Application development tools

Create business flexibility with IBM collaboration solutions application development tools

IBM collaboration solutions application development tools give your enterprise the flexibility to build innovative, robust, scalable, and security-rich applications that empower your people and enhance their productivity.

Based on the latest web and collaboration technologies, open platforms, and extensible frameworks, IBM collaboration solutions application development tools help increase IT flexibility and can meet the most demanding needs of your IT environment.

Application development tools and technologies

IBM Lotus Domino Designer

Build and deploy security-rich, collaborative applications, including composite application components in Lotus Domino environment.


IBM Lotus Expeditor

Provides universal managed client software and toolkit to extend composite applications to various devices.


IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator for Domino

Enables data exchange between Lotus Domino and many host and relational applications.

IBM Lotus Connector for SAP solutions

Enables custom integration between Lotus Domino applications and SAP enterprise resource planning software.


IBM Lotus Workflow

Works on top of IBM Lotus Domino to speed the creation and deployment of workflow-oriented applications.

Related application development tools and technologies

IBM WebSphere Portal

Provides a single, integrated, personalized point of access to applications, content, and productivity tools.


IBM Web Experience Factory (US)

Lets you create, customize, maintain, and deploy portlets and web applications for WebSphere Portal.

IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework (US)

Build active, SOA dashboards for WebSphere Portal and augment Web Experience Factory with dashboard-specific features.

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If we had been using any system other than Lotus Domino with its rapid application development capabilities, we couldn't have done this so quickly and for such reasonable cost. Alex Kassabov, VP of Collaboration, PSC Group, LLC.

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