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The Pink RoadDorothy’s Journey Through An All Pink Wonderland

Miki Banatwala

STSM, IBM Connections

Jim PuckettOffering Manager

IBM Connections, IBM Docs

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Getting Started - C6 & Orient Me

What is Pink

Roadmap

Technology Stack

Deployment model - Simplified

• Orient Me

• Prioritized updates and naturally

organized content

• Built using Pink design principles and

infrastructure

• Flexible community layouts

• Enhanced Files experience

The path to Pink starts with Connections 6

Introducing

Connections PINK

Composed of integrated applications

where users and cognitive systems collaborate

in an environment tailored to their needs

allowing work to seamlessly flow between different mediums,

in context

Connections PINK: An engagement platform

tying together people and their content in the fabric of collaboration

• Designed for usability

Connections PINK

• Focused on the people you collaborate with

• Focused on the content you collaborate on

• Focused on engagement

• Delivering low code/no code application development

• Inherently cognitive

• Built for agility and future needs

® 2017 IBM Collaboration Solutions

Work the way you want

Our solutions run on our

public cloud, your dedicated

cloud, private cloud, or in

hybrid cloud scenarios*. You

should control where your

data lives.*

Your cloud and your data

Our solutions are optimized

for digital business with

continuous delivery,

engaging end-to-end

experiences, and value that

will keep you coming back

for more.

Easy to try, deploy, and grow

Always up-to-date

Your solutions should

understand the way you

work and the language of

your profession. They

should be easily tailored to

meet any need by you.

*Watson services available on public and dedicated cloud.

IBM Connections

Evolved

IBM Connections BlueOn Premise

IBM Connections GreenCloud

IBM Connections Pink

• New codebase

• Interoperability with Blue and

Green

• IBM Public Cloud current codebase

• Orient Me – First of the Pink Features

• Enhanced Files and Communities

• Box.com Integration

• Fit and Finish

• Connections On-Premise current

codebase

• Orient Me – First of the Pink Features

• Enhanced Files and Communities

• User On-boarding (Touchpoint)

Fit and Finish

Connections PINK

2017 2018

Connections Customizer

Preview

First part of Pink Middleware.

Allows customers and partners to

easily customize the Connections

UI.

OrientMe 2

First on premises update of

OrientMe containers released

including cognitive tuning updates,

increased scalability, etc.

Connections 6 Mobile

Includes new search, community

features, all new navigation, etc.

OrientMe in Public Cloud

Deployment of OrientMe into

Connections Cloud

Periscope UI Refresh

A new modern theme using the

latest design elements for

Connections Pink .

Connections Middleware

Seamless integration between

existing Connections deployments

and the new Pink Services.

Pink Mobile

GA release of Pink Mobile Clients.

Engagement Center

First release of IBM Connections

Engagement Center. Provides a

digital workspace that promotes

internal communication and

employee engagement.

LiveGrid Preview

Build dynamic applications with

minimal or no coding experience.

IC 6 CR1

CR1 for IBM Connections 6

including new metrics service.

Live Remarks

Enable and manage reactions on

content (e.g. Like and Comment) across

Connections and 3rd Party services.

Periscope UI Refresh (2)

People Service

New People Service providing a

unified Profiles directory.

Content Service

New universal content store for all

Pink applications.

Pink Notes

Note taking with social and graph

context.

Engagement Center Pink

Pink release of Engagement Center

Engagement Center Cloud

Cloud release of Engagement

Center

LiveGrid GA

Pink Mobile Preview

Leveraging latest technologies to

build a new Pink mobile experience

starting with Profiles / People.

Content Centric Apps

Leveraging the new Content

Service to provide files, wikis,

blogs, and forums experiences.

Connections Customizer

First part of Pink Middleware.

Allows customers and partners to

easily customize the Connections

UI.

An additional new modern theme

using the latest design elements for

Connections Pink .

Build dynamic applications with

minimal or no coding experience.

**Subject to change

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PINK Technology

• Modern CI-CD

• StrongLoop / IBM API Connect (node.js/express)

• SWIFT / GO

• React.js

• MongoDB

• Redis

• Nginx

• Docker

Containers

Pink will be designed as a set of containers able to be deployed in IBM’s

cloud offering, a partners cloud, or a private cloud at a customer premises

Public/Private Cloud Options

Private/Partner clouds will be given two options. Stay up-to-date in the

pipeline or some ‘TBD’ level

A new way to install

Conductor For Containers.

Support

IBM Only Supports what is in or supported by the containers

PINK DELIVERY MODEL

Container Ecosystem

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Slide

• Some great idea here

• And here

• And also here

CONTAINER MANAGEMENT

• Container Management Platforms are also known as container managers, container orchestration

engines (COEs), container orchestration platforms and containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platforms.

• It helps enterprises address the challenges of deploying containers. These platforms let administrators

monitor, manage, secure, and scale containers similar to how they treat existing servers and virtual machines.

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Slide

• Some great idea here

• And here

• And also here

CONNECTIONS PINK (1)

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PINK Delivery Model

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10k foot view

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Infrastructure

Common

Microservices

Monitoring Logging Governor

… … …

OrientMe Metrics Customizer LiveGrid …

Supporting

Microservices

Services

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10k foot view

…

… …

Infrastructure

Common

Microservices

Monitoring Logging Governor

… … …

OrientMe Metrics Customizer LiveGrid …

Supporting

Microservices

Services

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10k foot view

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…

Infrastructure

Common

Microservices

Monitoring Logging Governor

… … …

OrientMe Metrics Customizer LiveGrid …

Supporting

Microservices

Services

Introducing Connections “Pink” Starter Stacks

Simplifies deployment of new Pink

infrastructure

Guided install of only the components

required for the Pink capabilities being

deployed

Easy upgrade path to add on

incremental infrastructure as you

expand to additional Pink services

Elastic Search

Mongo

Redis

SOLR

Zookeeper

Pink Metrics

Customizer

Orient Me

Planned Availability: 4Q 2017

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PINK Starter Stack

• Things to consider:

Not a bunch of bolts!

Make adoption easier

Less resources

Less to Manage

Deploy what you need (within reason)

Grow the deployment

Upgrade

Install/Un-install

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Resources

Where to download IBM Connections 6 Components :

• IBM Collaboration Solutions Catalog - IBM Connections Touchpoint

• IBM Knowledge Center - Installing Connections Touchpoint

• Fix Central - IBM Connections Orient Me

Available in the ICS Catalog :

• IBM Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Microsoft Windows

• IBM Connections Plug-ins for IBM Notes

• IBM Connections Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook

• IBM Connections for Mac

Also Available on Fix Central:

• Ephox Editor for IBM Connections

• IBM Connections Type-ahead Search• Day1 iFix

• IBM Connections Orient Me June 2017 Update

• IBM Connections 6.0 June 2017 Update iFix (APAR LO92151)

June 2017 - Ephox Editors (Textbox.io) have been updated for

both IC 6.0 and IC 5.5• Ephox Editors 3.5.1.3 - Textbox.io 2.2.1.58 for IBM Connections 6.0

• Ephox Editors 3.5.1.3 - Textbox.io 2.2.1.58 for IBM Connections 5.5 CR3

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