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IBM® Lotus Notes® 8 software provides a rich desktop experience that helps users locate, transform, and share content across geographically disbursed teams in real-time. It brings business data, the Internet, and people directly to the user, all integrated together through an intelligent email environment that helps simplify and streamline work by organizing and prioritizing tasks, prompting for actions to take, and connecting directly to information sources.


Features
  • Provides a robust and productive user experience with a single point of access to email, calendars, contacts, activities, instant messaging, feeds, office documents, collaboration tools, and business applications.
  • Helps users manage their ever-growing inboxes effectively, with full-text search, delegation, mail filtering and sorting, conversation views, and flags.
  • Helps increase user productivity with customizable widgets that can recognize specific patterns of text in Lotus Notes documents. Recognized text can be clicked to perform the appropriate business action associated with that widget, such as retrieving information from a flight number in an email.
  • Helps users instantly locate and connect with resources via presence awareness, business cards and instant messaging incorporated, in context, right within the inbox and calendar.
  • Helps minimize or eliminate the impact of computer viruses through robust security features.
  • Helps drive business value through composite application technology that allows you to integrate and present line-of-business solutions and data from multiple systems into a single view for end users.
  • Helps users to be productive even when disconnected from the network with advanced replication technology.

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Demo: Lotus Notes and Domino 8
Features and benefits of Lotus Notes and Domino software (794KB)
License options

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

Lotus Notes for Messaging

Lotus Notes for Messaging — Client desktop software for email, calendar, scheduling, discussion databases, integrated instant messaging and more


Lotus Notes for Collaboration

Lotus Notes for Collaboration — Client desktop software for messaging plus additional collaboration tools and access to custom or vendor applications


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Platforms

Lotus Notes 8 software runs on a wide variety of desktop operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 XGL
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop

See detailed hardware and software requirements for Lotus Notes software.

Additional Lotus Domino client options

Additional client offerings are available to access the capabilities of Lotus Domino software:

IBM Lotus Domino Web Access

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

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler software — Eligible users of Lotus Notes 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).

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Trials and demos
Trials and demos

Trial: Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, and Domino Administrator 8 clients

Trial: Lotus Domino 8

Beta: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5


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