I've been dilligently following the developments of today's presentation where both IBM and Microsoft are presenting their social computing platforms. IBM, of course, is pushing Lotus Connections. Microsoft, is trying very hard to push Sharepoint, their document-centric solution. (they still don't get that social software applications should be person-centric...oh well!)
Since I'm not at the Enterprise 2.0 conference itself, I've been watching what the Twitterverse is saying about it. Clearly, IBM has won this round!! I'm so excited to hear non-IBMers get excited about Lotus Connections and see how Sharepoint really doesn't hit the mark. Here are some recent comments:
trib: #e20 MS failing dismally at showing off Sharepoint collab tools. IBM totally ate their lunch.
kpearlson: watcihng MS demonstrate SharePoint in an 'out of the box' manner...seems very slow and not as intuitive as Lotus Connections
gialyons: hearing Lotus Connections (Suzanne and Heidi) is winning the E2.0 debate with LLiu and Sharepoint. No surprise here.
eughenes: MS presenting SharePoint's as social computing platform, nice try but not serious at all. It is NOT a SC platform.
jhariani: MS getting pummelled on their SharePoint for SNS demo: http://community.e2conf.com/community/sessions/monday/t1
kreid451: listening to SharePoint demo at E2.0. It's really not in the same ballpark with Lotus Connections, the last demo
robberthomburg: #e20 IBM connections 2.0 seems more complete than SP2007! maybee less flexible?
Up to this point, I have NOT seen anything positive feedback about Microsoft. I'll keep watching the Twitterverse, but it definitely looks like IBM and Lotus Connections have won this round! Congratulations to Suzanne Minassian and Heidi Votaw!
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Update... Microsoft has publicly conceded first round to IBM!! http://twitter.com/LLiu/statuses/830674648... Go Lotus Connections!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Luis! I hope your evangelism trip goes well!! And thanks for posting this!
ReplyDeleteLuis, I was at the conference as well. I want to dive into the euphemism I heard afterwards - decimation, cleaned their clock, obliterated them, but it sounds biased. Fact was, IBM gave a much more engaging presentation that showed how teams could implement what they had, and how it had value for users. MS's presentation was awkward. They should have taken a different approach. Lockheed Martin just gave a really strong presentation where they showed how they used Sharepoint to build their site with 2.0 elements. I was very impressed as were the other Sharepoint users in the room. MS should have demo'd an elegant implementation - not how many vendors worked with their software which doesn't do much out of the blocks.
ReplyDeleteHi trekbody,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by and giving me your perspective. I definitely need to go next year -- I can't miss this!
Sounds like, just maybe, Microsoft took round 2? Tell me more about the Lockheed presentation. Were they using out-of-the-box components from Sharepoint? Or was it a heavily customized solution that Lockheed developed?
Hope to keep hearing from you...
Sorry I took so long to respond - more work than learning and reading unfortunately. Lockheed's Portal solution was not heavily customized. When I questioned them on the customization, they related...
ReplyDeleteThey did create some wizards to launch new Sharepoint sites.
They kept all the Sharepoint sites top level (no sub-sites).
They used Google as the search appliance.
That's about it, although I will say they had some navigation elements (tip-downs in the side-bar if I remember), that I had not seen before.
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