IBM Workplace Managed Client

	Workplace Managed Client

IBM® Workplace Managed Client™ is one of the selected IBM Workplace software offerings being withdrawn from marketing, effective December 11, 2007.

IBM Lotus continues to innovate and release new collaboration capabilities in response to changing market dynamics and customer needs. IBM Lotus Expeditor software is IBM's universal managed client software to extend composite applications to laptops, desktops, kiosks and mobile devices. See "Highlights" for more information.

IBM Workplace Managed Client supports the following IBM Workplace products:

IBM Workplace products provide the front-end to IBM's service oriented achitecture (SOA) strategy.

IBM Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6 and IBM Workplace Managed Client 2.6 now available
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services 2.6 delivers an integrated collaborative environment that includes a wide range of capabilities like e-mail, calendaring, presence awareness, instant messaging, learning, team spaces, Web conferencing, document and Web content management. The underlying service oriented architecture (SOA) provides a flexible and easy way to deploy just the capabilities any given individual needs.

IBM Workplace Managed Client 2.6 provides an optional rich client user experience. Read more.

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Rich client-side applications enabled by IBM Workplace Managed Client deliver the following:

Rich user experiences with all the functionality of the native desktop client, coupled with improved manageability and easier deployment.
Fast user response for time-sensitive and complex processes with real-time data validation and manipulation.
A strong security model with a local, encrypted data store that synchronizes to a secure, server environment -- providing a "walled garden' to protect against viruses and other security risks.
Flexible integration with desktop productivity applications.
Support for a variety of operating systems and client devices, ranging from traditional PC's, to thinner devices like kiosks and tablets, down to mobile devices like PDA's and Smartphones.
Reusable and consistent user-interface design, where both application content and transactions can be mixed seamlessly.
Single client architecture to execute in both on-line and off-line modes (support for disconnected and connected operations).
Web services enablement, and better interaction between Web services-based applications and the users of those applications.


	Data sheet:IBM Workplace Managed Client v2.6 (139KB)
	White paper: IBM Workplace Client Technology Overview and Business Considerations (94KB)
	Strategy white paper: IBM Workplace Client Technology (307KB)
	Product documentation