ORLANDO, Fla. - 15 Jan 2001: IBM's Lotus Development Corp. today unveiled a family of mobile and wireless software solutions that extends critical business information to mobile devices. Today's announcement marks the next step in Lotus' strategy to extend the collaborative power of Lotus Domino to business users anytime, anywhere, onany device. The Domino Everyplace server family will enable mobile workers to move beyond wireless e-mail to provide full-service collaborative functions and content that increase the effectiveness of key business applications such as sales force automation, customer relationship management and supply chain management.
"Both Lotus and IBM are working together to deliver wireless content, connectivity and infrastructure solutions that allow organizations to achieve the maximum level of impact and ROI from wireless devices," said Ken Bisconti, vice president for messaging and collaboration product marketing, Lotus Development Corp. "The Domino Everyplace server family complements the IBM WebSphere Everyplace portfolio, and allows organizations to optimize their investment in wireless devices by providing access to key business applications from a variety of mobile devices."
The new Domino Everyplace server family marks the next generation of the current Mobile Services for Domino technology and delivers a new class of secure, reliable and easy-to-administer mobile and wireless servers. Combined with the Lotus Mobile Notes client, the Domino Everyplace server family provides organizations with a complete solution that allows Domino customers to easily develop and implement applications that extend their existing Domino infrastructure to the full spectrum of mobile and wireless devices. The new server offerings include:
Domino Everyplace Access server leverages the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and extends the value of Domino's messaging and personal information management (PIM) capabilities to microbrowser devices that are based on the Wireless Markup Language (WML), including WAP phones, pagers and short messaging service (SMS) devices. Based on an XML architecture, the Domino Everyplace Access server provides tight integration with Domino administration and directories as well as wireless access to functions such as corporate e-mail, calendar and directories. This offering also includes messaging services that allow users to send and receive short messages to and from paging or SMS devices, as well as receive instant e-mail notifications or alerts from any Domino-based application.
Domino Everyplace Sync server provides server synchronization of e-mail, calendar, directories and to-dos between wireless devices and Domino-based messaging and PIM applications. Domino Everyplace Sync server supports PalmOS, Windows CE/Pocket PC, EPOC and any SyncML-enabled device.
Domino Everyplace Enterprise server delivers a rich application development environment for easily creating and securely extending enterprise business applications to mobile and wireless devices, including those on the PalmOS, Windows CE/Pocket PC and EPOC platforms. Domino Everyplace Enterprise server is based on industry standards such as XML, WAP and SyncML and enables workers to work on- or off-line, regardless of the type of connectivity. Included in this offering is Mobile Domino Designer, a revolutionary new development tool that enables customers to rapidly extend their Domino-based business applications and create new applications for PDAs and smartphones using Lotus' flagship development environment, Domino Designer. The Domino Everyplace Enterprise offering also includes Mobile Notes to deliver Lotus Notes application functionality to various handheld devices. By including WAP access, synchronization and a rich application development environment, the Domino Everyplace Enterprise server will allow organizations to quickly and easily provide wireless solutions to enterprises users.
Domino Everyplace software enables line of business managers, mobile workers and traveling executives to access Lotus collaborative functionality on mobile and wireless devices to increase productivity and efficiency. In addition, the Domino Everyplace server family complements the recently-announced WebSphere Everyplace Suite from IBM, which enables businesses to develop, manage and deliver broader Web and enterprise applications to a variety of mobile and wireless devices. The Domino Everyplace server family extends the functionality of the Domino Everyplace Quick Start offerings currently available in Lotus Europe, Middle East and Africa, as well as the Mobile Notes Getting Started offerings available in North America, by providing offerings for all markets.
Pricing and Availability
Domino Everyplace Access, Domino Everyplace Sync and Domino Everyplace Enterprise servers will be available in the first half of 2001. Pricing for the servers will be announced upon availability.
Contact(s) information
Michael Shamrell
Lotus Development Corp.
(617) 693-1264
michael_shamrell@lotus.com
| Topics | XML feeds |
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| Software Information Management (DB2), Workplace, Portal & Collaboration Software (Lotus), Tivoli, Rational, WebSphere, Open standards, open source |