Recent by Luis Benitez
Demo: IBM Watson Workspace for Marketing
By Luis Benitez | 11/7/16, 7:41 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
As things settle from the IBM World of Watson conference two weeks ago, today I wanted to take the opportunity to share one of the demos that was shown in a breakout session. The video that demonstrates how IBM Watson Workspace can improve your life as someone who works in marketing.
IBM Watson Workspace -- Code Talks So Here's The First Samples
By Luis Benitez | 11/3/16, 2:29 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Time for the next post on IBM Watson Workspace. In this post I wanted to share some code samples that could help you get going in your development of apps for IBM Watson Workspace using the IBM Watson Work Services and APIs.
Building apps with IBM Watson Work Services
By Luis Benitez | 11/1/16, 2:22 AM | - | Added by John Oldenburger
Last week we launched IBM Watson Workspace and IBM Watson Work Services and one of the crtical aspects of this launch is the platform and extensibility provided by these offerings. Miguel Estrada, Joe Russo, and myself had a session at IBM World of Watson 2016 to talk about the capabilities of the platform.
IBM Verse Integration with Box Is Now Available
By Luis Benitez | 3/15/16, 6:53 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
As part of the IBM + Box partnership, IBM today has released a new integration between IBM Verse and Box allowing Verse users to quickly send files via Box.
Announcing IBM Connections 5.5 & IBM Docs 2.0
By Luis Benitez | 12/15/15, 9:27 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
Announcing the upcoming availability of IBM Connections 5.5 and IBM Docs 2.0 -- Collaboration for the modern world! With over 100 new features, this major on-premises release brings the latest and greatest available to cloud customers as a great end of year gift!
Check Out This Demo of the New IBM Connections Editor
By Luis Benitez | 10/14/15, 8:13 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by John Oldenburger
The new IBM Connections Editor is a companion application the to the IBM Connections Mobile application for iOS and Android devices. The IBM Connections Editor is a full-featured mobile editor, which will allow you to take files directly from IBM Connections Files and easily view or edit those files on your mobile device.
Next Week: Join Me at the IBM Connections Files and Communities Webcast
By Luis Benitez | 5/14/15, 4:57 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Next week, I'll be participating in a webcast to talk about all the new capabilities that we've added to IBM Connections Files and Communities. The webcast was put together by the team over at SocialBizUG.org. Our goal is to give you an update of all the cool things that are now part of the product.
IBM Connections Adds Secure File Sync and Share Offering On-premises
By Luis Benitez | 5/5/15, 8:21 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
Following the release last quarter of our secure file sync and share offering in cloud, today we have just released the equivalent offering for those customers who would like to deploy this on premises.
What's New in the April 2015 Release of IBM Connections Social Cloud
By Luis Benitez | 4/23/15, 4:11 AM | - | Added by Johnny Oldenburger
As we run our final checklist to turn on the new features, I wanted to give you a heads up as to what to expect next week. I had the opportunity to give a preview of these to the audience at Social Connections, the independent IBM Connections user group, last week in Boston.
From IBM ConnectED 2015 - What's New in IBM Connections
By Luis Benitez | 2/3/15, 11:32 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Johnny Oldenburger
Yesterday I posted a recap of the IBM ConnectED 2015 OGS. Today, I wanted to focus on the What's New in IBM Connections session that I presented at after the keynote. The intent of the session was to recap our deliveries in 2014 (which were a lot!) and then give you a glimpse at what's coming next.
Check It Out -- New IBM Connections Features Available in Cloud
By Luis Benitez | 11/24/14, 1:00 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho
In this month's release (if you are wondering, we'll skip updates in December because of the holidays so the next release will be in January), you'll find capabilities that the community has been asking for in the IBM Connections ideation area.
How To Move Jive Content to IBM Connections
By Luis Benitez | 10/21/14, 8:10 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho
I wanted to highlight our automated migration tools that we can use to move people, content and places from your existing solution into IBM Connections.
Hootsuite Now Integrates with IBM Connections Social Cloud
By Luis Benitez | 10/15/14, 8:47 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Now, this is HUGE! Today Hootsuite has announced their new capabilities now with added support for IBM Connections Social Cloud. Check out their announcement here.
The IBM Connections app for Hootsuite is now available in the Hootsuite App Directory.
Google Hangout Replay: A Social Business, Cloud, Mobile and IBM Connections Conversation
By Luis Benitez | 10/9/14, 2:00 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Last week I had the opportunity to try out Google Hangout On Air. It's been something that I've wanted to try for a while and with the latest cloud release of IBM Connections last week, it would be a good time to try it out.
Joining me is Luis Suarez (no, not the guy who bites), an independent social business advisor and Simon Vaughan, an IBM Champion and one of the organizers of Social Connec[...]
More IBM Connections Social Features Now Available Inside Microsoft Office
By Luis Benitez | 9/18/14, 7:53 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho
The desktop plug-ins brings some cool new features to those of you working with Microsoft Office Desktop apps (even if you use the desktop apps with Office 365).
Gartner Recognizes IBM Connections as a Leader in the 2014 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace
By Luis Benitez | 9/17/14, 7:59 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
For the 6th year in a row, Gartner has placed IBM Connections as a Leader in their recently released 2014 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace.
Social Business More than Doubles Since 2012 – Pacesetters Are Seeing the Biggest Wins
By Luis Benitez | 8/21/14, 1:19 PM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann
IBM's Center for Applied Insights just released their 2014 Business Tech Trends report , which surveyed over 1,400 decision makers across 15 industries around the world to find out how businesses are deploying key technologies. The...
The IBM Connections 5.0 Reviewer's Guide is Now Available in the iBook Store
By Luis Benitez | 8/4/14, 2:00 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
The IBM Connections 5.0 Reviewer's Guide is available as shared by one of my teammates in the product management team, Albert Nichols.
Announcing the latest IBM Connections Mail Plug-In
By Luis Benitez | 7/25/14, 2:00 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Oliver Busse
Today, IBM Connections Mail gets an update. If you don't know what IBM Connections Mail, let's catch you up. IBM Connections Mail provides a simple and compelling way to perform essential email and calendaring tasks right from IBM Connections.
Download the New IBM Connections 5.0 Desktop Plugins
By Luis Benitez | 6/20/14, 11:43 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Kenio Carvalho
The new IBM Connections Desktop plug-ins for Microsoft Windows have just been released to our app catalog.
Announcing IBM Connections 5.0
By Luis Benitez | 6/17/14, 3:15 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
Today we are announcing IBM Connections 5.0 and that's just a week after IBM Connections came out as a leader in the latest Forrester Wave.
Mark you calendars: Introducing IBM Connections Next !
By Luis Benitez | 4/22/14, 2:00 AM | - | Added by Peter D Presnell
In less than a month, IBM will be introducing the newest, latest, and greatest release of IBM Connections. Some of the latest capabilities were shown during the keynote demo at IBM Connect 2014.
Now, it's time to unveil everything that we've been working on for the past year or so and bring it to you. The official unveiling will happen on May 21st so mark your calendars !
As we've done in[...]
Get 5 minute tips on IBM Connections -- every day!
By Luis Benitez | 4/21/14, 2:00 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho
If you got here, you are either a regular subscriber to this blog, a fan of IBM Connections, or you are looking for tips and tricks to get the most value out of the enterprise social collaboration platform.
Tip: How To Share Links Using The IBM Connections Mobile App
By Luis Benitez | 3/11/14, 2:00 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Ove Størholt
Various users have reached out to me asking how they can share links / pages as they surf the web from their mobile device with their network in IBM Connections.
The trick is to use what's called bookmarklets. Follow these instructions to add the two bookmark lets to your browser and then you'll be able to quickly share links from your mobile browser to the IBM Connections Mobile app. I've wri[...]
Communardo Further Integrates Confluence with IBM Connections
By Luis Benitez | 3/6/14, 1:00 AM | - | Added by Ove Størholt
I've talked about integration of IBM Connections with Confluence in the past. Communardo has created 3 new integration points to bring together IBM Connections and Atlassian's Confluence. These integration points are important for organizations that may be using both products and want to provide more synergy between them. This is yet another example of IBM Connections as a social layer, where you[...]
Let's recap IBM Connections at IBM Connect 2014
By Luis Benitez | 2/14/14, 6:59 AM | - | Added by Christian Güdemann
Things are finally settling down 2 weeks after the "amaze-balls" IBM Connect 2014:
I think @jaybaer summed up MailNext perfectly in one word: #amazeballs #IBMConnect pic.twitter.com/4aEDD0hg7a
— Paige Sandhu (@paige_sandhu) January 27, 2014
So what I wanted to do now was take a break and recap what we said and showed about IBM Connections during the conference.
The Keyno[...]
Announcing IBM Connections 4.5 IFR2: Advanced content editing for all!
By Luis Benitez | 2/11/14, 1:00 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff
Now that you know how the IBM Connect 2014 OGS demo was built, let's get into the nitty gritty and recap the announcements that were made.
The Code Behind My IBM Connect 2014 Keynote Demo - Part 4
By Luis Benitez | 2/10/14, 9:50 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff
And here we come. The 4th and final post on the code that I used during the IBM Connect 2014 keynote (the OGS!). If you need to catch up, here's Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
The Code Behind My IBM Connect 2014 Keynote Demo - Part 3
By Luis Benitez | 2/7/14, 1:33 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten
Alright, let's move on to the next piece shown at the OGS. If you want to know what this is, I would suggest you catch up with Part 1 and Part 2.
The next part I got ready for the keynote was people search. But I wanted to move away from the typical search results list. I wanted something more visual and easier to digest. I wanted results to be more visual, maybe like a slideshow of people cards that I could flip through.
The Code Behind My IBM Connect 2014 Keynote Demo - Part 2
By Luis Benitez | 2/6/14, 6:00 AM | - | Added by Per Henrik Lausten
Yesterday, I shared the initial piece of code that I got working in getting ready for the IBM Connect 2014 keynote demo. If you haven't seen that, take a look at that before going through this post.