As usual a session about the future of IBM Notes and Domino was a session that was packed with people. You can take Lotusphere out the Connect, but you can’t Lotusphere out of the attendee.
We were presented with a roadmap with the following key points for Domino:
Mail, contacts and calendar support for Microsoft Outlook on Domino will be available during 2016.
Domino Next (which means the next version of Domino) will be out during 2016.
- TLS 1.2 support for all protocols
- Store databases vie windexes outside of NSF file and on the file system, like you do on your mail files today
- Live view refresh
- Support for winmail.dat files
- Java (JVM) will finally be updated to the latest version!
Here are the key points for Domino Designer (which means that there will be a new version of it):
- Designer integration with Bluemix
- Document encryption and signing in Xpages
- API access to ID Vault
- Responsive design with Bootstrap
- Easy to integrate data from relational databases
- Open sourcing of most of Xpages
- Java 8, Dojo, Bootstrap, CK Editor, OSGi and Active Content Filtering will be upgraded to the latest versions
Here are the key points for the Notes Browser plugin:
- It is now rebranded and will be called IBM Client Application Access (ICAA)
- It’s now a stand alone application instead of a browser plugin
- Support for all @commands
- Can be installed with the IBM Notes Rich Client
- Will now also work on the Mac since it’s stand alone application
Here are the key points for IBM Verse on mobile (Traveler):
- Meeting Moderators can now view who has accpeted a meeting invitation
- Real-time push notifications
- MaaS360 Cloud Exterior support
- Calendar ghosting on unprocessed calendar invitations
Here are the key points for the IBM Notes Client:
- Improved calendar interoperability with winmail.dat
- Display internet style addresses instead of Notes addresses
- Rules will run on existing messages as well as on new messages
- You can now delegate calendar and To Do entries!
- CCM support for the Files plugin
- Template updates
- Windows 10 support
Here are the key points for IBM iNotes (webmail):
- Improved calendar interoperability with winmail.dat
- Delegate calendar and To Do entries
- Open message in Notes client or ICAA when detecting Notes/Lotusscript
- buttons within a message
- Support for mailto: and sendto:
- Support for IE Standard (no-quirks) mode
- Support for Microsoft Edge browser
- Integration with the latest version of Sametime, Docs and Connections
Here are the key points for IBM Verse (the new web mail IBM has been talking a lot about):
- Out of Office support
- Define/Insert signature
- Prevent copying
- Share to blog
- File preview for Microsoft Office files
- Send encrypted and digitally signed mail
- Business card on typeahead
- Team analytics
- It will be on premise during the second half of 2016!
