Lotusphere Blogger Panel (or how fast can I type)
Blogger panel
Mike Rhodin, Alistair Rennie, Bob Picciano
"3 generations of Lotus"
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Mike Rhodin, Alistair Rennie, Bob Picciano
"3 generations of Lotus"
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Mitch: how are you going to get there with
Vulcan?
Alistair: Vulcan is not a product. It's a roadmap. It's incremental. In some ways, it's not that ground breaking or revolutionary. It's a summary of things that we're already doing with our portfolio.
"It will live and die by how well we put connections & APIs to enable developers to work with that environment."
John: Competitive question, how do you get these big service orgs to support Lotus that are only supporting other platforms?
Bob Picciano: in many instances, our error is being there too late. But we also have to shift the dialog to value. "there's transformative capability that comes through our portfolio." The dialog with Panasonic was about how do they integrate their brands, not the technology alone. That's why we won. It wasn't about just email.
Mike Rhodin: Every outsourcing company in 2009 had their customers come and say they want to renegotiate. "Lotus is the lowest cost infrastructure to run. Some of it is market awareness, and some of it is getting facts"
Sean Poulley: Price per seat is pretty high with outsourcing companies.
John: Our request this year is to make sure that the Executive level message is getting throughout the organization
Jack Dausman: The business partner community is thinning quite a bit. What's going to happen to grow the partner community with this great new portfolio?
Bob: Our partner relationships are up 20% this year. Foundations is attracting partners. LotusLive is attracting partners.
Alistair: The cloud is opportunity. Moving to the cloud isn't just pointing your employees to a new URL, there's lots of integration necessary. With Xpages, there's a lot of new opportunities. You're not going in selling Notes & Domino and religion; you're selling a solution.
Bob: Partners are going to focus where they believe there's going to be opportunity in the market. Now that we've invested heavily in making sure we're visible, we think there will be a lot more opportunity.
Mike: Timing is everything. Notes 8 was the most expensive version of Notes & Domino ever built, and if we'd put the pedal down [on marketing] before Notes 8 came out, we would have been laughed out.
Bob: Yeah, exactly.
Mike: We took a couple of wrong turns in the past, but if you're going to be an innovator, you're going to go down the wrong alley once in a while.
Unknown: Who's the demographic that attends this conference? Is it partners or customers? This is my first time here.
Alistair: We just came out of a room with 26 CIOs from Fortune 100 companies. It's turning into an executive meeting as well.
Mike: All of the CIOs I talk to have the same business problem: they've squeezed all the value our of cost cutting. They all have their eye on people's productivity. Whether they call it collaboration, that's what they want.
Alex Williams: In some respects, "social" is a no-no word for CIOs
All Execs: no, not anymore.
Bob: When I first came in, when I'd talk about this stuff, the executives thought they were going to see video of a dog watching television. Now they talk about how it will help them tame so many uncontrolled containers.
Sean: Some CIOs still think they control their users.
(general conversation about how real-time has enabled large corporation to communicate more effectively with channels, specifically in insurance.)
Stuart: You made a lot of great mobile announcements. Is this a sign that you're not waiting for phone manufacturers & carriers to support your product?
Mike: Not at all. Look at all the Blackberry apps that they developed.
Ed: Nokia is putting Traveler on a bunch of phones.
Alistair: I think Android's going to be a special case. Apple has a very specific way they work, and we handled that very carefully. Android, we think we need to write our own client to give us a consistent experience. What it's really an expression of is our absolute commitment to be in the mobile space.
Andrew: Traveler has been a huge win this year. Improving the mood of the community, including users, is really important. And that's what this year has been about.
Mitch: What are you going to do with Traveler to support other applications like Connections?
John: When will Traveler support apps?
Alistair: Traveler is a sync protocol it's not really a app delivery medium. (
Jack: What do you see as the significances of having 3 GMs here?
Mike: When I was announced for having responsibliity for Lotus, I couldnh't think of a better way to reconnect than coming to Lotusphere.
Alistair: I think what Lotus does is pretty predictable. Putting the group together wasn' something we did as anything but natural
Bob: there's real consistent in point of view, direction, promise and accountability. Mike built an amazing team and left an incredible portfolio for us to build upon. And Alistair's surrounded by a great time and he's going to continue to make great decisions."
(Note: this was typed as fast as I possibly could.... but no court stenographer would ever have a chance at keeping up with the pace of that room, so I tried to distill questions and answers to the best representation I could manage)
Alistair: Vulcan is not a product. It's a roadmap. It's incremental. In some ways, it's not that ground breaking or revolutionary. It's a summary of things that we're already doing with our portfolio.
"It will live and die by how well we put connections & APIs to enable developers to work with that environment."
John: Competitive question, how do you get these big service orgs to support Lotus that are only supporting other platforms?
Bob Picciano: in many instances, our error is being there too late. But we also have to shift the dialog to value. "there's transformative capability that comes through our portfolio." The dialog with Panasonic was about how do they integrate their brands, not the technology alone. That's why we won. It wasn't about just email.
Mike Rhodin: Every outsourcing company in 2009 had their customers come and say they want to renegotiate. "Lotus is the lowest cost infrastructure to run. Some of it is market awareness, and some of it is getting facts"
Sean Poulley: Price per seat is pretty high with outsourcing companies.
John: Our request this year is to make sure that the Executive level message is getting throughout the organization
Jack Dausman: The business partner community is thinning quite a bit. What's going to happen to grow the partner community with this great new portfolio?
Bob: Our partner relationships are up 20% this year. Foundations is attracting partners. LotusLive is attracting partners.
Alistair: The cloud is opportunity. Moving to the cloud isn't just pointing your employees to a new URL, there's lots of integration necessary. With Xpages, there's a lot of new opportunities. You're not going in selling Notes & Domino and religion; you're selling a solution.
Bob: Partners are going to focus where they believe there's going to be opportunity in the market. Now that we've invested heavily in making sure we're visible, we think there will be a lot more opportunity.
Mike: Timing is everything. Notes 8 was the most expensive version of Notes & Domino ever built, and if we'd put the pedal down [on marketing] before Notes 8 came out, we would have been laughed out.
Bob: Yeah, exactly.
Mike: We took a couple of wrong turns in the past, but if you're going to be an innovator, you're going to go down the wrong alley once in a while.
Unknown: Who's the demographic that attends this conference? Is it partners or customers? This is my first time here.
Alistair: We just came out of a room with 26 CIOs from Fortune 100 companies. It's turning into an executive meeting as well.
Mike: All of the CIOs I talk to have the same business problem: they've squeezed all the value our of cost cutting. They all have their eye on people's productivity. Whether they call it collaboration, that's what they want.
Alex Williams: In some respects, "social" is a no-no word for CIOs
All Execs: no, not anymore.
Bob: When I first came in, when I'd talk about this stuff, the executives thought they were going to see video of a dog watching television. Now they talk about how it will help them tame so many uncontrolled containers.
Sean: Some CIOs still think they control their users.
(general conversation about how real-time has enabled large corporation to communicate more effectively with channels, specifically in insurance.)
Stuart: You made a lot of great mobile announcements. Is this a sign that you're not waiting for phone manufacturers & carriers to support your product?
Mike: Not at all. Look at all the Blackberry apps that they developed.
Ed: Nokia is putting Traveler on a bunch of phones.
Alistair: I think Android's going to be a special case. Apple has a very specific way they work, and we handled that very carefully. Android, we think we need to write our own client to give us a consistent experience. What it's really an expression of is our absolute commitment to be in the mobile space.
Andrew: Traveler has been a huge win this year. Improving the mood of the community, including users, is really important. And that's what this year has been about.
Mitch: What are you going to do with Traveler to support other applications like Connections?
John: When will Traveler support apps?
Alistair: Traveler is a sync protocol it's not really a app delivery medium. (
Jack: What do you see as the significances of having 3 GMs here?
Mike: When I was announced for having responsibliity for Lotus, I couldnh't think of a better way to reconnect than coming to Lotusphere.
Alistair: I think what Lotus does is pretty predictable. Putting the group together wasn' something we did as anything but natural
Bob: there's real consistent in point of view, direction, promise and accountability. Mike built an amazing team and left an incredible portfolio for us to build upon. And Alistair's surrounded by a great time and he's going to continue to make great decisions."
(Note: this was typed as fast as I possibly could.... but no court stenographer would ever have a chance at keeping up with the pace of that room, so I tried to distill questions and answers to the best representation I could manage)
