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27/092018

Sponsor highlight: Belsoft

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Our next Gold level sponsor, Belsoft,  is situated in the middle of great mountains of Switzerland and therefore they can post on Twitter top class views from their office and thus make other business partners jealous. Besides that, they are known as active members of the ICS community and true believers in IBM Connections. They often share their experience and great customer stories such as University of Zurich. Perhaps it is somehow related to their motto “doesn’t work does not exist”.

Seriously, Belsoft provides a variety of solutions in IBM Collaborations Solutions including platforms to increase your productivity, integration with third party systems, software engineering for individual applications, software licensing and management, training and security.

We are happy to welcome Belsoft again at one of our conferences.

 

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26/092018

Sponsor highlight: panagenda

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Hello again from the main tent. Let me introduce panagenda (yes, it is written with a small p), our long-term sponsor.

panagenda is a well know player in IBM Collaboration Solutions who always has something new to show us. panagenda develops a variety of products for IBM Notes/Domino and – of course – for IBM Connections.  As their motto is “make your data work for you”, panagenda’s products really provide valuable insight into your collaboration infrastructure and user behavior. Regarding IBM Connections, panagenda offers Connections Expert (CE), an analytical tool for your Connections environment, and Social adoption services.

panagenda usually sends the largest team to our conference and regularly occupies several speaking slots. Their sessions on administration or adoption (eh, on adaptation – sorry Luis ) are legendary so you don’t want to miss them – nor their booth.

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19/092018

Sponsor highlight: AppFusions

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There is less than 30 days until Social Connections 14 in Berlin so it is high time to introduce our lovely sponsors, without whom we can not run our events. This time we will start with letter A, as for AppFusions or AppSpokes, their ready-to-go integrations.

AppSpokes for IBM Connections offers almost 20 integrations – both for cloud or on-premises – such as Salesforce, Box.com, Microsoft Sharepoint, Google Drive, Atlassian Jira, Dropbox, etc. AppFusions is also active in digital experience (DX), workspace and digital transformation, so do not fotget to attend their session and visit their booth.

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27/042018

Sponsor highlight: HCL

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Though HCL has been a strategic partner of IBM  for several years it might be a kind of a company you have never heard of. So let us change it.

HCL is a global corporation with more than 100.000 employees doing business in 32 countries. Regrading IBM business, HCL does development of multiple IBM software products for several years. Once the new strategic partnership in IBM Notes/Domino has been announced, their name resonates a lot within the IBM Collaboration Solutions community.

You can read more about IBM – HCL partnership here.

We are glad that HCL decided to sponsor also Social Connections and to show us what they cook in their labs. Since they took over development of Notes/Domino, we can witness many things to move faster. Good luck HCL and show us some cool Connections integration soon!

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11/042018

Sponsor highlight: KUDOS

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Many have heard about Kudos Badges, the most wide-spread extension for IBM Connections which is used by millions of users in 30 countries.

Kudos Badges are now part of Kudos Suite, built by our foremost sponsor from Austalia, ISW. Did you know Kudos has evolved with apps designed to increase productivity, measure utilisation and reward performance, as well as allow teams to collaborate on activities better? Kudos Boards has been taking the world by storm with its Kanban approach to task management and teamwork, and now, Kudos has added Buzzy to its suite for instantaneous and user friendly app creation to make any workplace more agile.

Come to Philadelphia to learn also more about Ideas, the latest innovation from Kudos that allows you to create rooms where peers can raise, review and vote on ideas across the workplace and elevate ideas into actions.

Kudos is one of Social Connections long time sponsors for as long as I can remember. So thank you Kudos, from our team we are very happy to meet again in Philly!

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25/032018

Sponsor highlight: panagenda

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Our next sponsor is a big player in ICS with a small ‘p’ – yes, it is panagenda!

panagenda offers a wide portfolio of applications and add-ons for IBM Notes, Domino and, of course, IBM Connections. Their services cover analytics and optimization, transformation and migration, social adoption, business intelligence, strategy, IT security. Don’t forget to check their products such as ConnectionsExpert or ESN Health Check while you attend Social Connections 13.

panagenda is our long-term and loyal sponsor and a big supporter of Social Connections that often picks the premium sponsor packages and offers multiple speakers for every conference. Last but not least, people from panagenda help(ed) many times to run our events – Femke, Christoph and now Nico. Thank you again, panagenda!

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12/032018

Sponsor highlight: Riva CRM

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Our second gold Sponsor is Riva. Riva is one of our trusted sponsors and we are really happy to have them join us again.

Riva integrates the world’s best CRM systems – Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SAP Cloud for Customer, Oracle Sales Cloud, SugarCRM, NetSuite, and others – directly with IBM Collaboration Solutions.

By doing so it allows you to seamlessly sync CRM contacts, calendars, tasks, email, opportunities, cases, custom fields, and custom objects with IBM Verse, IBM Smart Cloud Notes, IBM Notes and Domino, and IBM Notes Traveler mobile devices. Helping IBM customers bridge the CRM integration gap, drive sales productivity, deliver better customer experiences, and improve CRM adoption and satisfaction.

Check out the Riva booth at social Connections to see more about the Riva products or visit their website for more information  www.rivacrmintegration.com/integrations/ibm-notes/.

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11/032018

Sponsor highlight: AppFusions

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Hi all,

many of you perhaps finish preparation for IBM Think but it is also a high time to introduce our nice sponsors without whom we can not run our Social Connections events. As usual, we start with our Gold sponsors “in order of appearence” followed by the rest. And by accident we start with letter A – A as for AppFusions.

I bet you already know AppFusion for their AppSpokes integration for IBM Connections – a solution that integrates many aplications or service by 3rd party vendors into IBM Connections, both cloud and on premises:

I am pretty sure that AppFusions has some news  so come and check their booth in Philadelphia. You can learn more at www.appsusions.com

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29/092017

Sponsor highlight – The Team from Kudos!

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Here is Part 4 of our blogging series where we highlight our Platinum and Gold sponsors.

And Today it’s time for our Gold sponsor – The team from Kudos!

Kudos have been long time supporters of Social Connections and it is great to see them make the long trip to Vienna!.

In addition to their widely used Kudos Badges and Kudos Analytics, they are showcasing some of their latest innovations around Connections and Watson Workspace.

Kudos Boards (Pink!) transforms Activities within IBM Connections into a visually manageable format. Leveraging the tried and true method known as Kanban, Kudos Boards features the ability to filter by person, priority or colour, and drag and drop your Tasks as activities progress or circumstances change. Now, Boards is available in the cloud, on prem, and for Connections Pink!

Buzzy for IBM Connections brings intelligent instant apps for IBM Connections and Watson Workspace. Empowering citizen developers to create cognitive apps within IBM Connections to engage both internal and external users, all in a matter of minutes!

Kudos Ideas is the teams latest innovation. Introducing a ideation space where peers can raise, review and vote on ideas across the workplace – whether for management, project, marketing, human resources or even team building activities, Kudos Ideas empowers colleagues to think proactively, innovate together, and execute on their ideas.

Kudos has a session that will showcase each of these new innovations, as well as a session by Jay Agrawal that shows how you can also develop solutions like Kudos for Connections Pink!

You can also find out more about Kudos on their Website

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10/062016

Social Connections 10 was our biggest North American event, and our third largest ever!

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Social Connections 10 community

I am high in the sky over Atlantic heading back to Europe so I have had several hours to think about a recap of our last event in Toronto. Wow, it was a blast again!

After many weeks of hectic preparations, the two conference days ran as racing horses. Now there is a time to recover, take some breath and shout “Oh my, we did it again!”

First of all, we had a fabulous event with more then 200 attendees, 18 sponsors, 64 sessions, and 70 speakers.View from the venue

Thank you all so much for coming!

We had all the ingredients that make a good event – a great venue (perhaps the best ever) with a VIEW of the nice city of Toronto, awesome speakers, exciting agenda, some great announcements and especially you – the attendees. All together, it created an atmosphere – as some say – “that no other user group has”.

Let me highlight just few items:

  • There was exclusive content delivered by IBM product managers and execs such as Luis Benitez, Baan Slavens, Rob Ingram and Chris Crummey.
  • We had multiple great case studies from big, well-known customers such as Lowes, TD Bank and RBC
  • Well-known analysts Dion Hinchcliffe and Alan Lepofsky shared their insights
  • We saw Project Toscana code running live for the first time!
  • We have seen what’s new and coming in IBM Connections
  • We practiced Design Thinking once again
  • Our sponsors announced new products and enhancements (such as ConnectionsExpert from panagenda, our spotlight sponsor)
  • We had a new mobile app which received a very warm welcome
  • There was a masterclass on Connections adoption from Luis Suarez
  • There was a closing “Ask IBM” session moderated by Ed Brill
  • Over 100 people watched our live stream the first day
  • And last but not least we had great fun, including a gala event in the Hockey Hall of Fame (where all our attendees could touch the famous Stanley Cup!)

At the moment, we are collecting presentations from our speakers and will publish them on SlideShare over the next week or so. All “official” photos have been already uploaded to Flickr and we hope that some people find a new profile image there 🙂 If you have your own photos or videos that you want to share, then just let us know.

We announced that the next event will take place in Southern Europe late this year, with more details coming in August.

I hope that everybody enjoyed the event as much as the Social Connections team did! Thank you all again for coming, and special thanks to IBM Canada and to our sponsors, as without them we could not run these events.

Enjoy the summer and see you all at Social Connections 11!

Jan, Bill, Christoph, Doug, Femke, Lars, Maria, Martin, Simon and Wannes

 

Social Connections team

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