IBM SmartCloud Notes

Provides full-featured email, calendaring, contact management and instant messaging

• Use calendaring and scheduling capabilities for meetings, appointments and reminders across time zones.
• Communicate with business contacts via built-in instant messaging. Receive the quick replies you need without ever using the phone.
• Gain a single point of access to email, calendars, contacts, instant messaging, collaboration tools and business applications.

Lets you access your email from virtually anywhere

• Choose the optional IBM SmartCloud Notes Traveler for Notes. This service enables you to access email, calendar and contacts from various mobile devices including Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Windows Mobile, Google Android and Nokia Symbian mobile devices.
• Choose the optional SmartCloud Notes Hosted BlackBerry Service to access email, calendar and contacts from your BlackBerry device.
• Use support for IMAP clients including Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007, Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0.1, and Apple Mail 4 and 5.

Integrates with existing on-premise infrastructure

• Use hybrid capabilities for integrating with an existing IBM Domino® infrastructure. Now your company administrator can continue managing users and groups with familiar on-premises tools.
• Take advantage of Notes-to-Notes encryption and Transport Layer Security for Internet network traffic.
• Utilize the optional SmartCloud Archive Essentials email archive solution to capture and retain the content of users email messages for later legal discovery.

Provides security-rich features

• Built-in spam and virus protection services.
• Full-featured encryption including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption and secure password recovery. Digital signatures and per-message encryption. Data encryption at rest, opportunistic Transport Layer Security encryption in transit.
• Support for Federated identity via Security Assertion Markup Language.
• Governance processes/policy enforcement.
• IBM compliance programs deployed throughout the delivery environment. IBM data center and operational processes consistent with SAS 70 Type II controls testing.

Helps control costs

• Provides predictable monthly and annual subscriptions—often for less than an in-house solution.
• Helps reduce capital expenditures with little to no up-front investment.
• Requires minimal IT staff.