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The Moment We’ve Been Waiting for: HCL’s Global Launch of Domino v11, Connections 6.5, and Sametime v11.

3. Dezember 2019 Posted by Richard Jefts

Are you ready to join us? The moment we have all been waiting for is here: The global launch of the newest versions of Domino, Connections, and Sametime. Domino v11 catapults us into the next generation of app dev. Connections 6.5 drives user adoption and builds a strong foundation for our future releases. Sametime v11 has a new, sleeker user experience.

But this is about more than just product releases. This launch represents a major milestone in HCL’s commitment to our customers and to modernizing and innovating a whole portfolio.

The excitement is building around the world. We are broadcasting live from Tokyo today, December 4, and thousands of customers, technologists, leaders, developers, and admins have signed up to participate from all around the world. From India to Arizona, we have almost 50 Business Partners hosting viewing parties of this launch, at company headquarters, conference centers, and even karaoke bars, making this launch one for the record books.

Our team has made significant technological advancements for these products. We are proud to announce:

Domino v11 builds on our mission: Apps that run your business:

  • Domino apps go mobile: HCL Nomad makes your existing apps available on Apple iPhone and iPad, Android and Chrome OS tablets with minimal effort
  • Domino apps get low-code development: HCL Domino Volt provides a new low-code development paradigm to build new Domino apps 60-70% faster and makes it easy to develop powerful new secure applications without any specialized skills rapidly
  • Domino apps integrate and synchronize: HCL Domino v11 is the most open version of the platform yet, with active directory synching to simplify integration with Microsoft Office 365 and enable enterprises to more fully leverage Domino with other tools and applications across their business

Connections 6.5 has powerful new features to drive adoption and builds a foundation for future releases:

  • Bring your community with you. Connections Sidebar, an always-on dashboard connects your users to Connections from anywhere in your IT environment
  • Grow your communities faster with Connections Touchpoint, an onboarding wizard that connects new employees to the communities and content they need
  • Do more with Kudos Activities Plus — rapid, agile project management built for every employee

Sametime v11 delivers secure conversations across every device:

  • Sametime has a new, intuitive user experience that works the way your users do
  • Built with the latest tech — now supported on Docker with the Sametime proxy running on Tomcat
  • Lower TCO than ever, with a simplified architecture and easier administration

These releases deliver on our commitment to our customers — to continue unlocking new value by relentlessly innovating and modernizing. This is another major delivery towards our multi-year charter for these products. We are thrilled to be taking this journey with you. And we can’t wait to hear what you think.

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Digital Solutions Cloud Strategy Update

17. September 2019 Posted by Richard Jefts

At HCL, we take our customers’ needs and concerns very seriously. Since July, when we made the End of Service announcement of Connections Cloud, we have worked closely with customers and partners around the world to understand their needs, and how HCL can best position them for success now and in the future. We have heard that customers want choice, security, innovation, and continuity for their business. What follows is an update on our progress and some expectations as we move forward.

Cloud destinations

Customers have shared with us the desire to keep their data local to them, whether to meet industry security policies or local data residency requirements. To address this desire, HCL has a core set of geo-based partners that we believe are well-poised to deliver cloud services to our customers. This allows HCL to focus on world-class software development and increasing the velocity at which we bring a new capability to market, while the local business partners you know and trust in your local markets deliver the cloud hosting options you need.

In the next month, HCL will announce a set of Managed Service Providers (MSP) called HCL Cloud Hosting Partners.  These organizations have been working with us hand-in-hand to build:

  1. Private cloud services for Mail, Applications, Connections, and Sametime, and
  2. A multi-tenant public cloud offering for Connections, Engagement Center, and Sametime Chat

For clients of Domino Apps on Cloud, we are working on a similar private-cloud HCL offering for launch later this year using the latest Domino V11 release and containerization best practices. More information will be provided on the PaaS vendors supported, pricing and the steps to migrate.

Returning to on-premises delivery
At HCL, we want to provide you with the options that work best for you.  As an alternative to the cloud offerings stated above, SCN, Verse, and Connections clients may revert to any appropriate earlier non-expiring licensing for on-premises or private cloud, by renewing Subscription & Support without penalty, if their subscription has remained current. Here is a recent blog on the topic.

Please contact your Business Partner or HCL sales representative if you have questions or would like more information on altering your existing license agreement accordingly.

Data migration
We are currently in the process of exploring multiple options for data migration so that cloud customers can right-size the approach that best suits their data size and destination. Naturally, the technical solution for Mail versus Connections will differ, but our common goal is to help ensure your data migration goes as smoothly as possible for all the products you are using.  For details about the data migration process itself, please see the FAQ below.

Our intention is to provide a streamlined process by which customers can request offboarding from the existing Connections Cloud instance to the new HCL Managed Service Provider (MSP) of their choice. At a high level, the process will flow like this:

Customer will contact SaaSHCL@us.ibm.com and inform them of the vendor they’ve selected, specifying the offerings included in this shift:
E.g. Selected Vendor = Partner A, to host Mail on Private Cloud, Sametime Chat, and Connections on public cloud

  1. Customer or partner completes the setup of Domino replication to export mail content. HCL will coordinate with the offboarding coordinator and MSPs on Connections content extraction
  2. MSP will complete the process of validating the data shift has occurred as planned
  3. The customer continues to work leveraging new architecture

I realize our customers want much more information.  We wanted to share the approach we’re working to take from concept to execution now, and plan to continue to share more details in the coming weeks.

On October 30, at 10 AM EDT, we hosted a webcast where we introduced our cloud hosting partners and more details about the data migration process. Please register here to watch this webcast. In the meantime, feel free to access our updated FAQ document below or via the HCL support portal for further details on questions you may have. 

At HCL, we value your partnership, and we will continue to provide regular communications into our direction and progress. If you have any more questions, please reach out to your HCL sales representative. I look forward to sharing more with you next month.  

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Deutsches IBM Collaboration Solutions Team ist jetzt HCL: Alles Gute an Kunden, Geschäftspartner und meine jetzt ehemaligen Kollegen!

1. September 2019 Posted by Stefan Pfeiffer

Heute ist ein Stichtag für meine ehemaligen Kollegen. Tom Zeizel und viele seiner Mitarbeiter sind nun offiziell Mitarbeiter des indischen IT-Unternehmens HCL! Ich wünsche Tom, Claudia, Peter, Erik, Jörg und vielen anderen Kolleginnen und Kollegenriesigen Erfolg und viel Spaß bei der neuen Firma im quasi alten Job aber mit neuem Drive.

Über den Verkauf der nun ehemaligen IBM Collaboration-Produkte an HCL habe ich ja hier im Blog ausführlich berichtet, zuletzt von der DNUG Konferenz aus Essen. Schließlich war ich ja in den nun 12 Jahren einen guten Teil der Zeit für deren Vermarktung in Deutschland und Europa zuständig, wie man hier im Blog ja auch nachlesen kann. Und natürlich drücke ich nicht nur meinen nun ehemaligen Kollegen, sondern vor allem auch Kunden und Geschäftspartnern alle Daumen, dass es voran geht.

HCL hat sich in ja in den vergangenen Monaten bei Leibe nicht dumm angestellt und sich im Besonderen gegenüber Kunden klar und deutlich positioniert. Hier einige Kernzitate aus dem heutigen Blogbeitrag von Tom Zeizel:

Die Zeit der viel zu knappen Investitionen und der verschleppten Auslieferungstermine ist vorbei. … HCL hat das Budget und will und wird wachsen. Auch langfristig. …

„Customer Relationship beyond the Contract!“. Und das merkt man überall – sehr positiv! Also nicht mehr der Klassiker „verkaufen und dann weg und nie wieder gesehen“.  Vertriebler haben Ziele, die sie auf langfristige Verbindungen trimmen. …

Heute ist HCL Software vom Stand weg schon #20 am weltweiten Software-Markt. Und wir haben die Top 10 fest im Blick!

über Tom Zeizels Blog: Wir sind HCL !!! – DNUG

Einfach den kompletten Beitrag lesen. Mir manchmal etwas zu viel rosa Farbe vom heiligen Geistschreiber, aber die Zukunft wird bestimmt besser.

Und nochmals alle Gute! Ich werde die Entwicklung mit sehr viel Sympathie begleiten.

(Stefan Pfeiffer)

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Licensing Update For Cloud Customers – Connections, SCN/Verse and DAC

5. August 2019 Posted by Francois Nasser

On July 16, 2019, HCL announced the End of Marketing/End of Service of Connections Cloud and Domino Apps on Cloud (DAC) with services ending July 16, 2020. As part of this announcement, Richard Jefts, GM and VP of Digital Solutions shared our cloud strategy moving forward.

Core to HCL’s philosophy is transparency, simplicity and commitment to a relationship beyond the contract. We intend to apply these principles to our licensing strategy to smoothly transition customers into the appropriate license terms in line with their actual use of our products and services. Our licensing transition will ensure that customers continue to have the entitlements that they have been using under the Dual Entitlement part numbers on-premises while maintaining the flexibility of term licensing and user counts instead of PVU counts. This will ensure that customers continue to take advantage of the vast investments HCL is making in Domino, Verse on Premises, Notes, Connections, Docs and Sametime.
 
The table below depicts current entitlements made available with the Dual Entitlement part numbers.

HCL customers who are currently licensed under part numbers D1HYBLL, D1HY8LL, D1HY5LL or D1HY2LL will be transitioned as follows at renewal time:
 
Customers deployed on the cloud:

  1. Will be able to renew as well as additional purchase users under the DE licensing model from IBM
  2. Term of the renewal will end on July 16, 2020, coinciding with the EOS date
  3. On or before July 16, 2020, customers will be able to transition to the new below on-premises part numbers

 
Customer not deployed on the cloud:

  1. Will be renewed on a new term, on-premises licenses that will provide like for like entitlements at the same price of a Dual Entitlement renewal with HCL

Dual Entitlement to on-premises part number mapping:

Below is the mapping that will be used for customers transitioning from Dual Entitlement to on-premises licensing. The mapping ensures that customer will continue to have entitlements to the same capabilities they have with their Dual Entitlement part numbers. Customers currently under D1HYBLL and D1HY8LL will also receive additional on-premises entitlements highlighted in yellow below under part number TN100231.

The mapped-to part numbers are Monthly Licenses including Entitlement, Subscription & Support like the originating Dual Entitlement part numbers.

If you have any questions, our global team of product specialists are ready to assist you. We are excited about the future of our Digital Solutions portfolio, and we are enthusiastic about sharing our bright future with you.

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Update on HCL Acquisition of IBM Collaboration Portfolio

16. Juli 2019 Posted by Richard Jefts

HCL is pleased to have completed the acquisition of IBM’s Collaboration offerings, fulfilling a key step in building a robust Digital Solutions portfolio.  We are excited about the future. Our goal is to provide our customers with a better-connected business by providing integration, personalization, and openness. By doing so, we will better connect the elements of your business, and help you harness the power of your business outcomes, data and people for a richer Digital Enterprise. You can read the press release here.

In the weeks ahead, HCL will share our vision for the Digital Solutions portfolio, and the four product pillars – Domino, Connections, Digital Experience and Sametime. Achieving that vision requires continued technology decisions and adjustments to align the portfolio strategy. 
 
At HCL, we know cloud, and on-premises, are both important delivery options for our customers today, and they each remain pillars of our foundation for the future.   While the IBM approach to delivering the Collaboration portfolio via IBM SoftLayer has many great elements, the HCL vision calls for a roadmap that delivers increased flexibility, ability to integrate across multiple cloud services, and an ongoing product velocity and innovation.  
 
By taking a modern approach, HCL can deliver results and business outcomes that are critical to your organization – that can scale to meet our customers’ demands as your businesses evolve. Consequently, we’d like to expand upon the way our customers can enjoy our Digital Solutions by providing our customers with your choice of the cloud:

  • HCL Cloud – An agnostic SaaS platform that can leverage best in class Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings while creating an open, flexible service that integrates with industry-leading technologies. 
  • Private Cloud – Continuing with our commitment to on-premises, HCL will optimize its deployment strategy to reduce customers’ total cost of ownership and better enable adoption of our latest and greatest software releases via continuous delivery. Specifically, for Connections, Sametime, and Domino deployed for both mail and applications.  
  • Partner-led Cloud – Our business partners are masters of deployment, support, and enablement of the Connections Collaboration portfolio.  By enabling them to deploy, provision, and support their own cloud local to you, our customers will have new opportunities to leverage a cloud deployment while keeping their data close and seeking geo and industry-specific certifications that matter to their businesses, specifically, for Connections, Sametime and Domino.  

This has implications for our existing cloud customers. As is documented at the End of Marketing/End of Service announcement on HCL.com, effective immediately, HCL will no longer sell new subscriptions to Connections Cloud and Domino Apps on Cloud (DAC) services. Accordingly, the services will end on July 16, 2020.  
 
Naturally, existing customers may purchase additional seats as needed to remain compliant with their license agreements for the remainder of the period of service.

  • The Connections Cloud offerings include SmartCloud Notes & Verse, Connections, Engagement Center, Docs, and Sametime.
  • HCL will continue to maintain the current Connections Cloud environment to the standards to which you have contracted until that end of service date.  There will be no further enhancements made during this period, with the exception of critical fixes and security updates.

 For the Domino portfolio, specifically:
 
Based on our analysis of the market, mail will continue to be a core capability of the Domino platform for the foreseeable future. However, to drive greater innovation and velocity across all deployment options, HCL has no plans to provide a like for like replacement for Smart Cloud Notes or Verse on Cloud. Instead, clients will be invited to transition to their own private cloud, or partner-led cloud solution using the latest release of Domino and Verse on-premises. 
 
In summary:
HCL is excited about the future of the Digital Solutions portfolio for both on-premises and cloud. In the coming weeks and months, you will learn more about our vision and strategy, which will position us to greater product velocity and innovation.
 
We are bringing you this message today because we want to be transparent and open with our customers, HCL Masters and business partners.  We plan to provide you with advice on appropriate migration strategies to the new HCLapproach we’ve just discussed or back to an on-premises deployment.
 
HCL has a wealth of experience in outsourcing, partnering and services led solutions where we work with our clients to ensure least disruptive outcomes as they wish to transition from their use of an IBM Cloud offering to our modern HCL stack.  We are confident that this investment in our future will magnify the success of our customers.
 
At HCL, we value your business, and we know you will have questions. We want to hear from you, so please reach out to us or contact your HCL sales representative with your questions. 

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DNUG 2019-04-09 16:21:23

9. April 2019 Posted by Peter Schütt, IBM

IBM Connections ist nicht nur einfach “ein Facebook für Unternehmen“. Artikel und Fotos von Gastautor Daniel Luginbühl, Belsoft IBM Connections gibt es seit 2007 – mehr als 12 Jahre. Auch wenn sich über die Jahre und auch in den letzten Quartalen sehr viel geändert – verbessert – hat, so ist es doch an der Zeit […]

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Tom Zeizels Blog: Wie Connections immer besser wird

8. März 2019 Posted by Thomas Zeizel, IBM

Tom Zeizels Blog: Wie Connections immer besser wird IBM Connections ist 2007 erstmals auf den Markt gekommen und hat sich schnell als weltweit führendes Social Business Tool etabliert. Über die Jahre ist allerdings viel passiert: So ist der Hype um den Begriff „social“ deutlich abgeflaut und neue Technologien haben den Markt an vielen Stellen verändert. […]

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Tom Zeizels Blog – Think 2019: So viel Neues zu Collaboration Lösungen …

23. Februar 2019 Posted by Thomas Zeizel, IBM

Tom Zeizels Blog – THINK 2019: So viel Neues zu Collaboration Lösungen … Auf der in der vorletzten Woche gelaufenen IBM THINK 2019 gab es zur Überraschung Vieler auch im Bereich Collaboration Services unerwartet viele Neuigkeiten – und das trotz der BAU („Business as usual“) Situation*, die IBM und HCL im Moment eine gewisse Zurückhaltung […]

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THINK 2019 ICS Update Veranstaltungen überall vor Ort

21. Februar 2019 Posted by Peter Schütt, IBM

THINK 2019 ICS Update Veranstaltungen überall vor Ort Wie in jedem Jahr gibt es nach der IBM THINK eine ganze Reihe von Update/Nachlese-Veranstaltungen vor Ort über ganz D-A-CH verteilt, überwiegend von Partnern, aber teilweise auch von der IBM organisiert. Hier die uns bekannte Liste, die wahrscheinlich nicht ganz vollständig ist und ergänzt wird, wenn weitere […]

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THINK 2019 ICS Update – das Gespräch

19. Februar 2019 Posted by Peter Schütt, IBM

THINK 2019 ICS Update – das Gespräch Wie in jedem Jahr haben Jens-Uwe Fimmen und ich auch 2019 wieder ein  Gespräch live auf der THINK 2019 aufgenommen. Wie immer wirklich live, also ungescripted, dynamisch und spontan, nur ein ganz klein bisschen gekürzt. Dort sprechen wir alles an, was uns in den vielen Präsentationen zu IBM […]

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Tom Zeizels Blog: IBM Collaboration Solutions – nach der THINK ist vor einer großen Zukunft!

15. Februar 2019 Posted by Thomas Zeizel, IBM

Tom Zeizels Blog: IBM Collaboration Solutions – nach der THINK ist vor einer großen Zukunft! Die IBM Think 2019 in San Francisco neigt sich dem Ende zu. Ich selbst konnte leider nicht dort sein. Dennoch habe ich in Abstimmung mit meinem Team sehr genau beobachtet, was dort passiert. Und manchmal hilft der Blick aus der […]

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IBM Collaboration Solutions auf der THINK 2019 – The Beat goes on!

13. Februar 2019 Posted by Peter Schütt, IBM

IBM Collaboration Solutions auf der THINK 2019 – The Beat goes on! Einmal im Jahr ist IBM Hausmesse. Diesmal in San Francisco. Und die Stadt sieht in diesen Tagen etwas anders aus als sonst. Überall IBM. Eine ganze Straße (4th Street) ist gesperrt und zur Informations- und auch Party-Meile erklärt. Aber es ist schon eine […]

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Tom Zeizels Blog: „Wir sind die Guten!“

1. Februar 2019 Posted by Thomas Zeizel, IBM

Tom Zeizels Blog: „Wir sind die Guten!“ Kaufentscheidungen finden am Markt statt. Der Markt ist aber nichts objektives. Hier spielen Informationen, aber auch Fake News rein. Bauchgefühle treffen auf Meinungen. Letztlich ist eine Kaufentscheidung eine Frage des Vertrauens, oft mehr noch als die des Preises. Eine kleine Betrachtung:  Der Markt ist einer der ältesten Erfindungen […]

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Tom Zeizels Blog: Viele Wenig machen ein Viel – ICS Updates im Januar.

19. Januar 2019 Posted by Thomas Zeizel, IBM

Tom Zeizels Blog: Viele Wenig machen ein Viel – ICS Updates im Januar. Es sind immer spannende Tage, so im Januar. Es passiert immer ganz viel. Damit meine ich jetzt nicht die Kollegen, die mit viel Euphorie bei der großen spanischen Lotterie mitgemacht haben und nun nichts gewonnen haben, sondern vielleicht schon eher unseren dänischen […]

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