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On This Week in Lotus last week I hinted this might be imminent, then the NDA was lifted, and now here it is - the formal announcement letter for Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino:
IBM Lotus Quickr V8.5 for Domino streamlines user experience and is designed to reduce total cost of ownershipAvailable from September 13th, this is a significant new release of Quickr/Domino, including:
At a glance
IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino makes it easier to share, save, and search important business content while collaborating with colleagues, clients, and partners. Performance improvements and administrative improvements are designed to reduce the total cost of ownership of Lotus Quickr for Domino.
New capabilities include:
- Streamlined user experience
- Native integration with Enterprise Content Management systems
- Feature enhancements you requested including recycle bin and lists
- More extensibility for easy customization
- More administrative control, reporting, and deployment options
Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino integrates with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories. New ECM integration capabilities are:This release is a massive deal for all existing Quickr customers - the new UI, improved connectors and Linux support (+ 100s of other enhancements) all ensure that no existing or prospective Quickr customer should miss taking a good look at what's now available.Adding features you requested makes Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino a competitive and compelling solution for managing business content. Some of the new features included in Quickr 8.5 for Domino are:
- Custom defined mandatory metadata entry, through the Web interface and via Lotus Quickr Connectors
- Direct connection with ECM repositories that allows native display and editing of ECM content directly from the Lotus Quickr Web interface
- Parametric search of ECM content
Additional enhancements make managing Quickr 8.5 for Domino easier:
- Easy document check-in, check-out, and versioning from the Web interface and Lotus Quickr Connectors
- A recycle bin for soft delete capability, which maintains document security
- Round trip editing in all browsers, not just Internet Explorer
- Team calendar overlays to your personal calendar in Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook
- Folder level access control making it easy to secure or share content appropriately
- Intuitive lists function to organize data sets and to provide an easy way to visualize, edit, and analyze tabular data
- Representational State Transfer (REST) services for page and document uploads and expansion of Web service APIs that provide additional extensibility and customization
- Easier to manage with new and easier to use administrative control, reporting, and deployment options.
- Easy to upgrade with support for direct upgrade from Quickr 8.2 to Quickr 8.5 for Domino.
- Expanded and stored system usage statistics that allow trend analysis and easier optimization.
- Multilingual Lotus Quickr servers that are supported for organizations who use different languages. You no longer need to deploy multiple Lotus Quickr servers to support more than one language.
- Supports Windows single sign-on so end users can leverage their Windows logon for the Lotus Quickr browser UI and Lotus Quickr Connectors.
- Linux server support provides more choice of operating systems.
I cannot wait to get Quickr 8.5 into production!
By: Stuart McIntyre | 8 Comments | On: 31 August 2010 11:08:00 | Tags: quickr lotus domino 8.5 ga announcement
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Can you say if this will include Win7 64bit connector client support? (The answer we are looking for is "yes.") ;)
As far as I am aware at this stage, the requirements and support for the connectors for the QuickrD 8.5 release will be the same as for QuickrJ 8.5. as detailed here.
i.e.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Windows XP Professional Version SP3 (x86-32)
Windows Vista Enterprise Version SP2 (x86-32)
Windows 7 Enterprise (x86-32)
Windows 7 Enterprise (x86-64)
Windows 7 Ultimate (x86-32)
Windows 7 Ultimate (x86-64)
Lotus Quickr Connectors are supported on Windows 7 64-bit machines via 32-bit toleration. More specifically, Lotus Quickr Connectors are supported if you are running 32-bit versions of IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Symphony and Microsoft Outlook. The Lotus Quickr Connector for Microsoft Explorer is not currently supported on Windows 7 64-bit.
Any new applications? Are applications updated to take advantage of the new features? Any change that we could get more meaningful applications to come with QuickR? Has anyone done an application availability comparison to Sharepoint? (the 40!) I am happy to hear about the upgrade and the new features (great job), but it's like getting a Porche engine in a VW bug.
Hi,
Firefox round-trip editing sounds good. Does that mean 8.5 has gotten rid of the MS Office ActiveX? Can we now import Office (and Open Office???) document directly into Quickr with Firefox and IE?
Does anybody have a link to the beta?
Best regards,
Anton
Great News. At last we had seen the Folder Level access added to this version which was much awaited. Is there any document available explaining upgrading procedures from 8.2 to 8.5? Is it straight forward?
Has anyone used Lotus Connectors 8.5 with Shared Login enabled? If so did you see any compatibility issues. My current Notes account was added to the Shared Login Policy. Now I'm getting errors when I use the Notes connectors. Any one know of such issues?
@3 No, the same Teamplace/Blog/Wiki templates for now. I agree, it would be great to see more. I know Rob and the team at SNAPPS are working to update their free templates, but they're not available just yet.
@4 Yes, for all non-developers ActiveX is now a thing of the past. You still need it for uploading new themes but that is all. If you want to try it out, best bet is to head to the Greenhouse at { Link }
@5 The new Infocenter/Wiki does a good job. { Link }
@6 No, I haven't so far. Would be interested to see how well this works...
I noticed that you mentioned that there is support for "Custom defined mandatory metadata entry". What about the prepopulation of email metadata (i.e. to, from, subject, etc)? We are getting 8.5 soon, and have FileNet and I was wondering if this was possible.
Cheers
Mal