RIM WES Blackberry 2009 Opening General Session
Key messages from the Research in Motion Wireless Enterprise Symposium for Blackberry 2009 opening general session:
Mike Lazaridis, Co-CEO of RIM
Bob Picciano, General Manager, Lotus and Websphere Portal Software, IBM Software Group
Laurent Philonenko, Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communication Business Unit, Cisco
Mike Lazaridis, Co-CEO of RIM
- Conference theme: Enable, Empower, Inform
- RIM has sold 50 million smartphones to date
- RIM sold 26 million smartphones in 2009
- RIM is the #1 smartphone in North America
- 2009 is the 10th anniversary of Blackberry
- RIM has 12,000 employees
- Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0 now shipping
- Security is a key differentiator of RIM
- RIM acquisition of Chalk Media - mobile content on demand
- Mobile Voice System - MVS. Wireless extension to the PBX. "Single-number"
- Vocera (partner) - VoIP for nurses
- Wireless Presentation Solution - leave your laptop behind and use your Blackberry to present
- Blackberry App World
- "Office in your hand"
- "Doing things better and saving costs"
Bob Picciano, General Manager, Lotus and Websphere Portal Software, IBM Software Group
- Lotus State of the Business - over 13K new Lotus customers (Notes, Sametime, Symphony, Connections, LotusLive, etc.). 30% increase in Sametime customers in 2008
- Smarter Planet - the world is connected: economically, socially and technically. Smart people working smarter
- Working Smarter - 71% of CEOs plan greater focus on innovation and doing things differently
- Working smarter requires vision
- Universal access to collaboration
- Messaging becomes in integrated platform - Notes 8.5. Notes and Blackberry, stronger together
- Managing through human networks and not rigid corporate hierarchies
- Telephony becomes voice collaboration - Sametime Unified Telephony, Click to call becomes click to collaborate
- Innovative desktop productivity tools - Lotus Symphony (Open Document Format). This keynote is Bob's one year anniversary of uninstalling Microsoft Office and using Lotus Symphony for all his presentations. BES 5.0 - supports ODF attachments (first applause from the audience)
- Transform SMB into Global Trading Partners
- Linux emerges onto the Corporate Desktop. 30% of netbooks purchased run with Linux. Divert critical spending to other initiatives
- Proliferation of cloud computing - LotusLive. Collaboration in the cloud. More than just delivering services through a web interface. Planned beta for Blackberry 2Q/2009. Key value proposition is collaborating with other customers and sharing
- Situational apps solve daily problems - mashups
- Working smarter - Alloy by IBM and SAP. First public demo of Alloy on Blackberry. Come visit the IBM booth at the product showcase to see it for yourself. Working smarter on a smarter planet
Laurent Philonenko, Vice President and General Manager, Unified Communication Business Unit, Cisco
- Improving the nature of work through mobile collaboration
- Cisco & RIM - enabling mobile collaboration one capability at a time
- End to End Connected Experiences
- Great product demo showing participating in a meeting from a Blackberry
- Audio conference on the Blackberry
- Slide presentation on the Blackberry
- Automatic re-connect to the meeting (audio and slides) when exiting a tunnel
- Receiving a call on the Blackberry while in the meeting and adding the user to the meeting
- Receiving an SMS message while in the meeting, ability to share the content with the team (slide presentation)
- User arrives at the office and available conference rooms in displayed on the Blackberry
- Upon entering the room, the audio switches automatically to the speakerphone in the room and the video is display on the monitor
