Client Benefits:

  • Security-rich access to email, calendar and    collaborative applications;

  • Remain productive even when disconnected;

  • Seamless integration with collaborative   applications and business document authoring    tools;

Server Benefits:

  • Flexibility & choice in supported hardware platform, operating system, directory & client access;

  • Supports Web services and open standards;

  • High availability with advanced clustering and transaction logging;

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are the quality standard for email, calendaring and collaborative applications.  With over 125 million licenses sold, Notes is a leading global IT platform.  It serves as the integrated messaging and calendar application for tens of thousands of customers, but deliver far “more than mail” capabilities for many customers, including advanced team collaboration and activities management, and a large library of collaborative applications.

With almost two decades in market, Domino and Notes have proven their strengths in enterprise scaling and security.  At the same time, Domino has embraced and integrated all of the major programming methods and standards that have been introduced.  With rich support for Java, .net, Web services and other Internet technologies, Domino is a first-class participant in the IBM middleware family.

Improvements to the Notes client:

Lotus and IBM desktop products are being updated to exploit the latest user experience technology.  Major products such as Notes 8 and Sametime are built atop the Eclipse rich client platform (RCP) – or specifically the version of Eclipse RCP that IBM has extended with enterprise-grade management, security and programmability features and markets as IBM Lotus Expeditor.  The next-generation common platform is a server managed client with integrated real-time communications.