MWLUG 2013
Application Modernization: Where Consumer, Social, and Mobile Converge
John Beck, Worldwide Notes & Domino Sales, IBM
@JhnBck
John Head, Director of Enterprise Collaboration, PSC Group, LLC @johnhead
John Beck
No, I am not very talented at basketball (that's why I have a job at IBM!).
“Who am I?” I am responsible for global sales of IBM's messaging portfolio (Notes & Domino, Traveler, Mobile Connect and Protector)– Previously, I have held cloud sales, product management, development and support roles within IBM all focused on the IBM Collaboration Solutions
portfolio.
Working with Notes since R3 in 1995 and managed production Domino environment on NT Alpha (really!?!).
Recently moved my family to Wisconsin from Massachusetts (yes it is colder there).
“Why am I here?” As companies analyze their investments in messaging, they are realizing the incredible value that Domino applications have to their business and processes. They are also looking to shift that investment to new access modes and transform their end user computing environments.
Follow/contact/link to me:+1 508.414.0734twitter.com/jhnbckhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/[email protected]
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F O U N D E D I N 1 9 9 0
PSC Group, LLC is a professional
services and information technology
consulting firm that understands
technology is fundamental in the
development of business solutions.
Success is collaboration, creation and
innovation. It’s about taking what a
business does and making it better.
PSC consultants specialize in all things IBM Lotus, from infrastructure to administration to development.
From health checks to installation to find tuning your applications. Our specialty is in transforming your Notes
applications into the next generation of XPages applications. We can modernize your critical business
applications and infuse them with social and mobile functionality.
Smarter WorkforceIBM Employee Experience Suite
Kenexa Talent Management Suite
Exceptional Customer Experience
IBM Customer Experience Suite
IBM Platform for Social Business
Social NetworkingIBM Connections
IBM Notes & Domino Social Edition
IBM Sametime
Social AnalyticsIBM Social Analytics Suite
Social ContentIBM Enterprise
Content Management
Social IntegrationIBM WebSphere Portal
IBM Web Content Manager
Deployment Options
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Dedicated Private Cloud On Premises Hybrid
IBM offers a full range of industry leading capabilities to meet the requirements of any organization
IamLUG 2013
Agenda
Users are demanding modern user interfaces...
...and Domino DELIVERS!
Discussion databases Community forums Document storage and collaboration Customer relationship management Help desk and customer support Human resources
Inventory and project management Process tracking Sales force automation Product catalogs and price lists Billing systems Audit and assessment
Apps “by the numbers”:
280,000 active developers
$45m investment by IBM since 2007
10,000,000 applications in use
64,000 developers and 200 projects active in open source community
Thousands of enterprises around the globe trust their core collaborative and business applications to Notes & Domino
Today's Notes/Domino offers the easiest, fastest and richest development of Web 2.0 apps
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From this... Jacobs eLite 1.0
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To this with xPages - Jacobs eLite 2.0
Agenda
Domino is a Premiere application platform
• Claims heard about why one should move to SharePoint
– SharePoint could easily replace the Rapid Application Development feature set of Notes/Domino
– SharePoint is self service driven and therefore will need less development resources than a new Notes/Domino environment
• While in reality
– What most consider to be simple Notes client applications often require moderate to significant development effort that cannot be done with SharePoint Designer, instead requiring Visual Studio and .Net development skills
– Complex applications with business logic and workflow are not suitable for SharePoint and require .Net development and additional Microsoft products to provide the same level of capability you get in one product (Notes/Domino)
Domino Application Competitive Advantages
• Modernizing your applications for web browsers improves user experience and avoids cost– Avoids significant migration costs and development time to re-write applications
– XPages technology has allowed organizations to rapidly modernize at a significantly lower (25-40%) cost
– Faster time to value with XPages versus a re-write
– Allows end user desktop simplification by minimizing client deployment needs delivering apps via web browsers and mobile devices
• Far less expensive to transition to XPages than to rewrite– Existing business logic preserved
– XPages brings specific mobile controls at no addional cost that are not present in for competitive platforms like .NET and Force.com
– Delivers offline for rich client usage (not possible on alternate platforms)
What To Do With What You Already Have
Bring your Notes/Domino client applications to the Web with XPages!
• Preserves the investment in your current application's data and business logic while providing a modern Web 2.0 user experience
• Provides browser and mobile access and still allows you to take that application securely offline with all application logic available using the Notes rich client
• Expands the reach of your Domino applications to other IBM platforms like WebSphere Portal and IBM Connections thru iWidgets and Activity Streams
• Integrate XPages apps with Sharepoint for Create, Replace, Update, Delete (CRUD) through web services and Open Data Protocol (oData)
Agenda
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Our Partners
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PSC’s real world
experiences
with XPages
“The impact of a consumer
economy on the business
and enterprise
application space”
2013 State of the Application
• We are at an application crossroad- Email has become a commodity- Domino or Exchange or Google- Cloud or On Premises or Hybrid
Email and application platforms being broken apart- New Platforms- Smartphones are common place- Tablets are outshipping laptops
The Burning Questions – “What about the Applications?”
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What Applications are Your Users Using?
Your users are using this at home …
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What Applications are Your Users Using?
And this …
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What Applications are Your Users Using?
And this …
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Do you think they really want to use this?
Do you think they want to use this?
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Do you think they really want to use this?
Or this?
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Do you think they really want to use this?
Or this?
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Many Companies believe …
The average business person
uses applications provided to
them by their internal IT
organization.
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They are wrong.
More than 50% of business users bypass
internal applications for public tools.
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Because the internal tools are:
Too slow
Too restrictive
Not accessible at home
Not on the mobile device
Not Sexy!
End Users Expect Modern Applications
• End User expect consumer Web 2.0 Experiences at work
• End Users will find their own solutions if applications are
not updated
• Corporate IT must modernize or become irrelevant
How modern are your applications?
• PSC’s experience is that once a business application is put to use, it is rarely updated.
• The more line of business the app is, the less care it has gotten.
• Many companies using the same app since late 90s/early 2000s with NO changes.
• Have you done an internal application audit?
Documents & Discussions
40% of total apps
Based on Templates that come with Domino
Recommendation:
Move to standard platforms/apps
Update with new XPages Templates from IBM (2011)
Use third party tool(s)
SmartCloud Engage
Other Offerings
Enterprise Applications
25% of total apps
Highly transactional or huge volumes of data
Recommendation:
Rebuild on top of Enterprise Java, .NET or other technology
Business Applications
35% of total apps
Mission Critical
Organizational Unique
Heavy use of custom workflow and/or security
Recommendation:
Move to the web via XPages
Taken from PSC's Application Modernization White Paper and Presentations
Existing Domino Application Types
What is IBM XPages?
• Built in Web Library
– Dojo
• IBM customizations to speed RAD
– SSJS Libraries
– @Function language
– Extension Library toolkit
– Social Business Toolkit
– Mobile toolkit
• Java Application Server
• Uses Java Server Faces (JSF)
• Uses Modern Web Development Standards
– HTML
– CSS
• Allows developers to use
– Java
– JavaScript
What is IBM XPages? Really …
• Server task running on a Domino Server
• Inherits all of the security from Domino
– Server Access
– ACLs
– Roles
• Allows for External Web Toolkits
– CSS (EXTSJ, jQuery, BluePrint, Twitter Bootstrap, etc.)
– Java Beans
Where does IBM XPages Work?
• From a web browser
– Any browser that supports HTML5
• From a mobile device
– Supports mobile profiles for different screen sizes
• Phone
• Tablet
• From the Notes Client from the server
• From the Notes client as a replica - disconnected
XPages Advantages over Notes Development
• Allows reusable controls and toolkits
• Support for Source Code Control
– Mecurial, SVN, GIT, etc.
• OneUI Look and Feel
• Custom Theme for Consistent Corporate Branding
• Extensive Custom Code Libraries on OpenNTF.org
– 200+ open source projects specific to XPages
– 500+ code snippets
– Contests
• Numerous Free Training Sources
– Notesin9
• 200 bloggers providing free content and guidance
XPages Community
Notes Application
• Opening on Server thru
VPN
• ~ 30 to 60 seconds
• Opening Replica
• ~20 seconds
XPages Application
• Opening on Server thru
VPN
• ~ 6 to 10 seconds
• Opening Replica
• ~ 3 to 5 seconds
• Open in Web Browser
• ~ under 2 seconds
Performance of modern web applications brought to the platform*
Why XPages?
*results may vary depending on bandwidth, application, and server location
XPages is developer friendly
• Notes developers w/ web skills can transition easily
• Notes developers w/o web skills must acquire web
development skills first
• Web developers can pick up XPages with basic Domino
training
• New Hires / College Grads can pick up XPages development
with a week of training**results may vary
XPages and Java
• Domino server is just a java server
• Java beans allow for leveraging existing knowledge of Java packages. For example
– Relational Data (JDBC)
– Document generation (iText)
• Eclipse based client with Java debugger
• Write logic in Java beans and leverage via expression language
XPages and jQuery
• Most popular JavaScript library
• Use it seamlessly along side dojo which is provided on your XPage automatically
• Nearly all our project combine both dojo and jQuery
• Leverage jQuery plugins for a world of new capabilities
• REST services, which you are not required to write, provide the mechanism for disconnecting the server and client side jQuery plugins
IBM XWork Server to the Rescue
• Companies who left Notes & Domino for other email platforms are a perfect target for the IBM XWork server
• Purchase a new IBM XWork server license. No mention of
‘Lotus’ or ‘Notes’
• Focus on the apps, not how or where the system is run
• Success Story
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Samples of PSC’s
XPages Development
These are real world applications
IamLUG 2013
What most people think of Xpages …
App #6: XPages Application
PSC XPages Samples
PSC XPages Samples - iPad
PSC XPages Samples - iPhone
XPages out of the Domino 9 box
XPages with Twitter Bootstrap
PSC XPages Intranet
PSC XPages Dashboard
PSC XPages Dashboard
XPages Query Builder
Before XPages
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Transformation after XPages
Before XPages
Transformation with XPages
PSC XPages Samples
PSC XPages Samples
PSC XPages Samples
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In Summer of 2010, IBM asked PSC
to review a Notes application and
compare modernizing the
application with both
XPages and Microsoft SharePoint.
This is the result of that effort.
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Notes Client to XPages – PSC’s Process
1. Take an existing Notes Client Application
2. Catalog the Notes Client Assets
3. Create XPages Application
4. Create Custom Theme
5. Build Mobile Interface
6. Compare with SharePoint application
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Existing Notes Application
Document Workflow App
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Existing Application Details
• 1 User Form – Agreement
• 4 Dialogs
• 5 System Forms – Keywords, Lookups
• 30 User Views
• 17 System Views
• Workflow & Business Logic• 20 Agents
• 2 Script Libraries
• Export to Excel for Reporting
• User Interface Elements
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Document Workflow App
XPages Version
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Document Workflow App
XPages Version - Mobile
• Uses the OpenNTF.org
Mobile Controls
Project
• Provides Custom UI for
iPhone and other
mobile devices
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Document Workflow App
XPages User Interface Details
• Created a New XPages Interface
• Created Custom Theme with custom branding and color scheme
• Only Interface Changes• Home Page
• Document Workflow Form
• Views
• No changes to Workflow or Business Rules
• Used the XPages Mobile Controls on OpenNTF.org for iPhone interface
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Document Workflow App
XPages Development Details
• Notes:
• Custom Theme is a one time effort. Can be reused by all future XPages Applications
• Mobile Controls were created as Custom Controls that can be reused
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Comparing XPages to SharePoint
• Same Notes Client application
• Document tasks to build feature comparable
SharePoint application
• Use SharePoint development best practices
that PSC uses with our customers
• Estimate development costs
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SharePoint Development Details
• Create SharePoint Site• Create Agreement Form & Dialogs
• Create Web Parts & Reports
• Create Keyword Lookup Lists
• Build Windows Workflows (not SharePoint Designer)
• Implement Security – Groups and Building Form Filters
• Build Excel Export
• Move Data using Third-Party Tool
• Create Master Page
• Create iPhone on top of SharePoint Mobile Extension
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SharePoint Development Estimates
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SharePoint Development Estimates Notes
• PSC recommends Windows Workflow over SharePoint Workflow using SharePoint Designer due to it’s quality and support
• iPhone development would be ASP.NET development talking to SharePoint Web Services
• Security would use Active Directory Groups and function by applying Filters to parts of the Form
• Data Export using Third Party tools would include documents, field data, and attachments
• Master Page Estimate includes colors, corporate branding, logo, and simple menu changes
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Estimates Side by Side
XPages Task Hrs. SharePoint Task Hrs.
XPages User Interface 64 SharePoint Site 4
Custom Theme 16 Main Form 24
Excel Export 8 Web Parts & Reports 16
Mobile XPage 16 Windows Workflow 24
Implement Security 40
Excel Export 8
Move Data 16
Create Master Page 16
Create iPhone Interface 40
Offline ??
Total 104 Total 188
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Application Modernization in 2013
• Your users are demanding modern applications in the workplace
• Smartphones and Tablets will force you to embrace modern and consumer driven development platforms and techniques
• XPages is ready to build real-world production applications
• You don't have to migrate to get Modern and Mobile
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Application Modernization with PSC
PSC views the process of
modernizing application platforms
from a holistic, enterprise
perspective. Building from our Hub
Services, our AMC provides
extensive services in each of three
critical areas – providing our clients
with a 360o View of the process.
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PSC’s Application Modernization
Roadmap
InventoryExisting
Application Portfolio
Categorize and Prioritize
Estimate Modernization
Costs
Determine Landing Platform
Network Impact Analysis
Data Center Impact Analysis
Define Security Model on
Landing Platform
EstablishTools &
Standards
Application Transformation
Data Transformation
SunsetLegacy
Environment
Develop Support and Staffing Plan
Application Modernized!
Reduce Licensing of Legacy
Environment
Define Governance
Model
Modify Infrastructure
Establish Development Environment
Specify and Procure
Production Hardware and
Software
Analysis & Design
Prepare for a more data driven, mobile, social and dynamic future
Identify opportunities to enhance processes, workflow and security
Technical Analysis
Business Value Analysis
Cultural Change Analysis
Develop Training Plan and Materials
Train End Users on Modernized
Application
AN
ALY
ZE
MODERNIZE
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Your users will work with
applications that match the
experience they have at
home.
You have to decide if they
use your apps
or something else.
Agenda
Smarter WorkforceIBM Employee Experience Suite
Kenexa Talent Management Suite
Exceptional Customer Experience
IBM Customer Experience Suite
IBM Platform for Social Business
Social NetworkingIBM Connections
IBM Notes & Domino Social Edition
IBM Sametime
Social AnalyticsIBM Social Analytics Suite
Social ContentIBM Enterprise
Content Management
Social IntegrationIBM WebSphere Portal
IBM Web Content Manager
Deployment Options
IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Dedicated Private Cloud On Premises Hybrid
IBM offers a full range of industry leading capabilities to meet the requirements of any organization
Extend your Xpages apps to Mobile and Social
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Choice and flexibility for devices
XPages in Activity Streams
Domino + XPages = OPPORTUNITY
Let me leave you with the following:
An extensive ecosystem of skilled partners
OpenNTF
77K Registered users
670K visits in '12
221 Contributions & 132K Downloads in '12
>100K video views on YouTube
Reaching out – Stack Overflow & GitHub
OpenNTF Contests
3 contests complete; 73 contributors & 102 contributions
4th Contest underway
XPages integration with Connections
Quicktstart Domino & Connections image
Collaboration Today
Compilation of current and relevant news for IBM Collaboration Solutions
Community curated content
Community developed XPages app
REST API for embedding in your own site
Template source coming to OpenNTF soon
Next steps for Notes/Domino developers
• Learn to use XPages
• It is the strategic direction for N/D application development
• Start from http://xpages.info
• Download ready-to-use libraries and components from openNTF.org
• XPages Extension Library, Mobile controls, Connections components...
• Invest in learning
• HTML5, CSS
• Mobile platforms
• JavaScript, Dojo, jQuery, Sencha
• Gadgets, iWidgets, OpenSocial
More next steps....
• Start to use Java pervasively
• XPages business logic, agents...
• Discover the power and flexibility of OSGi
• Java tasklets from openNTF, XPages Extensibility API
• Join the IBM Social Business Toolkit Community
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com/communities/community/ibmsocialbusinesstoolkit
• Download the Social Enabler Project
• http://socialenabler.openntf.org/
XPages Books
Summary
• Social Business applications build on our heritage...
• ...but Social Business today demands new types of applications• Beyond the firewall
• Systems of systems
• Both Cloud and on-premises
• The IBM Social Business Framework enables IBM customers and partners to capitalize on Social Business opportunities • All IBM collaboration products are part of the framework
• Big opportunities for general web developers and established Lotus developers, building on their existing skills
• The new IBM Social Business Toolkit are planned to enable a new class of unified social capabilities based on the latest born-on-the web open standards• Consistent extensibility across products, deployment models and user experiences
• Easy to get started with today's products and cloud developer options
Some Additional Resources
• DeveloperWorks
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/community/wikis.html
• Greenhouse
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com
• openNTF.org
• http://www.openntf.org
• xpages.info
• http://xpages.info
• Videos – Youtube, VideoFest...
• https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/W6696b8ac7465_4a5f_9327_94f1a5d82132/page/VideoFest
• Resources also provided by the community
• http://xpages.tv/, http://xpagesblog.com/..
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