be done wit h Shar ePoint Designer and r equir e Visual
St udio and .Net developm ent skills
• Com plex applicat ions wit h business logic and wor kf low ar e not
suit able f or Shar ePoint and r equir e .Net developm ent and
addit ional Micr osof t pr oduct s t o pr ovide t he sam e level of
capabilit y you get in one pr oduct (Lot us Dom ino)

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

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

Br ing your Not es client applicat ions t o t he Web wit h 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

Agenda

Designer ”

Notes from the field – PSC's real world experiences


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

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

XPages Document Workflow XPages
Interface for Mobile

• 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

Agenda

Designer ”


Domino Application Development Tomorrow - The IBM Social
Business Framework

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Directions for application development

Social capabilit ies

Mobile enablem ent of applicat ions

Acceler at ed developm ent

Social capabilities transform the
experience

Enabling interactions t hr ough online
social net wor ks
• Rich user pr of iles and social m et hods t o
collabor at e, shar e, and r euse cont ent
Enhancing situational awareness by
analyzing social dat a
• Consum er insight
• Exper t ise locat ion
• Recom m endat ions
Supporting contextual collaboration by
int egr at ing social capabilit ies int o
business applicat ions
• Com m unit ies
• Micr oblogging and cont ent shar ing
• Unif ied com m unicat ions

Mobile applications increase reach and engagement
Significant new business opportunities for application developers

IBM strategy: Suppor t t he needs
of developer s t o t ar get m ult iple
plat f or m s, m aking it easy t o
quickly m obilize a wide r ange of
exist ing and new applicat ions,
wit h consist ent ext ensibilit y
acr oss plat f or m s
St ar t t oday wit h Dom ino XPages
apps, Connect ions m obile web,
Mobile Por t al Acceler at or
Maj or f ocus of developm ent in
2011

Accelerated development

Make t he new gener at ion of
applicat ions easy t o build
• Pr oduct ive t ools
• Power f ul and consist ent APIs
Domino
• Int egr at ion capabilit ies Designer

Fast -st ar t opt ions f or Social
Business developer s
• Ready t o use appliances in t he
cloud f or developer s
• At t r act ive licensing f or WebSphere
PortletFactory
developer s

Vibr ant com m unit y engagem ent

Technical strategy
Extend existing platforms with social capabilities

Sim plif y t he st ack, em phasizing a f ocused set of com m on
t echnologies acr oss IBM and t hir d-par t y capabilit ies
Make it easy f or (lot s of ) developer s t o build Social Business
applicat ions – im pr ove developer pr oduct ivit y and incr ease
skills availabilit y f or our cust om er s

An evolut ionar y st r at egy cr eat es m any oppor t unit ies f or
developer s
Enhance exist ing applicat ions wit h new capabilit ies wit hout
r ewr it ing
Cr eat e ent ir ely new applicat ions wit h exist ing skills and
t echnology invest m ent s
St ar t t he jour ney t oday wit h cur r ent IBM pr oduct s

Technical strategy
Lead the industry with open standards for Social Business

A com m it m ent t o dr ive and lever age open web st andar ds
• Maxim ize choice, agilit y, and ease of int egr at ion
• Dr ive ent er pr ise innovat ion and lever age r apid innovat ion on t he web
• Minim ize incr em ent al cost of t ar get ing addit ional deskt op and m obile
plat f or m s
• Lever age dom inant skillset s based ar ound web t echnologies
Enabling t he next gener at ion of socially-enabled solut ions on
cust om er s' exist ing invest m ent s and het er ogeneous
inf r ast r uct ur es
A r unt im e-agnost ic appr oach allows you t o use est ablished
r unt im e t echnologies: Java, Dom ino, et c.

HTML5 ARIA At om

SAML

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

Coming soon, our first deliveries of the Vulcan Strategy:
New unified APIs for the IBM Social Business Toolkit

Activity Streams Embedded Share Box
Experiences

●
New APIs and ser vices designed t o help developer s build unified
user exper iences and consistent extensibility independent of
pr oduct , deliver y m odel (cloud, on-pr em ises), and client t ype
(deskt op client , br owser , m obile)
●
Act ivit y St r eam s API available f or developer use st ar t ing t oday on
Gr eenhouse
●
Fir st GA r eleases planned f or Connect ions Next , Not es Next ...

Introducing the IBM Social
Business Toolkit

IBM Social Business Toolkit APIs

Br ings t oget her a set of st r at egic social APIs t o sim plif y
developm ent
APIs for Connect ions, Sam et im e, Dom ino, Quickr , et c. ser vices wit h
new cr oss-pr oduct capabilit ies com ing soon
Runtime enablement in Lot us Dom ino, WebSpher e Por t al, Lot us
Connect ions, and Lot usLive as well as m obile r unt im e suppor t
Tooling suppor t f or Web, Dom ino and Java developer s
Lever ages t echnology consist ency in IBM pr oduct s
• APIs based on web pat t er ns including JSON, ATOM, REST
• Runt im e t echnologies such as OSGi, Doj o, HTML
• Tooling based on Eclipse

Next steps for
Notes/Domino developers

Lear n t o use XPages
• It is t he st r at egic dir ect ion f or N/ D applicat ion developm ent
• St ar t f r om ht t p:/ / xpages.inf o
• Download r eady-t o-use libr ar ies and com ponent s f r om openNTF.or g
• XPages Ext ension Libr ar y, Mobile cont r ols, Connect ions component s...
Invest int o t he new t echnology t r ends
• HTML5, CSS
• Mobile plat f or m s
• JavaScr ipt , Doj o
• Gadget s, iWidget s, OpenSocial
St ar t t o use Java per vasively
• XPages business logic, agent s...
• Discover t he power and f lexibilit y of OSGi
• Java t asklet s f r om openNTF, XPages Ext ensibilit y API
Use Dom ino in t he cont ext of t he br oader Social Business Fr am ewor k
• Make your applicat ions social!

XPages Jumpstart for Notes Developers

1) Get t he Mast er ing XPages Book
1). ht t p:/ / www.ibm pr essbooks.com / bookst or e/ pr oduct .asp?isbn=0132486318

2)Ent er IBM6318 as t he coupon code f or 35% of f

2) Follow t he Podcast s
1) ht t p:/ / not esin9.com

2) ht t p:/ / t hexcast .net /

3) Wor k t hr u Declan Lynch's XPages Tut or ial
1) ht t p:/ / www.qt zar .com / blogs/ qt zar .nsf / Docum ent .xsp?
docum ent Id=A97DB47B9BEDB9868525756F005BC3C3&act ion=openDocum ent

Summary

Social Business applicat ions build on our her it age...
...but Social Business t oday dem ands new t ypes of applicat ions
• Beyond t he f ir ewall
• Syst ems of syst em s
• Bot h Cloud and on-pr em ises
The IBM Social Business Fr am ewor k enables IBM cust om er s and par t ner s
t o capit alize on Social Business oppor t unit ies
• All IBM collabor at ion pr oduct s ar e par t of t he f r am ewor k
• Big oppor t unit ies f or gener al web developer s and est ablished Lot us developer s,
building on t heir exist ing skills
The new IBM Social Business Toolkit ar e planned t o enable a new class of
unif ied social capabilit ies based on t he lat est bor n-on-t he web open
st andar ds
• Consist ent ext ensibilit y acr oss pr oduct s, deploym ent m odels and user exper iences
Easy t o get st ar t ed wit h t oday's pr oduct s and cloud developer opt ions

Enabling the community

Developer Wor ks
• ht t p:/ / www.ibm .com / developer wor ks/
• ht t p:/ / www.ibm .com / developer wor ks/ lot us/ com m unit y/ wikis.ht m l
Gr eenhouse
• ht t ps:/ / gr eenhouse.lot us.com
openNTF.or g
• ht t p:/ / www.opennt f .or g
xpages.inf o
• ht t p:/ / xpages.inf o/ XPagesHom e.nsf / Hom e.xsp
Videos – Yout ube, VideoFest ...
• ht t ps:/ / gr eenhouse.lot us.com / wikis/ hom e?
lang=en#/ wiki/ W6696b8ac7465_4a5f _9327_94f1a5d82132/ page/ VideoFe
st
Resour ces also pr ovided by t he com m unit y
• ht t p:/ / xpages.t v/ , ht t p:/ / xpagesblog.com / ...

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