CS101: Notes & Domino R8 beta customers
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In the panel were Dale Sinstead from Pioneer Petroleums, Roger Robison from DST Systems, Nathan Freeman from Lotus911, Brooks Jordan from Attensa, Hugh Roddick from Health Canada and Ed Brill moderating
The panel had mainly good expences - ready access to the developers, good hand-holding by the product team to ensure that customers got all the assistance they needed.
The main less favourable experience was from Nathan Freeman who mentioned that it took 4 hours to deploy latest build - but then he was driving and stuck in traffic at the time!
Overall the participants were very keen about the new R8 client - it's certainly more user-centric and designed to be useable and more like what a user would see from a home application
Backwards compatibility to older Notes R5, R6 and R7 applications was welcomed and seen to be seamless.
Ed Brill quote: "Mixed version mode just works"
Activities in R8 is very useful and adds significant business value. Collaboration on things in groups in real-time - without the need to create structured containers to hold the content.
Nathan Freeman quote: "The best thing that has ever happened to Notes"
The panel agreed that the R8 client is going to remove a lot of the "x product looks better and is easier than Notes" arguments.
Nathan Freeman: "Sexy is back"
Deployment of R8 for most will be done as quickly as possible - pretty much as soon as shipped code is available
Application migration was seen as a much lower priority than getting the clients and servers upgraded
The panel's favourite R8 features:
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The WHOLE interface was Dale Sinstead's favourite
Navigation, ease of use
Total interface customizability - move bits of the interface around to suit how one uses the client
More intuitive UI
Roger Robison: "The UI is gonna blow people away"
One interesting comment from a beta tester:
The R8 mail template is working on R6.5 and R7 SERVERS AND NOTES CLIENTS!!!!
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In the panel were Dale Sinstead from Pioneer Petroleums, Roger Robison from DST Systems, Nathan Freeman from Lotus911, Brooks Jordan from Attensa, Hugh Roddick from Health Canada and Ed Brill moderating
The panel had mainly good expences - ready access to the developers, good hand-holding by the product team to ensure that customers got all the assistance they needed.
The main less favourable experience was from Nathan Freeman who mentioned that it took 4 hours to deploy latest build - but then he was driving and stuck in traffic at the time!
Overall the participants were very keen about the new R8 client - it's certainly more user-centric and designed to be useable and more like what a user would see from a home application
Backwards compatibility to older Notes R5, R6 and R7 applications was welcomed and seen to be seamless.
Ed Brill quote: "Mixed version mode just works"
Activities in R8 is very useful and adds significant business value. Collaboration on things in groups in real-time - without the need to create structured containers to hold the content.
Nathan Freeman quote: "The best thing that has ever happened to Notes"
The panel agreed that the R8 client is going to remove a lot of the "x product looks better and is easier than Notes" arguments.
Nathan Freeman: "Sexy is back"
Deployment of R8 for most will be done as quickly as possible - pretty much as soon as shipped code is available
Application migration was seen as a much lower priority than getting the clients and servers upgraded
The panel's favourite R8 features:
Send without attachments or send a link instead popup
The WHOLE interface was Dale Sinstead's favourite
Navigation, ease of use
Total interface customizability - move bits of the interface around to suit how one uses the client
More intuitive UI
Roger Robison: "The UI is gonna blow people away"
One interesting comment from a beta tester:
The R8 mail template is working on R6.5 and R7 SERVERS AND NOTES CLIENTS!!!!
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