IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 software helps you get work done quickly, providing you with a single point of access to help create, discover, and share knowledge, collaborate with teams, and take action. As traditional boundaries around work disappear, Lotus Notes 8.5.1 software helps connect you to people and information throughout the enterprise and across the Internet.
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What's new in Lotus Notes 8.5.1 software
- IBM makes it easier than ever to bring collaboration tools to your employees – when and where they need it. It's simple – you choose the capabilities they need, and select the IBM offering below that provides them. That's it. No longer do you need to pick and choose from individual software offerings – you choose the offering that meets your requirements, and IBM delivers.
- Take control of your email through integration with Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 software, allowing users to manage personal allow and block lists right within the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 inbox.
- Quickly create a meeting invitations by dragging an email from the inbox into the day-at-a-glance calendar. The meeting invitees are copied from the email To: and CC: lists, the meeting subject is copied from the email subject, the meeting description is set to the email body – reducing the need to copy and paste between documents.
- Save time when resizing with tables in email by simply dragging and dropping table corners.
- Take action quickly on a meeting invitation on the action bar within the preview pane, eliminating the need to fully open the invitation.
- Find information directly through Widgets and Live Text support on the Linux and Apple Mac OS platforms.
Learn more about Lotus Notes 8.5.1 features in the Lotus Design blog
What's new in Lotus Notes 8.5 software
Socialize
- Share Lotus Notes documents with colleagues in the same way you share web pages through social bookmarks, and discover bookmarks that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.¹
- Tap into the knowledge capital within your organization and expand personal networks through profile searching where you can find details on people, for example their organization, location, reporting structure and interests.¹
- Grow domain knowledge through new terms and concepts defined by examining search results that others have found useful.¹
- Find information directly through Widgets and Live Text support on the Linux and Apple Mac OS platforms.
Connect
- Maintain greater control over your schedule as the line between work and life outside of work continues to blur. Lotus Notes 8.5 software integrates various personal and professional calendars into a single view. Users can subscribe to iCal-based calendars and calendars in activities (meetings and to-dos associated with your current activities)¹, and view their complete schedules in one, easy to use interface.
- Share contacts across platforms that support the vcard file format, allowing users to exchange business contacts quickly.
Access
- Make your operating system choice, separate from your collaboration tool choice. Lotus Notes 8.5 adds support for the Apple Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and Ubuntu platforms.
- Provide broader support for roaming users, for example students and business center users, and reduce the need for dedicated laptops. Users can move from one Lotus Notes 8.5 client to the next and enjoy a consistent experience, bringing along email, applications, client settings and preferences.
¹ These features are fully supported in combination with the available IBM Lotus Connections software.
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