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Lotus Domino

Features and benefits

IBM® Lotus® Domino® software provides world-class collaboration capabilities that can be deployed as a core e-mail and enterprise scheduling infrastructure, as a business application platform, or both.

Lotus Domino software and its client software options deliver a reliable, security-rich messaging and collaboration environment that helps companies enhance the productivity of people, streamline business processes and improve overall business responsiveness.

Benefits

Extends messaging with built-in collaboration tools
Offers flexibility and choice in hardware platform, operating system, directory and client access
Provides industry leading security features to help safeguard business-critical information
Can help you reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) by efficiently using CPU resources, network bandwidth and disk storage
Maximizes server availability with advanced clustering, transaction logging, server fault recovery, and automated diagnostic tools
Helps reduce time and costs associated with deploying and managing your infrastructure, through advanced administration features
Supports Web services and open standards and offers tools for integration with existing applications
Can contribute to rapid return on investment (ROI) with Lotus Domino software-powered solutions for your business processes, such as Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain, and Project Tracking


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Features

Choose Lotus Domino features that are right for your business from the following offerings:

Lotus Domino Messaging Server — server for business e-mail, calendar, scheduling, discussion databases and more

Lotus Domino Enterprise Server — messaging server plus highly available platform to run custom or vendor applications

Lotus Domino Utility Server — option for deploying non-mail collaborative applications inside and outside your company

If your company has 1000 employees or fewer, you may want to consider IBM Lotus Domino Express offerings.

Client options

Several client license options are available for users to access the capabilities of Lotus Domino software:

IBM Lotus Notes® software — World class e-mail, calendar, scheduling, collaboration, and business mashups.

IBM Lotus Domino Web Access software — A flexible, high-function Web browser-based client option to use the reliable, security-rich messaging and collaboration capabilities of IBM Lotus Domino software, online and offline.

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler software — Eligible users of Lotus Notes 8.0.1 software and Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0.1 software may request entitlement to a new wireless e-mail option, called Lotus Notes Traveler, which provides real-time synchronization of Lotus Domino e-mail and PIM data on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 or 6 mobile device (smartphone or Pocket PC).

Platforms

Lotus Domino software runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, IBM z/OS®, IBM i5/OS®, IBM AIX®, Linux, and Sun Solaris.

Learn more: Detailed hardware and software requirements for Lotus Domino software.