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Why Lotus Software

Security-rich software that enables businesses to communicate, collaborate and increase productivity. Explore products by category or see the products A-Z list. Get Lotus support (US).

What we offer

Email and calendaring

Provide more than just messaging with Lotus Notes and Domino built-in collaboration tools and application platform.

Business productivity software

Increase effectiveness, responsiveness, creativity and innovation in the workplace.

eForms and Web content management

Create, organise, share, and manage business content to provide the right information to the right people.

Mobile collaboration and wireless

Extend enterprise business processes, applications and information to mobile and wireless devices and clients.

Application development software

Create business flexibility with Lotus application development.

Social computing and mashups

Deliver immediate and measurable business benefits with social networking and mashups.

Portal software and performance dashboards

Deploy role-based work environments and speed time-to-value with dashboards, scorecards and composite applications.

Software as a Service

Collaboration software offered as a service

Software for small and medium business

Collaborative solutions for growth and innovation.

Unified communications and collaboration

Find, reach and collaborate with one another through an integrated unified communications experience.

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Social business: advent of a new age

The successful integration of social computing into business represents the next frontier for today’s enterprise. The era of the ‘social business’ has began.

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Social analysis: becoming a social business

Social media has turned from a curiosity to a major boost to productivity and collaboration. And IBM is leading the way.

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Social Business Jam

A lively Jam session earlier this year focused on the issues surrounding how businesses can embrace – and capitalise on – social media trends.

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Barr boosts quality management.

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Mike Spradbery

Web Experience Software – Business Leader, UKI

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Mike has overall sales leadership for Portal, Web Content Management, Forms, Mashups and Mobile software products in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has over 10 years experience with web solutions that provide integrated social and mobile portals for leading UK brands.

IBM UK Web Experience web pages

Find out more about IBM's flexible, comprehensive offering that helps organisations create highly engaging, personalised, and differentiated web experiences that meet customers' evolving needs.

WebSphere Portal Family Wiki (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Find product documentation and supplemental content for WebSphere Portal, IBM Web Content Manager and IBM Customer Experience Suite.

*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.

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Delphine Remy-Boutang

WW Digital Marketing Manager

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Delphine Remy-Boutang joined IBM 11 years ago and is based in London. Prior to her current role, Delphine held a number of positions within IBM communications, marketing and Sales. Before joining IBM, Delphine worked at EURO RSCG in Paris where she was responsible of Public Relations. In her current role, she drives digital influence strategy and execution at IBM Software, focused on driving innovative marketing capabilities via the web (www.ibm.com/software), This in support of IBM's strategy of enabling and activating IBM's 400,000 employees as representatives of the brand. IBM has the largest employee population active in social media anywhere in the world. She is a frequent speaker at seminars, internal IBM conferences on the subject of social media marketing and its effective use. She has an extensive experience leading and motivating interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement digitial strategies.

Social Media @ IBM (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Social media insights in the complexing world of new marketing. The postings and opinions on this site are our own and don’t necessarily represent the positions, strategies or opinions of IBM.*

Other ways to connect with Delphine

Delphine also recommends: IBM Software Community

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Steve Cogan

Social Business Evangelist

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Responsible for promoting social business and collaboration solutions in organisations across multiple industries. Steve has been a practitioner in collaboration for over 15 years. He shares his knowledge and expertise through various social channels and has recently presented at several public conferences.

Knowledge Shared Is Power

Other ways to connect with Steve

Steve also recommends

The Collaboration Soapbox - Great collection of resources around adoption of social software

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Jon Mell

Social Collaboration Leader - North Europe

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Jon leads the Web Experience and Social Software business for North Europe, including IBM Connections, Portal, and Web Content Management products. He is a frequent speaker at IBM and industry events on the topic of enterprise social software.

Jon Mell - Social Collaboration (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Jon blogs on all things social at http://jonmell.co.uk (link resides outside of ibm.com)*

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Andy Porter

Senior Technology Advocate

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Andy Porter is a Senior Technology Advocate for IBM Collaboration Solutions where he is a leading expert in Messaging, Collaboration, Unified Communications and creating a Social Business. He is a Fellow in the British Computer Society.

Ports Thoughts (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Thoughts on collaboration and life*

Planet Lotus (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Hundreds of Social and Collaboration Blogs updated hourly

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Ofer Guetta

Social Collaboration Software Business Leader – UK & Ireland

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Ofer has overall sales leadership for Lotus Notes & Domino, IBM Quickr, IBM Sametime, IBM Connections and Lotus Symphony software products in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has over 10 years experience with Collaboration solutions.

Social Business Insights Blog

News and thoughts on becoming a business that is engaged, transparent and nimble. Join us in cultivating a spirit of collaboration and community.
The short URL for this blog is http://ibm.com/blogs/socialbusiness*

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Faisal Javed

Manager EMEA ICS Domino and Traveler Teams.

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Manage the Domino and Traveler product teams in IBM EMEA. Speaking at multiple events on Lotus in the area. Strong advocate for the technology for almost 15 years Primarily working on Lotus Brand products like Domino, Notes, Sametime, Quickr and Traveler. I love helping our clients with the resolutions of the product deployment and feature problems and my current role in IBM does exactly the same. Both via onsite and telephonic interactions.
Prior to IBM I have 8 of Banking, Oil and Gas and Government sector deployment experience of the above mentioned products. Design, Development & deployment of messaging and collaboration architectures.

Following are some highlights of my technical skills profile. Technical areas, product
1- Collaboration Infrastructure's designing, deployment and maintenance experience of around 14 years on the following key technologies during different periods
2- Design, deployed and maintained Messaging and collaboration infrastructure for upto 360K users with 180 Server locations on IBM Technologies (Lotus Notes/Domino, Quickr/Domino Doc & Sametime)
3- Unified Messaging tools: Sametime Deployment, Sametime Gateway, DMZ, Integration with AOL, MSN, Quickplace etc
4- Complete Migration from IBM to Microsoft and vice versa: MS Exchange Connectors, Domino NUPDATE, Customer XML scripts for PST to NSF
5- Advanced Certified on IBM Lotus Notes and Domino ( R5/6/7/8 and fully trained by IBM for R8.5)
6- Domino Websphere App Server integration with MS IIS using WAS Plugin, can do complete customization of Plugin-cfg.xml
7- IBM Workplace and websphere Portal server's training acquired
8- IBM Sametime 7.5 and 8, maintenance and support experience

Forum for worldwide Domino Experts [Gurus].

Strictly Lotus brand based technical discussions, feature discussion, Deployment and other best practices. With 1700 members on board. Please join this group to have a focused discussion around Lotus product. Forum allows a range of discussions from decision making items to pure technical product discussions.

Working in the information technology industry since 1998, I have witnessed and experienced the evolution of the IT field first hand. Have had the opportunity to play multiple roles over the years.
- IT architect for messaging, Instant messaging, VPN, core Network, ITIL based systems would be my specialty.
- Project management for deployment of customized collaboration solution for Banking, Government and Retail sector. Ranging from a 200 user based organization to 400K users.

Following are some highlights of specific technologies & Frameworks I have worked on.

1. Collaboration Infrastructure's designing, deployment and maintenance experience of around 14 years on the following key technologies during different periods. Experience with TOGAF & ITIL.
- Messaging and collaboration infrastructure for upto 360K users with 180 Server locations on IBM Technologies (Lotus Notes/Domino, Quickr/Domino Doc & Sametime)
- Unified Messaging tools: Sametime Deployment, Sametime Gateway, DMZ, Integration with AOL, MSN, Quickplace etc
- Advanced Certified on IBM Lotus Notes and Domino ( R5/6/7/8 and fully trained by IBM for R8.5)

Javed also recommends:

Communities:
IBM Lotus Notes & Domino Wiki
IBM Lotus Developer Works
IBM case Study website

*Postings on non-IBM sites are independent of IBM and do not necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.