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About IBM Lotus Notes

With business needs in mind, Lotus Notes provides a messaging and collaboration platform with an intuitive environment. Lotus Notes integrates the highest priority information sources — including e-mail, calendaring, scheduling, to do list and more — within a proven, reliable messaging environment. Notes helps to maximize value and can reduce total cost of ownership, by offering a highly intuitive user interface, with built-in streamlined administration and management functionality. Notes delivers outstanding performance, easily grows with your business needs and provides dependable security features. And importantly, the Notes client can improve usability and significantly increase end-user productivity.

Notes

As an integrated collaborative environment, Lotus Notes combines enterprise-class messaging and calendaring & scheduling capabilities with a platform for collaborative applications. With Lotus Notes , we have focused on improving features and adding more functionality without materially altering the Lotus Notes user interface. This approach is geared toward improved productivity for Lotus Notes users without requiring companies to retrain users. The proven messaging and collaboration engine remains at the core of Notes, and Lotus Notes makes it easier to use, easier to customize, more flexible, and simpler to deploy and administer.

IBM Lotus Notes integrates your highest-priority information resources — e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, journal, to-do lists, Web pages, databases — all within a proven, reliable messaging environment. Enhancements with this release offer more customization options, such as color-coding e-mails and calendar entries, rearranging columns, changing sort order and selecting your favorite calendar view. Improved attachment handling and selective replication mean Notes users have more flexibility to access, process and manage information, while saving on storage space. These enhancements, built on existing Notes functionality, mean users can increase productivity without any training.

Calendaring and scheduling functionality is significantly improved in Notes , with emphasis on increasing user productivity by allowing users to perform more actions directly in the calendar view. An improved scheduling form allows users to complete one comprehensive, easy-to-use form that neatly captures the many details required when scheduling meetings, appointments or reminders. Additional enhancements provide administrative assistants more management tools to create meeting invitations and view calendar details for one or more executives.

With Lotus Notes , many tasks execute in the background — reducing wait time and helping to increase end-user productivity and satisfaction. Users can detach documents, poll for new mail, replicate and queue print jobs — all while performing other important tasks. Background replication and the ability to selectively replicate databases, documents, views or folders supports user multitasking and increases network efficiency. The Lotus Notes client also leverages the benefits of streamlined management and administration capabilities in IBM Lotus Domino by centralizing management of many client settings like security settings, desktop settings and archiving.

Highlights of Notes

• 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
• Includes hundreds of enhancements to increase ease-of-use, including background attachment handling, multi-user support and customization options
• Provides industry-leading calendaring and scheduling functionality, which let users easily collaborate and schedule meetings with colleagues across the world
• Helps reduce total cost of ownership with minimal training, end user productivity enhancements and built-in management and administration functionality