What an amazing event at the Burger´s Zoo in Arnhem I was able to attend !

Theo Heselmans and his team again organized a tremendous event in a very special location. Thanks a lot for all of your work – every “Thank You” you received was well-deserved !!

Now on the the content. HCL presented the future of the New Collaboration Solutions with some very great announcements ! The speed of how HCL delivers new features and composes new and – what´s extremely important – integrated solutions is unbelievable !!

Feel free and go through this summary about the upcoming releases – and don´t forget to read the planned enhancements for V12 !!

• Notes V11.0.1
  • SwiftFile will be automatically integrated in the client. This option will help you to organize your mail into the correct folders like in Verse on Premises
  • Attachment viewing
    • From 11.0.1 on an attachment will not be rendered by your Notes client but will be displayed in your default browser
  • Database encryption
    • There´s an option to encrypt local databases by 128-bit AES
  • Setting the background of the workspace via NOTES.INI setting ( and therefore via a policy )
• Domino V11.0.1
  • The AUT ( Auto Update feature ) will support future HCAA upgrades
  • Modifications in the DAOS Tier 2 storage option
  • Domino Web Server support for SNI ( Server Name Indication )
  • New Notes ID´s will automatically have 1024-bit encryption or stronger RSA keys
    • Old ID´s with weaker RSA keys will still work but you should consider to rollover those keys
  • Users coming via the feature “DirSync” from AD can now easily be registered in Domino
  • New JRE ( Java Runtime Environment )
    • openjdk version 1.8.0_242
    • Eclipse Open9 JVM
  • Enhancements in the Domino Query Language ( DQL )
• Sametime V11 FP1
  • All mobile clients will support the Persistant Chat
  • Drag&Drop support for File Transfer
  • And a lot of fixes
  • All that is approximately coming in the End of March 2020
• Verse on Premises 2.0
  • VoP will have the option to “install” a browser based client on your computer just by clicking a “+” sign inside your VoP session.
  • VoP will deliver a new calendar form
  • Better search options by the ability to search using a date range
  • The option “Send and File” will be available where you can directly put your sent mail into a specific folder
  • Full support for HCL Connections 6.5
• HCL Volt
  • In a few days the public beta of HCL Volt is starting. I was able to attend a workshop on Monday and I have to say >> FANTASTIC !!
  • With HCL Volt you’re able to create very well looking web applications in a couple of minutes – without any Developer Knowledge !!
  • 2 Webcast available
    • An Inside Look at HCL Domino Volt Beta Program
    • Domino Volt Is Here: Everything You Need to Know
• HCL Connections
  • This year some CR´s will be released and there will be extremely helpful extensions like
    • Integration of MS Sharepoint in 6.5 CR1/CR2
    • Containerazation of ICEC
    • Full integration of MS O365 for round-trip editing
    • New integrations for Sametime V12

But also the future of HCL Notes/Domino and HCL Connections is looking very, very bright. We saw the future of HCL Notes/Domino V12, HCL Connections V7 with a very clear message to the market: this is how we want to transform the current portfolio on the Desktop:

There are also great enhancements coming on the Server side and on HCL Connections.

• Domino V12
  • Planned for the 1H/2021
  • Two-factor authentication for accessing apps via Web via the Google Authenticator
  • Two-factor authentication for NRPC clients
  • Integration of Let´s encrypt by default
  • Support of Touch ID für MacOS
  • Auto deployment of the ID vault
  • Support of SNI ( Server Name Indicator )
  • New RSA keys in strength of 2048bit created by default when registering users, servers, …
• Sametime V11 Meetings
  • planned for Q2/2020
  • Completely built on Open Source
  • Support for Voice, Video and Screen Sharing
  • All components on one server
  • If you want to participate on the HCL Sametime V11 Mobile Beta you can do that here

And HCL is delivering “HCL SoFy” – the HCL Solution Factory where you’ll be able to run applications in the cloud just by selecting them by click. Combining your selected apps will be done in the background and after this step your application will be ready to use.

Also 2 new HCL Grandmaster have been presented during this great conference

• Bill Malchisky and
• Mitsuru Katoh

Also great applause for both of you !!!

So as a summary it was a pleasure to be part of this great community and you should take the chance to participate in this great event next year !!