IBM launches Lotus Notes & Domino 8

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IBM announced that after two years in development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world, Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8 (www.ibm.com/lotus/nd8) will be generally available in India now. IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino 8 represents the industry's first enterprise collaboration solution largely designed with input from its customers.

 

Research and insight gained from IBM R&D Laboratories and businesses worldwide indicate overall collaboration has superceded email as the key characteristic of their desktop experience.   Consequently, Lotus Notes 8 is designed to transform the inbox into an integrated workspace that brings together email, calendar, instant messaging, office productivity tools and custom applications.

 

More than 93 percent of Lotus Notes customers are using the most recent two releases, a high adoption rate.   Further, annual service subscription renewal rates within Lotus Notes licenses exceed 20 percent of the industry average, indicating broad, fast adoption. Lotus Notes 8 is much more than email, unlike competitive offerings.   Lotus Notes 8 integrates work by building in instant messaging and presence awareness, office tools to create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets and infusing a business' custom applications, including Help Desk, CRM, Sales Force, Discussion Forums, Blogs and more.  

 

"Our customers are calling Lotus Notes 8 the 'desktop of the future' because it consolidates all their collaboration tools into one screen," said Chetan Yardi, Country Manager, IBM Lotus Software. "Collaboration is eclipsing email as the killer app we use daily, whether your virtual desktop is on your desk, in your car, your hand, or your ear.   Notes and Domino 8 is your personal portal to the Web 2.0 world."

 

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