Wednesday, September 19, 2007

IBM Lotus Connections - Articles

Enhancing productivity with social computing
Get an overview of IBM Lotus Connections and its five features: Profiles, Communities, Blogs, Dogear, and Activities. The technical requirements for the product are included along with simple ways to extend the services outside the product.

Deploying IBM Lotus Connections series:

Part1: Planning and architecture considerations
Focuses on planning and architecture considerations to ensure that your deployment is built properly. Learn from an expert on recommended planning and architecture practices.


Part2: Post-installation tuning
Focuses on post-installation tuning tips to ensure that your deployment does not suffer from common performance pitfalls. Learn from an expert on recommended practices to perform after the initial installation of Lotus Connections is complete.

Part3: Maintenance
Focuses on system maintenance, backup and recovery strategies, and tips to protect your environment from unexpected data loss or corruption. This article also covers practices for policing your Lotus Connections content.

Part4: Troubleshooting
Focuses on tips for troubleshooting during installation. It describes how to diagnose an installation problem, how to recognize which components cause the problem, and how to solve the most common problems.

Part5: Branding and customization
Demonstrates how to brand and how to customize the IBM Lotus Connections user interface. Learn how to make changes to ensure that Lotus Connections has the right look and feel for your enterprise.

Part6: Integrating with other systems
Focuses on integrating IBM Lotus Connections with other systems using the Atom API. This article is intended for I/T specialists and developers and is helpful when exploring options to integrate Lotus Connections into your applications.

Part7: Application programming interface
Covers working with the Lotus Connections APIs. This article is intended for I/T specialists and developers and is helpful when building programs that use Lotus Connections data and services.