Announcing IBM Connections Premier and IBM Connections Compliance -- Now Available

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As announced in the IBM Social Software blog, yesterday IBM released IBM Connections Premier, the latest offering built on top of IBM Connections, the leading business social collaboration platform.  IBM Connections Premier combines engaging employee collaboration applications and compliance discovery solutions, including granular policy controls for content inspection, logging and archiving of social and instant messaging communications. With IBM Connections Premier integrated collaboration and compliance discovery solutions, your organization can protect your brand and reputation, meeting corporate, legal or governance requirements, and engage and enable your entire workforce.

IBM Connections Premier offers:

• Ability to enforce acceptable use policies that lets your organization define policies at global, group or user levels. Monitor for and address the use of inappropriate or abusive language and objectionable actions.
• Protection of your brand and reputation with near real-time monitoring and alerts. Detect, flag and block IMs and file transfers based on key words, phrases and regular expressions.
• Reduction of legal costs through fast and simple content review and retrieval.
• Enhanced return on investment (ROI) by extending the life of existing archive and e-discovery investments. Tag, export and archive content in its original format to e-discovery or enterprise content management platforms.

Check out this video which walks through a scenario to highlight the importance of secure collaboration and empowering confidence throughout the organization to accelerate innovation while keeping information safe:



To learn more, check out the announcement letter.

Demo: Measure the Success of IBM Connections with Community Metrics

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One of the important aspects of a social business platform such as IBM Connections Cloud is to monitor the health and usage of communities / team sites. IBM Connections provides a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative metrics that help measure the business value of IBM Connections in your organization.Metrics in IBM Connections allows community managers or System Admins view information on how users are participating on Connections, the content in Connections, and how people are visiting different portions of the product.

Community owners or managers need the ability to monitor the adoption and participation in their community. The Community Metrics component lets owners see metrics based on users, participation within the community, and content in the community. Additionally there are metrics for each application within a community under ‘All Metrics.

Here's a quick 3 minute demo that I created so you can see how it works.

Equivalent functionality is available for the org admins to see metrics at the global level across all communities deployed in the system.

To learn more or to start a trial, go to http://ibmcloud.com/social

VideoBio Adds Quick Video Sharing to IBM Connections

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I always like to highlight when developers and partners extend our IBM Connections Cloud platform.
Today I wanted to highlight VideoBio who have built a very nice solution to allow users to quickly share video messages with others.

So how does it work? First, you can go to your profile, or someone else's profile and click on the VideoBio button.

After recording the demo, it's automatically shared with your IBM Connections network and you can optionally choose to share via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more.!

Check out the demo:



To learn more, go here.

What's New and Coming in IBM Connections and IBM Docs for Q2 2016

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Hours ago, IBM just made another update to IBM Connections Cloud.

To start off, community managers and administrators have access to even more metrics.  If you are an organization administrator, you can easily see how your user base is getting business value out of IBM Connections. For example, you can track Connections Cloud events such as every time that a user reads a blog entry, creates a To do item in an Activity, updates a wiki page, or follows a Community. You can drill down on one application or a particular time period. You can set filters to track how many people viewed a blog in the Customer Support Community in the last seven days, last four weeks, last quarter, or last 12 months.

Community owners can also get metrics only on the communities that they own. Track who visits the community, information shared such as comments, and participation in such activities as downloading files.

In an upcoming release this quarter IBM is also going to be releasing some significant enhancements to search.  Want to learn more and see what else is coming in the rest of Q2 for IBM Connections & IBM Docs? Then check out this deck:

What's New in IBM Connections Social Cloud - Q2 2016 from Luis Benitez

And there's more that was released if you are using IBM Verse. Check out the full list of what's new in IBM Connections Cloud. IBM Connections is ready to transform your organization, anywhere in the world. And since today is Monday, I figured I would leave you with this.



If you still haven't seen IBM Connections, start your free trial here.

ICYMI: The XPages Runtime is Now Available in IBM Bluemix

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Earlier this year, we had announced the availability of the XPages runtime as beta in IBM Bluemix. Then at IBM Connect, XPages on Bluemix was featured during the keynote where a quick app was built integrated with Watson to quickly tag / categorize images using the Watson Image Analyzer service.

So in case you missed it, earlier this week, the XPages runtime for IBM Bluemix went from Beta to full release, generally available.

This allows developers already familiar with the XPages framework to leverage the power of IBM Bluemix to quickly build powerful apps in the cloud, possibly integrated with other Bluemix services (like Watson). For added security, you can connect to your existing user directory for ID management.

It's now been a couple of days and it's been great to see the reaction over Twitter and other social channels.




If you still haven't seen XPages, To help get you up to speed on developing XPages applications on Bluemix, here is a list of videos we have published in the past.

• XPages has landed
• Boilerplate tutorial
• Designer tooling
• XPages Service
• Node.js + REST + service
• Hybrid applications

Ready to get started? Check out how to build apps with XPages for Bluemix. Can't wait to see the apps that you build!