Collaboration tools help teams work smarter together. Lotus software helps teams and organizations around the world work smarter every day. You can use Lotus software for teaching and research related to social networking and mashups, portals and dashboards, e-mail and calendaring applications, and more.
Overview
Lotus software delivers robust collaboration tools that empower people to connect, collaborate, and innovate while optimizing the way they work.
If your curriculum would benefit from collaboration tools and social software for instant messaging, Web conferencing, team collaboration, and content management, then you should consider using IBM Lotus software in your classroom and labs.
Lotus has an array of resources to help you learn about these products, courseware and teaching tools to help you bring the concepts into the classroom, and software that you can make available to your students for labs, workshops, and team projects.
Learn the basics
Select the Lotus product that fits your teaching needs and explore our resources to learn about this product. Be sure to return to the Academic Initiative site to download full-version Lotus software and courseware at no charge.
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E-mail, calendaring and collaborative applications: Lotus Notes and Domino
Lotus Notes features an integrated desktop client for IBM Lotus Domino e-mail, calendar, group scheduling, and applications.
Lotus Domino offers a world-class server platform for e-mail, scheduling, and collaboration applications.
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Social computing: Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr
Lotus Connections offers social software including blogs, communities, profiles, activities and shared bookmarks.
Lotus Quickr provides team collaboration software with a rich set of content and team services to help you collaborate and work faster online with your teams.
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Web 2.0 and mashups: Lotus Mashups
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Portals and dashboards: IBM WebSphere Portal
Explore further
Learn more about Lotus products.
Get trained
Take advantage of our no-charge training opportunites to learn about Lotus products and prepare yourself to use them in your classrooms and labs.
- Virtual Innovation Center: Academic Initiative members have access to over 800 professionally developed courses on all IBM products and technologies, 24/7, at the Virtual Innovation Center (VIC). They can take the courses online while connected, or download them and take them when you are off-line.
- IBM Education Assistant: The IBM Education Assistant is a collection of multimedia educational modules that can help you gain a better understanding of IBM products and use them more effectively.
- On demand demos: These quick product walk-throughs range from installation and setup demos for beginners, to advanced functionality for experienced developers.
- developerWorks Live! briefings: developerWorks Live! briefings are worldwide, always free, and cover the latest topics related to IBM software and technologies. Find briefings in your area.
Explore further
IBM offers many training and certification resources at a fee. Academic Initiative members can request a 50% discount for themselves and their students on some IBM Professional Certification tests at Thompson Prometric Centers. Explore our other training and certification opportunities.
