Lotus Quickr For Instant Teamwork

Quickr - an evolution of QuickPlace
Quickr is intended to revolutionise the way people work together and manage daily content - whether they are inside or outside the company firewall.

Quickr encompasses both team collaboration and document management: "It's the first time one of the enterprise software companies has embraced social computing in a big way.....It's a leap over Microsoft in social computing......It gives the Lotus customer base more reason to look at the Lotus portfolio for things like team collaboration" (Forrester Research, February 2007)

Connecting Quickr to the iPhone, iTouch and iPad
Our partner SNAPPS has introduced SnappFiles - its a free app available on the Apple App Store that delivers secure access to and collaboration on corporate documents stored in IBM Lotus Quickr or Filenet P8 ECM systems. For more info go to http://snappfiles.snapps.com Of course IBM currently also offer a custom Quickr Client that runs on the BlackBerry - so connect your handheld devices and get Quickr wherever you are.

Quickr is taking collaboration to a whole new level
With Quickr you get an impressive range of teamspace and content capabilities:

Shared content libraries
Quickly set up libraries to organize and share content. Users can access content in Lotus Quickr right from their familiar Microsoft Windows desktop. They simply drag documents from their C-drive folders to personal or shared Lotus Quickr places. Or, they can save documents to Lotus Quickr folders directly from the application they are using.

Connectors to popular applications
Simple integration helps save time and effort. Users can work where they are without switching out of their applications. With a simple click, Lotus Notes users can move attachments into Lotus Quickr libraries and send links instead of large e-mail files. Microsoft Office users just check documents in and out of the Lotus Quickr document libraries and more.

Team places
Easily create online places for projects or teams. Users get a do-it-yourself guide to help them set up places and components to customize them with team calendars, discussion forums, blogs, wikis and other collaboration tools for managing projects.

Ready-to-use Templates
Our fellow Penumbra Member SNAPPS is the official design partner for Quickr. You can see more about Quickr from Rob Novak of SNAPPS here. SNAPPS have developed a whole range of templates for IBM that you can use right "out of the box" for such tasks as project management, surveys and meeting management. These are excellent business tools.

For Administrators

  • Increased reporting for more intuitive information about servers, places and users
  • A "dashboard" interface which gives place managers more control over their places!
  • A Place Superuser role - while not specifically for administrators, this new role allows a Place manager to perform tasks that require calling the administrator today

For End Users
  • A complete overhaul of the user interface using Web 2.0 technologies and AJAX -- a productivity boost as well as bringing Quickr in line with the advanced capabilities of new browser applications
  • Contextual menus to perform actions on documents directly from the folder view
  • Mouse-over popups for member "business cards"
  • Drag and drop documents into folders
  • A new visual theme to leverage the enhanced UI capabilities
  • Open Document Format support
  • RSS and Atom feeds for subscription and notification of Quickr content and events
  • Deeper integration with Microsoft Office - open, save and modify directly from the menu and toolbar
  • Integration with e-mail -- drag and drop threads and attachments from e-mail into QuickPlace folders shown directly in your inbox!
  • Integration with the Eclipse-based Notes Client - including a sidebar panel to see your places
  • Integration with Activities, with the ability to add QuickPlace data to an Activity and see your activities in your place
  • Integration with Sametime via plug-ins that surface QuickPlace membership information, contextual "our places" links during chats, and more

For Developers & Partners
  • Exposure and extension of the Quickr AJAX methods by including them on the file system instead of embedded in a template
  • Resources for development of additional plug-in and integration solutions and products for ISVs
  • Similar to above, exposure of Quickr data via RSS and Atom feeds will allow developers to create solutions we haven't even thought of yet
  • Web Services integration

Overall Quickr is taking collaboration to a whole new level. If you would like to see Quickr or hear more about what it can do for your business then please contact us.

Collaboration University for IBM Lotus Sametime and Quickr - Deep-Dive Technical Event
With a deep-dive technical focus on Lotus Quickr and Sametime, related integration and strategy sessions, and expertise concentrated in one place, you get the most in-depth training possible, with unprecedented access to well-known industry experts."This great little conference has had such an impact on the skills of so many people that we often hear back months - and even years - from attendees, with success stories linking back to what they learned from our experts" says Rob Novak of CU. You can see more at http://www.collaborationuniversity.com