Lotus Application development software

Lotus application development software delivers industry leading technology built upon open platforms and standards to help you build innovative, robust, scalable, and security-rich applications. Learn how client application development software can empower your people, enhance productivity, and meet almost any business requirement.

• Solutions that address your business needs

  For businesses that need to:

  • Optimize information and enable employees to rapidly locate information they need without having to search across multiple sources, composite applications should be considered.
  • Provide employees self-service situational applications to enable them to rapidly adapt to change, develop new insights and to act on new and evolving business opportunities, business mashups should be considered
  • Extend access to information, enable team collaboration and content sharing beyond the desktop to enable workers to get more done on the job while away from the office -anytime, anywhere, allowing users to easily transition between on - and offline environments, mobile applications should be considered

   

  Composite applications combine multiple sources of information into a single, cohesive experience for the end user. A composite application is similar in concept to a mashup, but scaled and deployed to support the robust environment of enterprise applications such as those related to security, policies and more. IBM's composite application technology enables companies to combine business applications, situational applications, collaboration tools, and productivity templates as needed to fulfill business needs.

  Composite applications provide business flexibility for companies and organizations that must rapidly respond to changing demands in today's competitive markets. The components that make up a composite application can be reused in multiple composite applications. This ability enables companies to protect and extend their existing assets with increasing degrees of flexibility, and it allows them to respond quickly and cost effectively to their emerging business requirements with applications that are significantly easier to create than multiple application-development environments.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Notes & Domino
  Benefits:

  • Rapidly assemble and deploy composite applications to support business agility
  • Simplifies the integration of line-of business (LOB) solutions and data
  • Enables end users to access multiple applications (or components) within an aggregated view on their familiar Lotus Notes desktop

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  Solution: IBM WebSphere Portal
  Benefits:

  • Provides a security-rich portal solution to build and deploy personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs
  • Delivers a composite application framework with advanced tooling for building flexible SOA solutions
  • Includes advanced development features to dramatically streamline the entire portlet and Web application development process

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  Solution: IBM Lotus Expeditor
  Benefits:

  • Enables developers to integrate a wide variety of client and server applications in composite applications - to optimize information that employees need to accelerate business processes
  • Extends composite applications to managed clients - online or offline, even for mobile employees
  • Provides a managed client platform, tools, and optional server connectors to rapidly build and deploy connected or semi-connected applications on desktops, laptops, kiosks, PDAs or smart phones.

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  Business mashups enable organizations to unlock and transform enterprise, Web, personal and departmental information into consumable or "mashable" assets, including information feeds and widgets. These assets can then be dynamically assembled, at-the-glass, into new applications that address daily business challenges. And mashup assets can be packaged and reused across multiple applications or websites as needed.

  Business mashups help to reduce the burden on IT, enabling organizations to reduce their application backlog and improve productivity by empowering line of business, self-service application development. They can help to reduce development expense by providing a flexible environment for quickly combining personal, web and enterprise data and content to answer urgent business needs.

  Solution: IBM Mashup Center
  Benefits:

  • Increase agility by fostering the reuse and rapid remixing of content into new, compelling Web applications that address ad-hoc business requirements
  • Enables business users to gain valuable insights and solve business problems more effectively
  • Better align IT and business through rapid prototyping and self-service
  • Extend the reach and value of SOA by helping simplify how services are consumed

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  Mobile applications extend access to information beyond the desktop to enable workers to get more done on the job-away from the office. Mobile applications provide data interaction for users who do not have a continuous connection to the server component or centralized data store. They also help to provide a seamless work environment, allowing users to easily transition between on- and offline environments.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Expeditor
  Benefits:

  • Enables companies with WebSphere Portal to extend SOA-based composite applications to a managed client environment on supported devices
  • Allows Lotus Forms users to have offline forms automatically synched with enterprise applications
  • WebSphere applications can to be used online or offline, leveraging SOA and WebSphere assets
  • Supports server-managed deployment, helping to reduce costs by enabling client applications to be remotely deployed and managed from the server.

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  Solution: IBM WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable
  Benefits:

  • Extends WebSphere Portal applications to a wide range of mobile devices, enabling employees in the field to be productive anywhere, anytime
  • Delivers the promise of "write once, render many" to a broad range of mobile devices with device-independent authoring
  • Provides a cost-effective way for content and application providers to deliver revenue-producing content and services, and minimize the complexity of integration

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Rapid application development helps decrease time-to-market for your Web, portal, and Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications. Learn how Lotus software offers easy-to-use tools combined with customized, task-oriented perspectives, providing a development experience that makes it easy for novice developers, procedural developers, and expert Java EE developers.

• Solutions that address your business needs

  For businesses that need to:

  • Capture information more efficiently and enable their organization to more quickly access and utilize Web, personal and departmental information to address daily business challenges, eForms and productivity tools should be considered.
  • Speed automation of forms-based business processes and help integrate data with existing IT systems, workflow solutions should be considered
  • Deliver advanced capabilities over the Web and within applications to make end-user experience richer, faster and more efficient, rich Internet applications (RIAs) should be considered

   

  eForms and productivity tools help organizations of all sizes to accelerate process automation efforts, increase efficiencies, and reduce operational costs. Electronic forms (eForms) can help facilitate data integration with existing IT systems and makes it easy to extend business processes to customers with web-based electronic forms. Open standards-based business productivity tools allow users to helps users create, edit and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Forms / IBM Business Process Accelerator
  Benefits:

  • Delivers exceptional ease of use when creating eForms
  • Extend forms-based business processes both inside and outside an organization - without requiring additional software download
  • Provides advanced, security-rich digital signing and authentication based on industry standards

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  Solution: IBM Mashup Center
  Benefits:

  • Enables rapid creation of widgets without coding
  • Allows users to simply point-and-click using a wizard-based interface to create consumable feeds
  • Delivers a browser-based assembly tool so end users can quickly and easily assemble new mashups by dragging and dropping widgets onto the page

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  Solution: IBM Lotus Symphony
  Benefits:

  • Available at no charge, helping companies reduce costs of existing productivity tools
  • Provides an easy-to-use and intuitive user interface that allows users to launch productivity applications and access open files from a single tabbed home page
  • Enables users to import, edit, and save content in Microsoft® Office formats or export documents to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions
  • Can convert documents, spreadsheets, and presentations into Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files

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  Workflow solutions enable businesses to align and integrate their resources and capabilities with their organization's strategies. Workflow application development tools can accelerate process flow, reduce costs, eliminate errors, and improve workflow performance. Workflow management improves the efficiency of your organization by orchestrating and automating the steps within your processes.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Workflow
  Benefits:

  • Enables mission-critical workflow applications to be supported, maintained and rolled out across the enterprise and quickly modified as processes evolve
  • Provides a flexible platform for automating, refining and managing complex people-based business processes
  • Enables you to use the Web to manage business processes for your enterprise more effectively, saving you time and helping improve employee productivity

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  Solution: IBM Lotus Forms
  Benefits:

  • Provides exceptional ease of use when creating eForms
  • Extends forms-based business processes both inside and outside an organization - without requiring additional software download
  • Provides advanced, security-rich digital signing and authentication based on industry standards

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  Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) help organizations modernize their web presence and take advantage of the power of Web 2.0 technologies. The new era of Internet applications emphasizes online collaboration, community formation and sharing amongst users. With rich Internet applications, organizations can connect people and amplify the power of working together.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Domino
  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

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  Solution: IBM Lotus Domino Designer
  Benefits:

  • Extends your existing investment in Lotus and IBM Lotus Domino
  • Provides collaborative technology with rapid creation and deployment of new applications and reusable components
  • Enables business users to create and modify processes using composite applications
  • Expand access to enterprise systems data across platforms to adapt more quickly to organizational changes.

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  Solution: IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
  Benefits:

  • Rapid portlet development tool for WebSphere Portal applications, enabling developers to easily create, customize, deploy, and maintain portlets
  • Build feature rich user interfaces using drag & drop, in-line editing, tooltips, directory search, contextual menu, and intelligent page refreshing.
  • Create cooperative portlets for a richly integrated portal experience by enabling portlets to interact and share relevant information, even if they are accessing data from disparate databases and systems.

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Tools adopted and deployed appropriately can mean greater efficiency, higher productivity and optimized collaboration between individuals and teams. Learn how Lotus software accelerates personal productivity by helping to make people more productive in the context of the work they do everyday, where business processes move faster and communities of expertise form and knowledge is shared.

• Solutions that address your business needs

  For businesses that need to:

  • To harness the collective knowledge of their employees, partners, and customers by building dynamic new connections between people, the expertise they have and the tasks they are executing, social software tools should be considered.
  • Communicate and work together in realtime, reduce travel costs by using online Web conferences to share presentations and documents and find and access expertise and knowledge instantly throughout your organization, realtime communications solutions should be considered

   

  Social software tools adopted and deployed appropriately can mean greater efficiency, higher productivity and optimized collaboration between individuals and teams. Personal productivity is about making people more productive in the context of the work they do everyday. In order to do that, Lotus application development tools enable teams to communicate and share more effectively. Business processes move faster, communities of expertise form and knowledge can be shared.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Connections
  Benefits:

  • Enables tasks to be executed faster with quick access to information from an expanded professional network
  • Reduces time spent finding answers and supporting information and raises confidence in decision making by having the right information on hand
  • Helps users avoid wasting time by re-creating information that already existed within the organization
  • Provides agility in teaming and a sense of community when working with colleagues despite differences in time zone or organizational affiliation

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  Solution: IBM Lotus Quickr
  Benefits:

  • Enables project teams and work groups to work more effectively, including teams that span multiple geographies, time zones and that include external members
  • Helps eliminate or reduce duplication of efforts and content inconsistencies
  • Provides ability to share, access and collaborate on team content that is the most up-to-date
  • Supports integration with existing IT infrastructure to aid in faster adoption, lower admin costs and higher return on existing IT investments

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  Realtime communications software can help people in any organization to collaborate and share ideas faster to help stimulate growth, the opportunity to take action and make informed decisions and the power to do their jobs better, every day. Today's most innovative ISVs and corporate developers seek to develop applications and solutions that can be easily integrated within multi-vendor IT and communications infrastructures - including telephony, audio, video and web conferencing - and deliver a unified user experience that meets the needs of both desktop and mobile workers.

  Solution: IBM Lotus Sametime
  Benefits:

  • Provides an open and extensible platform for building realtime and collaborative applications
  • Allows for easy integration so you can continually enrich and extend the value of applications and business processes
  • Leverages an open, standards-based framework that allows easy creation, deployment and management of new value-add plug-ins applications
  • Runs on a range of client and server operating systems so you have the flexibility to preserve and enhance your communications and collaboration infrastructure while providing users with choice
  • Helps control and manage the use of unsecured public IM networks

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