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IBM Lotus Notes continues to set the standard for innovation in the messaging and collaboration market Lotus defined over a decade ago. As an integrated collaborative environment, the Lotus Notes client and the IBM Lotus Domino server combine enterprise-class messaging and calendaring & scheduling capabilities with a robust platform for collaborative applications.

Lotus Notes is available in two offerings: Notes for Messaging (access to messaging functions only) and Notes for Collaboration (both messaging and applications). Either option allows you to take advantage of advanced functionality, reliable performance and rich security features - and help reduce your total cost of ownership in the process.

Code-named “Hannover” this next release of Lotus Notes will enable users to connect with business processes, J2EE-based business applications, and traditional collaboration functions like calendaring & scheduling -- all in a streamlined, more simplified manner. Read more

  Benefits

• Integrates your most valuable messaging, collaborative and personal information management (PIM) resources—like e-mail, calendar, to-do list—to allow users to access them while connected with or disconnected from your network

• Gives users a single, unified access point to the tools, tasks and the people users work with - through the new Lotus Workplace for Notes welcome page Integrates Lotus Instant Messaging functionality to provide presence awareness and enable users to initiate chats with colleagues—without launching a separate application

• Maximizes responsiveness and ease of use through follow-up function and visual indicators to show users when they’ve forwarded or replied to e-mail messages

• Provides industry-leading calendaring and scheduling functionality, which lets users easily collaborate and schedule meetings with colleagues across the world

• Helps reduce total cost of ownership through minimal training requirements, end-user productivity enhancements and built-in management function like Smart Upgrade

  Lotus Notes 6.5 Product Information

• Lotus Notes 6.5 system requirements

• Lotus Notes spec sheet (pdf)

• Lotus Notes for Macintosh spec sheet (pdf)

• IBM PC OEM entitlement

• IBM Workplace messaging product family guide (264KB) (pdf)

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IBM Lotus Domino

IBM Lotus Domino server software combines enterprise-class messaging and calendar/ scheduling capabilities with a robust platform for collaborative applications on a wide variety of operating systems. The Lotus Domino Server is available in three offerings: Domino Messaging Server (messaging only), Domino Utility Server (applications only), and Domino Enterprise Server (both messaging and applications).

IBM Lotus Notes is workstation (client) software that provides an integrated collaborative environment. It is one of the client options, listed below, for users to access the messaging and collaboration capabilities of the Lotus Domino server.

Available for midsized businesses, IBM Lotus Domino Express offerings deliver enterprise-class messaging and collaboration capabilities to companies that employ fewer than 1000 people - with offerings packaged and priced to meet the needs of midsized businesses.

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  Benefits

• Offers flexibility and choice in hardware platform and operating system.

• Provides industry leading security as the foundation of the Domino server.

• Maximizes server availability with clustering, transaction logging, server fault recovery, and automated diagnostic tools.

• Helps reduce time and costs for software deployment and configuration using Notes Smart Upgrade and Domino Policy Based Administration.

• Allows administrators to manage SPAM - so users don't have to.

• Can help you reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) by efficiently using system resources such as network bandwidth and disk storage.

• Can contribute to rapid return on investment (ROI) with Domino powered solutions for your business processes, such as HelpDesk, CRM, Supply Chain, and Project Tracking.

  Product information

Lotus Domino 6.5.x

• System requirements

• Spec sheet (pdf)

• On Linux

• On IBM iSeries

• On IBM zSeries

Client options

• Lotus Notes

• Lotus Domino Web Access

• Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook

• Lotus Domino WebMail

Application development

• Lotus Domino Designer

• Lotus Enterprise Integrator

• Lotus Domino Connectors

• Lotus Workflow

Mobile and wireless access

• Lotus Domino Unified Communications

• Lotus EasySync Pro

• Lotus Domino Everyplace

• WebSphere Everyplace Access for Lotus Domino

Complementary products

• Lotus Domino Document Manager

• Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime)

• Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace)

• Lotus Learning Management System

• Lotus Virtual Classroom

• Lotus Web Conferencing

• Lotus Extended Search

• IBM Workplace Web Content Management, Domino Edition

Lotus Domino Web Access

IBM Lotus Domino Web Access is a sophisticated Web client that gives end users leading Domino messaging and collaboration features that were previously available only with a Lotus Notes client. Get all with the reliability and security features of IBM Lotus Domino server -- delivered through a Web browser.

Lotus Domino Web Access is available in two offerings: Domino Web Access for Messaging (access to messaging functions only) and Domino Web Access for Collaboration (both messaging and applications).

Whether one of your users is at an Internet kiosk or another user's PC, and whether online or disconnected from the network, that user can get ubiquitous, authenticated access to supported Lotus Domino data -- including e-mail, calendar, to-do list, personal contacts and notebook.

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  Benefits

• Lets you access Lotus Domino on a Linux server, from a Linux desktop, giving you a leading-edge, end-to-end collaborative solution for Linux

• Integrates Lotus Instant Messaging function to provide presence awareness and enable users to initiate chats with colleagues—without launching a separate application

• Helps users block junk e-mail from display in their mailboxes—reducing distractions and increasing productivity

• Helps reduce total cost of ownership through rapid, no-touch browser access and deployment—and with a minimal need for training

• Provides a security-rich environment to help protect your business-critical information

• Delivers sophisticated Web messaging and PIM with an unmatched feature set and easy-to-use interface

• Provides full disconnected support to answer your e-mail or view your calendar through Domino Off-Line Services

  Product information

• System requirements

• Spec sheet (pdf)

• Comparison: Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2003, Domino Web Access 6.5

• IBM Workplace messaging product family guide (264KB) (pdf)

What is Domino?

Lotus Domino is an environment... middleware ... an infrastructure that can enhance communications within your company and with your strategic partners. Domino is about people working together effectively.

Why choose iSeries as your Domino server?

iSeries is designed for the end-to-end integration that businesses need to succeed with collaborative and business-to-business applications... and it offers speedy deployment at an affordable price.

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Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook

Enhance Your Messaging Infrastructure Without Disrupting Your Users
IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 (or higher) provides an excellent solution for businesses looking to migrate from Microsoft Exchange, but don’t want to retrain their users. Now your employees can continue using their existing Outlook client for messaging, calendar and scheduling, and personal information management (PIM) services, but you can replace your Microsoft Exchange server infrastructure with scalable and reliable IBM Lotus Domino servers, running on the hardware and supported operating system of your choice, including Linux.

Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.4, available March 29, 2005, offers performance enhancements and adds support for X.509 and S/MIME, single sign-on, locked-down desktop, Notes mail decryption on receive, new mail notification features and more.

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  Benefits

• Let users continue using their Outlook client with no retraining - Continue to read your mail, perform calendar and scheduling tasks, and manage PIM data but with the added benefits of Domino  network  security, replication, and clustering.

• Install easily using standard MSI technology - Easily update users desktops using your company's standard software delivery system.

• Migrate to security-rich, reliable, and scalable Domino servers - Take control of your messaging infrastructure. Reduce unwanted SPAM.

• Use the server platform and directory right for your company - Run Lotus Domino servers on multiple hardware platforms and software operating systems, as well as multiple LDAP directories.

• Reduce your network traffic - Transport messages throughout your infrastructure using Domino's advanced streaming replication and built in data compression.

  Product information

• System requirements

• Spec sheet (pdf)

• Feature comparison matrix (6.5.1) (xls)

• Feature comparison matrix (6.5.3)

• Web access feature comparison matrix

• IBM Workplace messaging product family guide (264KB) (pdf)

Lotus EasySync Pro

IBM Lotus® EasySync® Pro lets you synchronize your IBM Lotus Notes® e-mail, calendar, tasks, contacts and journal information between Lotus Notes and supported market-leading personal data assistants (PDAs). You can access your most critical Lotus Notes technology-based information anywhere, without the need to carry a laptop computer. And EasySync Pro lets you conveniently capture new information about meetings and contacts—even compose and manage e-mail—while away from your PC.

  Benefits

• Synchronizes your IBM Lotus Notes e-mail, calendar, tasks, contacts and journal with your PDA

• Lets you choose which information you want to upload to your Lotus Notes desktop and download to your PDA

• Allows you to choose to synchronize bidirectionally, upload only or download only for any category of information

• Determines your current Lotus Notes location setting so it can automatically synchronize with the mail database on your desktop or with its replica on your IBM Lotus Domino mail server

• Lets you read, reply to and manage your e-mail while away from your PC by synchronizing your Lotus Notes inbox with the e-mail application on your supported PDA

  Product information

Overview

System requirements

FAQ

Spec sheet

Lotus Domino Everyplace

IBM Lotus® Domino Everyplace™ software is a complete wireless solution that gives mobile IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino™ users access to their e-mail, calendars, to-do lists, directories and other applications from virtually anywhere, at any time. Domino Everyplace software supports multiple mobile devices, including personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones and pagers, from a single platform.

  Benefits

• Extends personal information management (PIM) data to supported mobile or wireless devices, including PDAs, pagers and mobile phones
• Integrates with your existing Domino infrastructure
• Provides online access to critical business information using a mobile device
• Helps you centrally manage user information, mobile devices and wireless network connections
• Enables supported mobile devices to send and receive notifications from any Domino server-based application
• Provides robust tools that can help you easily create mobile applications

  Product information

Overview

System requirements

FAQ

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