© 2008 IBM Corporation ® Atlas for Lotus Connections Unlock the power of your social network! Customer Overview Presentation An IBM Software Services for Lotus Commercial Asset

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Agenda ● What is Atlas for Lotus Connections? ● What is new in Atlas 2.0? ● Atlas frequently asked questions (FAQ)

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Overview ● What is Atlas for Lotus Connections?  Expertise Search and Social Network Analysis Suite – Combines the power of Advanced Expertise Location, social networks, and social network analysis to enable users to better understand and leverage existing social networks within an organization – Capabilities Include: ● Find & Reach - Advanced Expertise Location ● MyNet - Personal Social Network Visualisation ● Network - Enterprise Social Network Visualisation  Atlas for Lotus Connections extends the value of Lotus Connections by: – Enhancing expertise search based on people's work – Empowering user's to leverage their corporate relationships to accomplish tasks – Analyzing social data to help to identify what specific areas of knowledge expertise are at risk based on planned (or unplanned) attrition (e.g. retirement, separation or leave of absence)

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Expertise Location: FIND ● Information from Lotus Connections Profiles ● Social path from Atlas ● Ranking results from Atlas Statistics on social network from Atlas Find out who are the experts of any search term based on public data, such as reporting structures, blogs, communities, plus and IM communications Rank experts based on collaborative expert recommendation Filter the expert search based on criteria such as corporate- wide, business unit, geography or personal proximity

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Expertise Location: REACH Lotus Connections actions: ● Communities ● Dogear ● Blogs Lotus Connections Profile data Reach Paths show the shortest paths to reach a person up to 6 degrees of separation away Access – knowing who can help introduce me to this person Trust – knowing who in my social networks knows this person Familiarity – knowing which people are contacting this person Conversation – who we know in common helps start the conversation due a common reference Atlas suggests “social paths” to reach your expert

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Enterprise Social Network Analysis (SNA): NET Utilize Enterprise SNA to show: ● Who are the important HUBS among experts ● Who are the important BRIDGES linking groups Visualize Social Networks from: ● Profiles formal Hierarchy ● Community memberships ● Common Dogear tags ● Expertise keyword What is the communication flow within my organization or community?

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Personal Social Network: MyNET Understand your contact's social value ● Diversity in Social Networks is essential to innovation ● Few tools help individuals assess and develop that diversity ● Users assess own networks and drive adoption How healthy is my personal social capital? ● Number of connections ● Physical location of colleagues ● Geo & organizational relationships What is the social value of my colleague to me? ● Additional people to whom my colleague can introduce me ● Their physical & organizational location What are the changes and trends? ● Number of new connections created ● Identification of those who can assist to expand my social network

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation What is new in version  Widgets!  What are people in my network doing? Atlas Blogs, Communities, Dogear personalized widgets  How can I reach a Profiles contact? Atlas Profiles widget  New privacy features  Privacy mail notification to non-Atlas users Informing employees that have not yet joined Atlas that they been recognized by the system and giving them the option to: a) do nothing and remain in the system b) join Atlas by downloading and contributing the analysis of their data c) opt-out of the system  Removal from search result Enables users to remove themselves from search results. For example, when changing roles or organizations, a user may no longer want to be associated with a particular query.  Inappropriate and stop words submission and processing Inappropriate words: prevents the search from executing (e.g. “cocaine”) Stop words: removes words from search query (e.g. “at, a, the”) but still executes the search

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation What's new in version (continued)  Additional integration with Connections  Leveraging LC data to further define expertise, relationships and eventually interests.  Leveraging manual Profile relationships (i.e. My Colleagues) to enhance the accuracy of your personal social network (i.e. MyNet).  Administration interface & reporting  Inappropriate & stop word management  Index monitoring & management  Reports available include: Search transactions: Query how many searches are processed in each module (Net, Reach, Find) given a period of time. Contributing report: Query the total number of contributors, and newly joined members over a given time period. User report: Query how many users have executed searches  Feed Consumer Service: Expertise & Relationships Incorporate expertise and relationship information from other enterprise application sources via ATOM feeds

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Unlock the power of social data  Enhance enterprise applications with social data. For example:  Personalizing data (e.g. Blogs, web content authoring, document authoring) based on who you know  Turn an expertise location application into team expertise application – finding teams of experts who have worked together rather than individual experts  Atlas APIs  Available for Find, Reach, Net, and MyNet information  ATOM and GraphML

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Atlas Widgets for Lotus Connections

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation Atlas Administration Interface

IBM Software Group | Lotus software © 2008 IBM Corporation FAQ's  What languages are available? –English. –Other western languages may be accommodated via an ISSL services engagement.  Is Atlas available stand-alone without Lotus Connections? –No  What if a customer already has Lotus Connections installed? –The ISSL services offering can be modified to just the Atlas asset price/license and services implementation only.  Can the customer run Atlas using the same WAS license that ships with Lotus Connections? –No. The WAS license that ships with Lotus Connections is a limited use license and restricts the customer to only use WAS with Lotus Connections. The customer will need to a valid WAS license to deploy this asset.  What operating systems are supported for Atlas? –Linux (RedHat v4-u4)  Will Atlas work with other collaborative tools such as Microsoft Outlook for and Microsoft Live Communications Server for Instant Messaging. –This can be accomplished by additional ISSL services.  What other data sources can be used with Atlas? –Atlas can consume other data through ATOM feeds.