tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post8814725337598298850..comments2024-02-28T10:15:50.335+02:00Comments on Lotus Evangelist: Connections vs. QuickrKeith Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107190540208956954noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-16905549043996984252011-02-04T18:26:08.985+02:002011-02-04T18:26:08.985+02:00@roii2, your question has multiple levels.
1) Quic...@roii2, your question has multiple levels.<br />1) Quickr is a team/project oriented solution, connections is a corporate wide solution. Both of course work with people outside the org as well easily enough.<br />2) Websphere is the base for Q for J and Connections and the future is these 2 will merge, Quickr for Domino will stay as it is.<br />But IBM does what it does and watch this space from them over the next few weeks.Keith Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107190540208956954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-52741328365602312252011-02-02T23:42:13.427+02:002011-02-02T23:42:13.427+02:00This is a novice comment from an outsider who just...This is a novice comment from an outsider who just searched for why in the world does IBM confuse the user copmmunity with two partly overlapping solutions? Why do they both exist? Why not combine them into one social collaborative platform. Is part of the answer here that Big IBM still has multiple worlds and the WebSphere team and Domino team compete and create overlapping solutions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-26628638747033010282010-10-08T04:05:28.614+02:002010-10-08T04:05:28.614+02:00I had a VERY late return last night and was on sit...I had a VERY late return last night and was on site all day at a client, but will comment or make a new post to discuss the last few comments given size and scope.Keith Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107190540208956954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-79264518302651880302010-10-07T16:29:28.927+02:002010-10-07T16:29:28.927+02:00This is a great blog - but somehow I get the feeli...This is a great blog - but somehow I get the feeling that this piece belongs in the middle (if not towards the end) of the discussion of difference/similarities of the two products.<br /><br />If the question is when to use Quickr vs. Connections - the answer should be fairly simple - Team vs. Social. Unfortunately I think the question when posed is often times misleading (and definitely shortsighted in most cases) - don't pick a product - first define what business problem you are trying to target and solve. Once that is defined, the products you bring to bear to help your organization are just an exercise. <br /><br />You did a great job pointing out some of the differences between Quickr and Connections - but I think, at least for now, both have their place in a deployment as they are targeted at solving different problems. Connections I would think is more disruptive in nature - disruptive in a good and excellent way - but one that requires a long term plan of how you nurture openness within the organization. It's not just simply about letting users find each other and answer question quickly - its the collaborations and relationships that this will build that have to be protected and fostered. Quickr on the other hand is a pure team play - every organization needs this - even a social product needs this - that is why facebook has groups, and connections has communities. The problem of course is when all of us start looking at one tool and saying 'if only it could do the next 10 things that my other tool did' then I would have to manage only 1 thing, or sell only 1 thing. Yes its neat and tidy from a presentation perspective but...<br /><br />I may not be doing a great job here at getting my point across, and this comment may just come across as a non-answer. But my bottom line point might be - don't try to force fit 1 product into doing things it does not (yet - and may not ever) do. Comparing products by feature/function leads to a bunch of checkmarks and x's but that's it - does not give you a sense of the whole story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-79864449425656527352010-10-07T10:24:41.000+02:002010-10-07T10:24:41.000+02:00Nice post. Within my company I took the perhaps ov...Nice post. Within my company I took the perhaps over-simplistic view that Connections was inside the firewall collaboration and QuickR outside. We have a successful Connections implementation which replaced our intranet front-end but I wouldn't want any external people (e.g. clients or anonymous) seeing that content. Now we have the desire to bring in some external users into the party in a controlled way (e.g. per project) so I'd planned to deploy quickr for an external access point and use the connections plugins with a community so internal people can still see updates from one place. Dunno if that'll work but was an idea.<br />The recent LotusLive improvements though gives more food for thought as it's tempting to ditch our own connections environment (we're a small company) and go with the cloud option instead as it already has a neat way to invite external people in. It would need to catch up on functionality first though before it's a viable option (e.g. blogs & wiki's) but I'm sure that'll happen one day.<br />Choices choices.Martin Rolph (Oval)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16994928346916960766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-73639056606486945722010-10-07T10:12:27.741+02:002010-10-07T10:12:27.741+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Martin Rolph (Oval)https://www.blogger.com/profile/16994928346916960766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-77569433571743732902010-10-07T01:30:56.756+02:002010-10-07T01:30:56.756+02:00@Luis, I edited it as you are correct, Connections...@Luis, I edited it as you are correct, Connections on it's own is Websphere.Keith Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107190540208956954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-51675712617630645132010-10-06T23:53:27.565+02:002010-10-06T23:53:27.565+02:00Why do you say that Connections "mostly"...Why do you say that Connections "mostly" runs on WebSphere? Connections only runs on WebSphere and does not require Domino. Is that what you were getting at?Luis Benitezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17548529757291454921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-44057806483687016832010-10-06T16:53:19.846+02:002010-10-06T16:53:19.846+02:00Thanks Albert. I may end up making this post a mor...Thanks Albert. I may end up making this post a more permanent one as updates come from various sources.Keith Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11107190540208956954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8994561579739999989.post-3361878897519301422010-10-06T15:56:57.778+02:002010-10-06T15:56:57.778+02:00Great post!Great post!Albert Buendiahttp://www.slug.esnoreply@blogger.com