Lotus and Domino Next: A Glimpse Into IBM's Collaboration Future

Excerpted from the Gartner Report

IBM's primary goal with the next major release of Notes and Domino is to make it more consistend and interoperable across a range of IBM and other collaboration products.

Key Findings
The planned evolution of Notes and Domino highlights numerous trends in the collaboration market such as:

  • The broader movement toward activity streams as a way of aggregating and propagating information.

  • The decomposition of monolithic collaboration products to enable use of some services (like calendar) inside other applications.

  • The ability for collaboration products to include external collaboration services via standards such as Representational State Transfer (REST) and OpenSocial.

  • The elevation of browser and mobile access to parity with traditional desktop clients. Consistend features across "cloud" and on premises provisioning models