gbm offers streamlined timesaving solutions through lotus notes and domino 8 in the middle east
Gulf Business Machines (GBM), announces the availability of the next generation email and collaboration platform, Lotus Notes and Domino 8. This open beta version software boasts a new more intuitive interface streamlining day to day business with compatibility on a variety of computing platforms and technology software systems including Linux and Windows for clients and Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX and IBM System i for servers.
Program developers have focused on new timesaving features, such the ability to quickly view important emails by grouping them into conversation threads, productivity editors that create open standards-based versions of spreadsheets, word processing and presentations, and search capabilities that let users extend searches beyond email and contacts to Web and file searches without leaving the inbox.
Soubhi Chebib, GBM’s Director of IBM brands said “The new software delivers a high-performance work environment that natively links to other Lotus software components such as social software, collaborative content management, and unified communications and collaboration. This version allows developers to build a new class of Web 2.0 solutions and taps into the latest technologies from IBM Research applicable to businesses of all sizes.”
New technologies such as a composite application framework and activity-centric computing capabilities brought into Lotus Notes and Domino 8 from IBM Research to deliver richer solutions in a faster timeframe.
A small sampling of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software’s new enhanced features include the IBM Lotus Productivity Editors at no additional cost, supporting the Open-Document Format, these editors provide users with the ability to create and edit all standard Microsoft Office applications.
In addition to the traditional view of the inbox, Domino 8 gives users the ability to view their inbox by conversations, grouping related messages together. Users will also benefit from embedded instant messaging and presence awareness, advanced search capabilities, and icons that show whether the user was on the "to" or "cc" field of an email message.
“Today a demand for a fool-proof open source streamlined solution has become a necessity which Domino 8 can address,” said Thierry Louesse, General Manager of GBM Qatar. “Built on an open framework, Lotus Notes 8 brings the power of ‘business mashup’ to your desktop through composite applications, which combine multiple software components into a single user interface.”
Building on the web services capabilities of Lotus Domino 7, Lotus Notes 8 clients and Domino 8 servers can initiate web service requests to other systems. This enhanced support for system interaction via open standards lets organizations make use of their existing IT investments. For example, with full web services support an organization could automatically initiate a request for currency exchange rates from within a server-based Lotus Domino application. The rates could then be plugged directly into an expense reporting application or stored in a database for future reference.
Lotus Notes and Domino 8 includes support for: Microsoft Windows XP or Linux (SLED 10) with feature parity across clients plus full feature Web access support for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers on multiple platforms, plus server platform choice of Windows 2003, x64, Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris and IBM.
