Features and benefits

IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer software is a highly productive application development environment that benefits cost conscience IT departments by enabling the rapid development and deployment of scalable and security-rich collaborative or workflow-driven business applications. Developers can integrate assets from across IT systems and provide application access through many different types of clients and devices.

With Lotus Domino Designer software, you can build applications that support a wide variety of critical business processes, for example:

• Team / Community Discussion Forums

• Workflow management

• Document Storage and Collaboration

• Help Desk / Customer Support

• Project Management

• Customer Relationship Management

• Sales Force Automation

• Product development

• Human Resources

• Billing Systems

• Compliancy Tracking, Audit and Assessment

• Inventory Management / Supply Chain Tracking

Lotus Domino Designer software is freely available to all developers on IBM developerWorks.
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To deploy applications developed with Lotus Domino Designer to Lotus Domino software, you must purchase the Lotus Domino Enterprise Client Access License offering for all supported users.

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Lotus Domino Designer software helps your organization respond with speed to aggressively embrace new business opportunities, economic conditions, and market demands with business applications:

• Rapidly develop and deploy new business critical applications that meet your companies requirement and allow your IT budget to go farther.

• Provide a variety of client device and platform options which allow companies to meet the varied end user expectations for application access.

• Exploit the benefits of new technology trends such as Web 2.0 and social media networks into your enterprise.

• Empower users with the right information at the time they need it by quickly mashing together the user interfaces of existing assets across and beyond the enterprise into composite applications.

• Minimize development costs by leveraging out-of-the-box application templates and existing developer skills and resources.

Lotus Domino Designer software integrates many features that help minimize time needed to bring new applications to market and save development costs by reusing existing assets and skills.

• Use GUI-driven, point-and-click capabilities to quickly develop security-rich applications that end users are able to access from Lotus Notes clients, Web browsers, business portals and mobile devices.

• Integrate security-rich features across many different levels of an applications – right down to individual fields.

• Incorporate workflow capabilities for approval-driven processes.

• Novice developers can customize applications based on supplied templates, while advanced developers can use the more robust programming features to address special requirements.

• Add presence awareness and instant messaging capabilities to the Lotus Notes and Web applications they build to make it easier for end users to interact with other team members in real time.

• Utilize Web services to expose Lotus Domino applications to external systems such as Java Platform,Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Microsoft® .NET applications. And use Web services from external sources within Lotus Domino applications in many different contexts.

• Choice of programming languages helps you choose the most appropriate skill levels for creating a full range of productivity and collaborative applications.