Lotus Notes Traveler for Symbian S60, on my Nokia N95.
Posts Tagged 'לוטוס נוטס'
Coming soon…
Published November 24, 2008 Uncategorized 3 CommentsTags: israel, lotus notes traveler, mobile, nokia n95, symbian s60, לוטוס נוטס, מובייל, מייל, נוקיה, סימביאן
The early days of B2C (aka web 0.1)
Published November 4, 2008 Uncategorized ClosedTags: e-business, ibm, lotus notes, lotus software, lou gerstner, marketing, time machine, אינטרנט, יבמ, לוטוס, לוטוס נוטס, מכונת זמן
Nowadays it seems trivial, the internet. I am doing pretty much everything online, and if it’s not available online – chances are I will not look at it or consider any other action.
Been visiting a veteran Lotus Notes customer the other day, when I came across this poster, from one of IBM’s old campaigns, e-business.
Lou Gerstner, IBM CEO and President in the 1990s mentioned the term in his book, referring to IBM’s internet and marketing teams. Seeing this poster was like taking a time machine back to 1998… :-))
Lotus Notes in the Clouds
Published October 23, 2008 Uncategorized ClosedTags: customers, hosted solution, ibm, lotus notes, lotus notes hosted messaging, saas, לוטוס נוטס, מיחשוב בעננים, ניהול משתמשים, פתרון מנוהל
It’s been around for at least 36 hours now, so you’re no strangers to the news, but still:
Using a hosting service, there is no need to purchase, house or supply energy to new hardware needed to run the software. Customers of Lotus Notes messaging software can instead focus their IT resources on other strategic business projects.
The solution includes servers, storage, monitoring, networks, security and 24 x 7 support.
Did I mention it starts from $8 per user, per month?
Key benefits are:
- Fully managed, scalable enterprise e-mail application platform hosted at an IBM data center
- 1 GB mailbox
- Comprehensive service-level agreements for e-mail application and infrastructure (99.5% and 99.9% availability)
- Support for the regulatory requirements of the government and various industries
- Anti-spam and antivirus protection to support data privacy and security
- Backup and restore
Links:
Announcement letter: IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
Press release: IBM extends Lotus Notes software to new markets with on-line hosted service
Ed Brill: Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging announced today
PlanetLotus.org: IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
InformationWeek: IBM releases SaaS version of Lotus Notes Domino
InternetNews: IBM takes Notes in the clouds
eWeek: IBM SaaS version of Lotus Notes Domino goes on sale
PC World: IBM to roll out $8-per-month hosted Lotus
The Burton Group (Bill Pray): IBM announces Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging website at ibm.com
140,000 Lotus Symphony users at IBM
Published October 12, 2008 Uncategorized 10 CommentsTags: ibm internal deployment, lotus notes domino, lotus symphony, microsoft exchange, microsoft office, אופיס, יבמ, לוטוס, לוטוס נוטס, לוטוס סימפוני, מיקרוסופט
I’ve been using Lotus Symphony for several months now, both for daily use and also part of the development and translation efforts made around the product.
When talking to customers I always mentions numbers, as they provide a better indicator of a product’s success. In IBM’s case, even thou Lotus Notes 7 comes pre-installed on new machines (IBM image), there are over 80,000 employees running Lotus Notes 8.x, while our Domino servers are almost migrated fully to 8.0.1 (8.5 coming next year). There are also 140,000 Symphony users, either on Lotus Notes 8.x or the standalone software.
Impressive adoption!
Links:
Lotus Symphony
Chris Pepin – IBM internal deployment of Lotus Notes/Domino and Symphony
The Symphony Blog – IBM now has 140,000 users
Magic over Lotus – The Ministry of Finance
Published July 21, 2008 Uncategorized 2 CommentsTags: best practice, customer reference, ibm, israel, ministry of finance, יבמ ישראל lotus, לוטוס נוטס, לקוח, משרד האוצר
Spend couple of hours this morning at The Ministry of Finance (MOF), a veteran Lotus customer, with some 1,200 employees spread out mostly in Israel and some in locations worldwide.
Lotus was introduced to the MOF back in 1997 (!), with Lotus Notes 4.5. Since then, dozens of applications were developed, including SMS (text messages), fax server, document manager, scanner, meeting rooms reservation, car pool and many more. Particularly I liked the SMS application: open up a new email, and instead of inserting an email address in the ‘To’ field, you write ‘mobilenumber@SMS’, and Lotus Notes identify the ‘@SMS’ and changes the ‘Text’ field into SMS template. Brilliant !
The MOF is also a green business, paperless office. Their internal document management repository was developed back in 2002, and currently holds over 15GB of data – documents, spreadsheets, presentations, faxes, scanned newspapers and more. Nothing is printed, everything is saved in a Lotus Notes DB and the users can share content easily, across the network.
Brilliant usage of Lotus Notes and Domino. I was trully surprised of what they did.
While on the matter of customer successes, here’s an event worth writing down.
Mark your calendars for Monday, September 8th: KM and Collaboration User Forum, where IBM customers will present some of the work they’re doing over our Software solutions. The IT manager of MOF is already in the speakers list.
Links:
Ministry of Finance, Israel
IBM Software for a Greener World
KM and Collaboration User Forum – Monday, Sep. 8th, IBM Israel HQ
