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IBM® Lotus Notes® 8 software delivers a compelling new user experience with enhancements to existing core functions, complemented by new functionality that can help you increase effectiveness, improve efficiency, and speed your decision making processes.
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- 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).
- My Widgets sidebar panel, providing quick and easy access to various widgets that perform relevant business actions -- launched stand-alone via the sidebar or from recognized Live Text in Lotus Notes documents.
- Integrated presence awareness and instant messaging capabilities provided by IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0 software.
- Updated 'Activities' sidebar plug-in that supports IBM Lotus Connections 1.0.2 software, helping to organize projects and tasks, and coordinate with teams.
- Integration with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 software, allowing users to manage and share document attachments, helping improve team collaboration and communication.
- Support for Citrix® Presentation Server™ 4.5.
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Cool new interface
- Showcases a fresh, yet intuitive user interface so that current Lotus Notes users can upgrade seamlessly.
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- Access data from multiple business applications right within the Lotus Notes client, so you don't have to spend time switching back and forth between different applications.
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- Access mail, calendar, contacts, to-do list, a personal journal, and a set of productivity tools through a new default welcome page, customizable to the user's preference.
- Quickly open applications and traditional Lotus Notes databases via an always available, searchable 'Open' list.
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- Plug various tools and applications into a new sidebar that provides quick and easy access to the information you need use most. Four plug-ins supplied with the Lotus Notes 8 client let you access integrated instant messaging, feeds, day-at-a glance calendar, and activities (through an optional activities server) out-of-the-box through the sidebar. You can also create and plug in custom or third party applications.
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- All preferences are configured from a single location, including those associated with locations, instant messaging, activities, and the productivity tools.
- Open documents as individual tabs, grouped by related tabbed windows, or opened in individual windows. All open documents can be easily navigated via a thumbnail view.
- Use toolbars associated with the activities to which they relate, appearing within each individual Lotus Notes tab rather than grouped directly below the menubar.
- Search email, calendar, directories, and the Web using popular search engines with a single, centrally located search center.
- Identify, assess, and overcome product difficulties quickly without needing to contact IBM support via IBM Support Assistant that is integrated directly into the Lotus Notes 8 client.
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Easy email navigation and management
- Preview to your email with either horizontal or vertical preview panes.
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- Quickly access common actions within a single click, such as create new email, reply-to, and mail views.
- Gather email threads together so that you don't need to search through your inbox for the rest of a conversation. View and manage your inbox by topic or conversation rather than by fragmented messages.
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- Bring recent contacts to the top of your type-ahead list as you address your emails, helping speed up the process while eliminating potential addressing mistakes.
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- See a consolidated list of all collaborations you've had with an individual, including email in your inbox, meetings in your calendar, and instant messages stored in your chat history.
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- Configure email headers to show only information that is useful to you.
- Turn on instant spell checking to highlight and suggest corrections for misspelled words as you type in rich text fields.
- Retrace your steps through more than 50 levels of undo during email or any Lotus Notes document editing.
- Sort lengthy email recipient lists so you can quickly see whether a specific individual was included.
- Recall email sent in error or to the wrong recipients.
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Calendar and scheduling flexibility
- See unprocessed meeting invitations in your calendar alongside other meetings and appointments, illustrating schedule overlaps before accepting an invitation.
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- Optionally keep a record of canceled invitations in your calendar, rather than in your inbox.
- Easily see all day events displayed over the whole day, with event title at the top of the page, making it obvious at a glance that this time is already scheduled without scrolling.
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- Quickly access common actions within a single click, such as Accept or Decline an invitation.
- Check your schedule while you are creating a meeting invitation, providing quick access to your currently planned events and tasks. Or use the sidebar calendar for a quick check of your schedule.
- Easily find available times for invitations by selecting only a subset of required attendees. Unchecked attendees are ignored when searching for free time.
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Detailed contact management
- See your contacts in a business card view that allows you to quickly scan basic contact information without having to open the associated form.
- Store and view photographs of your contacts for a more personalized view.
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- Select from multiple formats available for country specific formatting of addresses.
- Store a wide variety of personal data within an expanded Contact form. See a simplified view of your contacts by suppressing contact fields that contain no data.
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Enhanced Out of Office management
- Configure whether Out of Office notifications are sent in response to every message that a person sends or only to the first message.
- Delegate out office management to those that administer your calendar.
- Set the hour at which you will be leaving and returning to the office.
- Out of Office notification is disabled automatically when the Out of Office time period expires.
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Integrated collaboration tools
- Create, manage, edit and import text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with integrated productivity tools which support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard.
- Quickly and easily create team work areas to organize and share information to collaborate on a project, without needing to involve the IT staff with an optional activities server (part of Lotus Connections software).
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Business mashups
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Easily integrate line of business (LOB) solutions and data into new types of applications called composite applications that aggregate components on the screen to present content from multiple systems in a single interface for users.
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