IBM instant messaging tools in Lotus Notes and Domino
Posted: 7 October 2003
IBM integrates instant messaging tools into new Lotus Notes
and Domino, blending popular collaboration solutions
New Features in Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 Help Increase User Productivity
and Manage Costs; Collaboration Tools to Be Provided at No Additional
Charge
IBM Corporation announced the Middle East availability of IBM Lotus
Notes and Domino 6.5, one of the industry's leading messaging and
collaboration platforms.
The latest version of Lotus Notes and Domino integrates IBM Lotus
Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing functionality, giving users
on- line "awareness" capabilities and the ability to initiate
instant messaging (IM) sessions directly from their in-box or from
within a collaborative application. While both Lotus Notes and Domino
and Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing can be purchased
separately, IBM also announced a limited-time promotion for Notes
and Domino 6.5 customers.
“In today's corporate environment, businesses want their
messaging solution to go beyond just e-mail – they want their
messaging solution to be part of a larger collaborative platform.
Many Middle East organisations are just getting used to email –
with this new functionality, they can now build true real-time collaboration
into their organisation’s culture,” said Bashar Kilani,
IBM Software Group Manager Middle East, Egypt and Pakistan. “Lotus
Notes and Domino 6.5 will continue to give customers the security
features and performance they have come to expect from IBM, while
also providing an exciting entrée to the Lotus Workplace
platform and its business benefits.”
IBM has designed the new version of Lotus Notes and Domino with
integrated IM capabilities to help end-users manage the increasing
volume of electronic information and the increased speed of business.
By blending one of the industry's leading messaging and collaboration
platforms with one of the industry's leading corporate IM solutions,
IBM has created a collaborative solution designed to help maintain
employee productivity and help companies more quickly respond to
the needs of their customers and market opportunities.
In addition to new collaborative features and functions, IBM is
continuing to expand support for open standards as a way to manage
the costs associated with messaging and collaboration technology.
Expanded support for Linux, including Domino Web Access and Domino
for Linux on IBM zSeries eServer, gives Lotus Notes and Domino customers
additional flexibility and helps drive down the total cost of ownership.
IBM's support for Linux demonstrates a complete end-to-end vision
for collaboration on Linux, and extends to both client-side and
server-side software.
The end-to-end portfolio gives our customers a broad choice of
rich-featured Linux-based solutions for their business needs.
Lotus Notes 6.5 is the first release of Lotus Notes to embrace
IBM's new Lotus Workplace strategy for integrating people with business
processes.
The Lotus Notes 6.5 interface provides a unified entry point into
various collaborative applications and capabilities. Users can access
collaborative tools such as messaging, instant messaging, search
and calendaring & scheduling, along with other applications
and capabilities right from the Lotus Notes 6.5 client, rather than
as separate applications.
The Lotus Workplace vision is to help combine employee productivity
seamlessly with business processes, and to serve as the "front
end" of IBM's On Demand strategy by arming customers with the
collaborative tools they need to help react to market opportunities,
customer demands and competitive threats.
Lotus Notes and Domino will be an integral part of the Lotus Workplace
strategy going forward.
For more information on the Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 product family,
please visit www.ibm.com/lotus/messaging.
About IBM
IBM is the world’s largest information technology company,
with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM
offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that
enable telecommunications service providers and equipment suppliers
to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.
For more information see www.ibm.com.
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