Lotus Top Gun

Last year, around this time i was selected as one of the Lotus Top Gun in the class. Its really a nice moment indeed :) This time IBM is not having the Top Gun classes in Singapore and is happening in KL. I just saw a Tweet from Stephan Wissel, he has just returned from KL after Lotus Top Gun 08.

An Entry after a long time

Its been quite a while since i wrote my blog posts. My last entry was in April 2007. Many things have happened since then and one of the prime reasons why i couldn't blog as much as i want to is my role has changed of late and my focus is more on project management and presales. Most of the time, i am very busy going for meetings, working at the deliverables of the meeting, project management - guiding the team as to how the end deliverables would like and attending project related meetings. Apart from that, working on the proposals for new projects. Given the project is live now with just one more site to be signed off, i am back to my presales activity again.

Well, the project which i was working is a dealers portal based on IBM Websphere Portal 6.0 and Websphere Portlet Factory. We built 2 virtual portals for the dealers and the other one is for Intranet users. I will write down the details a bit later, and now i have few other important things to convey.

First is the Lotus Symphony v1.0 available FOC (free of cost). Symphony 1.0 is definitely much better looking than the other beta. I have downloaded and started to use Presentations which is pretty nice looking with the thumbnail views. Though i am preparing in Symphony, i still save it as a PPT file for MS compatibility cos the same file i can send to other colleagues who are using MS Office. I am spreading this word about Symphony internally in my office and i will have to notify to my senior management about this.

Ok for all of you who are using MS Office, see the alternative Lotus Symphony which is FOC. You will take sometime to learn but i am sure anyone can learn that.

Stage is Set - WorlCup 2007 Finals

It's all set for a scintillating finals between Australia and SriLanka. Though Australia is the no 1 team in the world my heart says SriLanka this time and its not just emotional.

I did some comparative strength and weakness of both the teams and this is the outcome.

Batting Bowling Fielding

5 4 5 Australia

4 5 5 SriLanka

The difference is very marginal but in my opinion the bowling is going to decide the fate of WC Finals 2007 and Muralitharan, Malinga, Fernando and Vass are the key. Muralitharan in particular will be the danger man for Australia. Tackling 60 balls from Muralitharan will be the key for Australia to try and win the finals..

Just my thoughts :) Cheers all

IBM Lotus Product Demo Links

For the benefit of people who attended seminar on Knowledge networking and Web 2.0 on 23rd April monday at IBM Park View Square. Giving all the product demo links for you.

Lotus Connections, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes 8, Dashboard Framework

Download and enjoy in your leisure time. Thank you all for your feedback. It was a good feeling to go through it. Cheers all

Knowledge Networking and Web 2.0

I am delivering a presentation today at IBM Park View Square on Web 2.0 and Knowledge networking along with my Chief Architect Mr. Mani. Last 3 days kept me busy in preparing for it. It's a enjoyable experience though without much sleep etc. I couldn't prepare this piece earlier, as i was working on a Portal project presales and thought i have got at least one week to go through this but all of a sudden my better half caught up with a bad flu and had to rush her to hospital. She was completely down for more than a week and in the recovery path now and hopefully she will be completely alright in this week.

First time, am seeing flu which is there for more than 3 days. She had to undergo blood test and some X-ray tests as well as her temperature was 40-41F all the time.

Well anyways i manage to find time in these 3 days and put up a presentation for my audience. Since this is actually a follow on event to LCTY 2007, i hope most of the audience are a Lotus shop. And am gonna pitch 2 new products which is gonna hit market soon. You know it already, Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr.

And there is already one more seminar coming up on 26th April on WPS. Will cover that soon as well. Cheers all :)