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© 2008 IBM Corporation

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Atlas for Lotus ConnectionsUnlock the power of your social network!

Customer Overview Presentation

An IBM Software Services for LotusCommercial Asset

IBM Software Group | Lotus software


Agenda

● What is Atlas for Lotus Connections?

● What is new in Atlas 2.0?

● Atlas frequently asked questions (FAQ)



Overview● What is Atlas for Lotus Connections?

Expertise Search and Social Network Analysis Suite– Combines the power of Advanced Expertise Location, social networks, and

social network analysis to enable users to better understand and leverage existing social networks within an organization

– Capabilities Include:● Find & Reach - Advanced Expertise Location● MyNet - Personal Social Network Visualisation● Network - Enterprise Social Network Visualisation

Atlas for Lotus Connections extends the value of Lotus Connections by:– Enhancing expertise search based on people's work– Empowering user's to leverage their corporate relationships to accomplish tasks– Analyzing social data to help to identify what specific areas of knowledge

expertise are at risk based on planned (or unplanned) attrition (e.g. retirement, separation or leave of absence)



Expertise Location:FIND

● Information from Lotus Connections Profiles

● Social path from Atlas● Ranking results from Atlas

Statistics on social network from Atlas

Find out who are the experts of any search term based on public data, such as reporting structures, blogs, communities, plus email and IM communications

Rank experts based on collaborative expert recommendation

Filter the expert search based on criteria such as corporate-wide, business unit, geography or personal proximity



Expertise Location: REACH

Lotus Connections actions:

● Communities● Dogear● Blogs

Lotus Connections Profile data

Reach Paths show the shortest paths to reach a person up to 6 degrees of separation away

Access – knowing who can help introduce me to this person

Trust – knowing who in my social networks knows this person

Familiarity – knowing which people are contacting this person

Conversation – who we know in common helps start the conversation due a common reference

Atlas suggests “social paths” to reach your expert



Enterprise Social Network Analysis (SNA):NET

Utilize Enterprise SNA to show:● Who are the important

HUBS among experts● Who are the important

BRIDGES linking groups

Visualize Social Networks from:● Profiles formal Hierarchy● Community memberships● Common Dogear tags ● Expertise keyword

What is the communication flow within my organization or community?



Personal Social Network:MyNET

Understand your contact's social value

● Diversity in Social Networks is essential to innovation

● Few tools help individuals assess and develop thatdiversity

● Users assess own networks and drive adoption

How healthy is my personal social capital?

● Number of connections

● Physical location of colleagues

● Geo & organizational relationships

What is the social value of my colleague to me?

● Additional people to whom my colleague can introduce me

● Their physical & organizational location

What are the changes and trends?

● Number of new connections created

● Identification of those who can assist to expand my social network



What is new in version 2.0... Widgets!

What are people in my network doing?Atlas Blogs, Communities, Dogear personalized widgets

How can I reach a Profiles contact? Atlas Profiles widget

New privacy features Privacy mail notification to non-Atlas users

Informing employees that have not yet joined Atlas that they been recognized by the system and giving them the option to:a) do nothing and remain in the systemb) join Atlas by downloading and contributing the analysis of their datac) opt-out of the system

Removal from search result Enables users to remove themselves from search results. For example, when changing roles or

organizations, a user may no longer want to be associated with a particular query. Inappropriate and stop words submission and processing

Inappropriate words: prevents the search from executing (e.g. “cocaine”) Stop words: removes words from search query (e.g. “at, a, the”) but still executes the search



What's new in version 2.0... (continued)

Additional integration with Connections

Leveraging LC data to further define expertise, relationships and eventually interests. Leveraging manual Profile relationships (i.e. My Colleagues) to enhance the accuracy

of your personal social network (i.e. MyNet).

Administration interface & reporting

Inappropriate & stop word management Index monitoring & management Reports available include:

Search transactions: Query how many searches are processed in each module (Net, Reach, Find) given a period of time.

Contributing report: Query the total number of contributors, and newly joined members over a given time period.

User report: Query how many users have executed searches Feed Consumer Service: Expertise & Relationships

Incorporate expertise and relationship information from other enterprise application sources via ATOM feeds



Unlock the power of social data

Enhance enterprise applications with social data. For example:

Personalizing data (e.g. Blogs, web content authoring, document authoring) based on who you know

Turn an expertise location application into team expertise application – finding teams of experts who have worked together rather than individual experts

Atlas APIs

Available for Find, Reach, Net, and MyNet information ATOM and GraphML



Atlas Widgets for Lotus Connections



Atlas Administration Interface



FAQ's What languages are available?

– English. – Other western languages may be accommodated via an ISSL services engagement.

Is Atlas available stand-alone without Lotus Connections?

– No

What if a customer already has Lotus Connections installed?

– The ISSL services offering can be modified to just the Atlas asset price/license and services implementation only.

Can the customer run Atlas using the same WAS license that ships with Lotus Connections?

– No. The WAS license that ships with Lotus Connections is a limited use license and restricts the customer to only use WAS with Lotus Connections. The customer will need to a valid WAS license to deploy this asset.

What operating systems are supported for Atlas?

– Linux (RedHat v4-u4)

Will Atlas work with other collaborative tools such as Microsoft Outlook for e-Mail and Microsoft Live Communications Server for Instant Messaging.

– This can be accomplished by additional ISSL services.

What other data sources can be used with Atlas?

– Atlas can consume other data through ATOM feeds.

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