Lotus iNotes

Reliable, security-rich Web based email software

IBM® Lotus® iNotes 8.5 software provides reliable, security-rich Web based email software that can help many different types of users efficiently manage business-critical information and collaboration, online and offline.

It provides a Web browser alternative for accessing IBM Lotus Domino applications, including email, calendar, and personal information management (PIM) capabilities, as well as instant messaging and presence awareness.

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• Integrate remote workers with critical data and applications, through a look and feel similar to the Lotus Notes® client with a layout customizable per user.

• Enable access to Lotus Domino-based applications, email, calendaring and scheduling and instant messaging - anywhere they can find an Internet connection.

• Send encrypted rich text email, schedule meetings, manage tasks and collaborate with colleagues-through their own workstations, Internet kiosks or PCs that belong to other users.

• Protect business-critical information through a variety of authentication options as well as encryption and digital signatures.

• Lower overall messaging solution costs through central administration, touting a low-touch to the desktop deployment model.

• Enhance your corporate portal with collaborative tools including messaging access via Lotus iNotes software.

• Moving between IBM Lotus Notes 8 and Lotus iNotes software is virtually seamless with a similar look-and-feel shared between the two clients.

• Fonts, color schemes and icons are consistent running within IBM WebSphere® Portal software.

• Supports Microsoft® Windows®-like selection, column resizing, context menus and double-click to open. Content is resized as the browser is resized.

• Helps reduce administration burden with automatic synchronization between Lotus Notes ID and Lotus iNotes internet passwords.

• “Full” mode enables rapid access to Welcome screen, email, full calendar and group scheduling, to-do (task) management, contacts, notebook and instant messaging.

• Optional “Lite” mode selectable at login for slow connections or just a simplified experience, providing access to email, day at a glance calendar and contacts.

• Build custom dashboards that aggregate information from multiple sources in the customizable Welcome screen.

• Off-line mail file replication available on demand or via schedule for a nearly identical experience to on-line in “Full” mode.

• See more content of a particular column with optional dynamic size adjustment on a per-column basis.

• Graceful re-establishment of session without losing data after connection is unexpectedly lost.

• Integration with desktop editing tools allowing documents to be emailed directly from Microsoft Office software.

• Simplified administration with default mail template shared between Lotus iNotes and Lotus Notes software.

• Quickly scan email without opening them through preview panes. Display previews horizontally, vertically, or not at all.

• Create email messages with rich text, attachments, and mark as confidential when appropriate.

• Easy folder management with drag and drop of messages to folders.

• Configure your mail header to show only information and options that are useful to you.

• Easily see and manage all your related email, including Internet email and those outside your inbox. And if an email message in the thread is deleted, the thread is preserved.

• Display your schedule in multiple formats: 1, 2, and 5 day, 1 and 2 week, 1 month and 1 year.

• Automatic detection or custom selection of user's time zone.

• Organize calendar entries by chairperson, by type (meeting, appointments, etc) or by invitee status as best serves your need at a given time.

• Quickly schedule meetings with a default room or resources.

• Easily access other calendars that you manage from within your own calendar.

• Miss fewer meetings with calendar alarms to alert you to upcoming calendar events.

• Manage and sort contacts by name, email, and company name.

• Enter multiple phone numbers, email addresses, and Web addresses for each contact.

• Automatic synchronization of business contacts in the Contacts database, and notebook entries with the Lotus Notes 8.5 client.

• Empowers traveling users with Ultralite mode for Apple iPhone Safari web browser access to email, calendar and contacts.

• Integrated instant messaging with convenient drop-down list that lets you easily change your availability status or access your instant messaging contact list.

• Quickly see who is online for collaboration with presence awareness icons that are automatically refreshed in your inbox view.

• Notify colleagues that you are not available with a customized “out-of-office” notification sent in response to messages and calendar entries sent to you.

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