IBM ships Lotus Notes, Domino 8
ConvergenceAsia staff
28/08/2007

IBM has announced the general availability of Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus Domino 8. 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.

Lotus Notes 8 provides instant productivity through immediate access to people, current projects or activities, and information without leaving the inbox. Time can be saved through a new search tool that lets users automatically extend searches beyond email and contacts to Web and hard drive file searches. Face can be saved through the "message recall" feature which enables users to quickly recall an email message after it has been sent by mistake.

In addition, through the new "conversation" feature, users can view all individual messages in their inbox or they can now view their emails grouped together in related conversations or threads by subject.

Lotus Notes 8 includes the IBM Lotus productivity tools enabling users to create open standards-based versions of spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, in addition to supporting many file formats from traditional stand-alone applications. The productivity tools support the Open Document Format (ODF), allowing users to import and export supported file formats used by Microsoft Office and save them either in the original format or ODF.

Additionally, IBM is enabling Notes and Domino customers to add the Activities component of Lotus Connections directly into Notes. Licensed separately, the Activities option enables the worker to share collaborative content such as documents, email, instant messaging and other items related to a project into one logical unit. The Activities feature of the Lotus Notes 8 release uses Web 2.0 technologies such as Backpack, Atom, Tagging, REST, Ajax and JSON to deliver a lightweight, web-based collaboration offering.

A video demonstration of some of the new features of Lotus Notes 8 is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgRnk5VSO0.

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