Lotus Foundations Start

All-in-one solution for the small business

IBM Lotus® Foundations Start is a complete technology and collaboration solution for businesses with 5-500 employees with limited or no in-house IT resources. It's complete with all the essential software needed to power a small business and also enables you to run a variety of business applications. Lotus Foundations Start helps you establish a company network, use e-mail at the office, from remote locations or mobile devices, create and share documents, centrally manage files, backup data, and protect your business from unwanted disruptions.

A departure from traditional small business solutions, Lotus Foundations is designed to simplify the IT experience. It can be launched in under 30 minutes and leverages self-managing and self-healing capabilities that minimize the need for human intervention, freeing you up to focus on running your business.

Capabilities

• Email and collaboration - Connect, communicate, share
• Office productivity - Be smart. Work free
• Ease of use - Automate your IT experience so you don't even know it's there
• Backup and recovery - Ensure your data is there when you need it
• Security - Keep your systems safe and your mind at ease
• Interoperability - Work how you know best

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• Reduces the time and effort required to get set up by automating installation and configuration and by discovering and mapping the network around it

• Provides security features and connectivity while reducing time effort and error by auto-configuring a firewall and VPN

• Protects and stores electronic data with frequent, automated, highly reliable backups

• Quickly executes a full system recovery in the event of a disaster

• Complete Protection: Automatically stop threats from reaching your network

• Reduced Maintenance: Updates are automatic, so there is no need for continual system maintenance

• Stay Connected: Rapidly link offices, as well as mobile workers

• Increase Productivity: Work more productively with fewer interruptions

• Cost Savings: Conserve network resources

• IBM Lotus office productivity tools included in the price

• Import, edit, and save work in a variety of file types, including Adobe® PDF

• Access email, calendars, documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and applications quickly from a single interface

• Use business applications, create documents, and search the Web without ever having to leave the Lotus Notes interface

• Helps reduce cost of ownership by working with other software or existing infrastructure

• Works with a variety of software packages, minimizing the potential change in user experience

• Email and calendars transparent to Microsoft Outlook users — users can continue to run their Microsoft Outlook client

• No fuss, no worries — even non-technical staff can manage backups

• Frequent incremental backups are continuous and automated

• No tapes (disk-based), no wires, no cables

• No maintenance, cleaning, or administration

• High-level of system redundancy

• Recover from any type of system failure into a fully functional state, in just a few minutes

• IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino: customized for the SMB — no complexity of installation, setup and configuration — no learning curve necessary

• Create and share information, email and calendars

• Email options for everyone — includes Lotus Notes clients for Windows, Mac, and Linux:

• Microsoft Outlook users can continue their experience with Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook

• Remote internet access with Domino Web Access