The Strawberry Project

OK. The current session I’m in is on extending the use of the social software platform (Lotus Connections) to use the services in your own applications. This is really where we will be putting in some major development effort in th enear future as far as I can see.

Lotus are betting the farm on this social computing strategy as the key differentiator between them and their nearest competitor. All the apps on offer are now tightly integrated through Sametime and the Connections server. For once what they’re offering actually starts to make sense from a User Experience perspective, but the impacts on our project are probably more profound than we were perhaps expecting.

This is particularly true where Activities are concerned. I think that we will have to work through some fairly fundamental decisions on how we implement WS Process Server and the rigidity of the formality of that approach, against the backdrop of ‘have it your way’ approach to organising information around Activities. They could complement each other well, but I suspect there is bound to be a degree of cloudiness around how an Activity differs to a Process.

Tags: connections, process_server, sametime, social_computing