Quickplace Product Information--Benefits -IBM Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) 6.5.1 is a business-ready, self-service work space expressly designed for team collaboration. With Lotus Team Workplace, users can instantly create secure work spaces on the Web, providing them with a ""Place"" to coordinate, collaborate and communicate on any project or ad hoc initiative. Key Lotus Team Workplace capabilities include:
Coordination. People, tasks, plans, and resources.
Collaboration. Ideas and discussion, issues, shared documents, files and general due diligence.
Communication. Actions and decisions, key findings and lessons and knowledge capture.
Organizations of all sizes can take advantage Lotus Team Workplace right out-of-the-box -- or they can easily customize it to meet their unique business requirements. In fact, over 2.5 million team members worldwide use this market-leading and award-winning tool every day to communicate, collaborate, coordinate and work!
Deploying QuickPlace -Lotus QuickPlace is the leading self-service Web tool for team collaboration. With QuickPlace, teams can share a virtual workspace to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate. People can create and share documents and knowledge, discuss ideas, coordinate tasks, do project management, just to mention a few of the features that QuickPlace offers.
QuickPlaces are created for a variety of reasons. They can serve as collaborative workspaces for teams, they can be created for projects that live only a limited time, and they can be used to help communicate and work together with people outside the company boundaries.
This IBM Redbook shows you how to install, configure, and deploy QuickPlace in your organization. It gives step-by-step installation instructions for the QuickPlace server, and describes how to configure it to use the directories your organization already has. The book includes tips for planning your QuickPlace environment to be scalable, and describes how to install and configure QuickPlace clusters. Detailed instructions as well as examples are presented.
Since QuickPlaces generally contain sensitive information, we discuss the security aspects of the QuickPlace server in detail and describe how to make a QuickPlace installation secure. And, because the number of users and QuickPlaces in an organization tend to expand quickly, we present techniques to manage this growth and the challenges it presents.
The deployment of a new solution or product such as Lotus QuickPlace often starts with a pilot. We discuss issues you should consider when planning for such a pilot, and provide information on how to migrate a pilot installation into a full production environment. Examples of migration scenarios are also given.
QuickPlace complements many other solutions your organization probably already has in place, and is designed to integrate easily with them. This redbook tells you how to extend QuickPlace by connecting it to other solutions such as Lotus Sametime, Lotus Workflow, and IBM WebSphere Portal Server.
1. Introduction and planning
2. Installing and configuring QuickPlace
3. Directories and authentication
4. Security
5. Availability with clustering
6. Going live
7. Integrating QuickPlace with other software technologies
Taking QuickPlace to the next level of collaborative knowledge sharing -In this article, the first of six in a series on emerging second generation Knowledge Management technology, I'll discuss how we can leverage unstructured documents in QuickPlace (at http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/quickplace) for collaborative knowledge sharing. Using the latest computing architecture, I'll describe a highly scalable pattern-based approach that can use multidimensional hyperspace dynamically to capture and harness knowledge concept relationships in documents, leveraging how we learn to optimize knowledge reuse.
In subsequent articles, I'll address why search can't work to clear the infoglut logjam, why First generation Knowledge Management came up short, and why a pattern-based approach can deliver on the promise to help us leverage what we know for business value.
