Lotus Domino 4.5, Powered by Notes

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Lotus Domino 4.5, Powered by Notes

The first groupware and e-mail server for the Net.

Lotus Domino 4.5 is an applications and messaging server with an integrated set of services to let you easily create secure, interactive business solutions for the Internet and corporate intranets. With Domino, you can rapidly build, deploy, and manage applications that help coworkers, partners, and customers collaborate and coordinate critical business activities on-line. Domino supports a variety of clients and devices, including Web browsers, Notes clients, and POP3 mail clients.

Collaboration by Design
Domino will transform your intranet from an information delivery mechanism into a vehicle for conducting real business. With Domino you can use the Net to host team discussions about projects, so that face-to-face meetings are used to make real decisions. Your Domino-powered web site can allow customers to order products on-line, and help automatically process orders and report on product popularity. With Domino, you can provide on-line customer service and automatically escalate problems to a service representative when necessary. And Domino can help you follow up on Web-captured leads quickly and automatically.

Unlike other servers, only Domino 4.5 integrates all the services you need to build and deploy collaborative applications. These services can also be deployed in a modular fashion, giving you the most function and flexibility. With Domino's support of the leading open protocols and standards, you can plug Domino into your corporate systems, extending critical data and processes to the Net.

Fast Results with Integrated Development Tools
With a set of rich development tools integrated into Domino, creating and deploying collaborative applications across your organization has never been easier, or faster. Since Domino is cross-platform, applications built on one operating system can be hosted on another with no recompilation. Plus, Domino applications can be converted into templates for reuse or adaptation in other solutions.

Only Lotus Domino 4.5 Brings You:

Rich Set of Services. Provides the services to build secure, interactive applications for the Internet and intranets.

The Leading Messaging System. Provides the most scalable and reliable system, supporting the widest range of messaging clients and server platforms.

Integrated Application Development Environment. Lets you develop custom business applications with a choice of development tools.

Seamless Enterprise Integration. Offers extensive connectivity options for fast, seamless integration with RDBMSs and transaction systems.

Flexible Security. Controls access to information and functionality, so you can extend your intranet to partners and customers.

Easy Distribution and Management. Includes industry-leading replication technology and supports SNMP management tools.

Domino Features Overview

Everything You Need to Build Collaborative Applications
Lotus Domino 4.5 is the only server that provides a set of integrated services to build, deploy and maintain secure, interactive applications on the Internet and corporate intranets. These services include:

Object Store
Documents in a Domino database can contain any number of objects and data types including text, rich text, numerical text, structured data, images, graphics, sound, video, file attachments, embedded objects and Java and ActiveX applets. A built-in full text search engine makes it easy to index and search documents. The object store also lets your Domino applications dynamically present information based on variables including user identity, user preferences, user input, and time.

Directory
A single directory manages all resource directory information for server and network configuration, application management, and security. Domino 4.5 includes user account synchronization between NT and Domino. The directory is the foundation for easily managing and securing your Internet and intranet applications.

Security
The Domino security model provides user authentication, digital signatures, server to field level access control, and encryption. Security enables you to extend your intranet applications to customers and business partners.

Replication
Bi-directional replication automatically distributes and synchronizes information and applications across geographically dispersed sites. Replication makes your business application available to users around your company or around the world, regardless of time or location.

Messaging
An advanced client/server messaging system with built-in calendaring and scheduling enables individuals and groups to send and share information easily. Message transfer agents (MTAs) seamlessly extend the system to SMTP/MIME, x.400 and cc:Mail messaging environments. The Domino messaging service provides a single backend supporting a variety of mail clients - POP3, MAPI and Notes clients.

Enterprise Integration
Programmable real-time and batch-level bi-directional integration with relational, mainframe, and transactional systems through ODBC, LotusScript:Data Object (LS:DO), and Domino.Connect. Domino seamlessly connects to your relational databases and transaction systems so that your Internet and intranet applications can leverage and even extend your back office applications.

Workflow
A workflow engine distributes, routes, and tracks documents according to a process defined in your application. Workflow enables you to coordinate and streamline critical business activities across your organization, and with customers, partners and suppliers.

Agents
Agents enable developers to automate frequently performed processes, eliminating tedious administration tasks and speeding your business application. Agents can be triggered by time or events in a business application.

Build and Manage Your Intranet with Domino.Action
Domino 4.5 also includes Domino.Action, an architectural framework for rapidly and easily creating and managing an extensible intranet. Domino.Action contains the site creator and eleven template-based modules that allow a webmaster to create a functionally rich site to which others can add content with or without third-party authoring tools.

A Family of Powerful Internet/Intranet Applications
Domino 4.5 is part of the Lotus family of products that are helping organizations worldwide automate their essential business processes via the Internet and corporate intranets.