Software Announcement January 17, 2006

IBM Workplace Collaboration Services V2.6 and IBM Workplace software products V2.6

Overview IBM Workplace Managed Client, the optional rich client for Workplace At a glance IBM Workplace Collaboration Collaboration Services users, helps Services and IBM Workplace make people more productive by IBM Workplace Collaboration Managed Client , the optional full enabling them to make better Services V2.6 and IBM Workplace rich client, are IBM Workplace informed decisions and take targeted software products V2.6: actions, fast. Because Workplace products that deliver a complete and • integrated collaborative platform. Managed Client is deployed, Integrate with IBM Workplace Built on open standards and provisioned and managed from the Designer delivering network-based Workplace Collaboration Services • Include support for Lotus collaboration to users of all types, server, it offers Workplace Managed Notes and Domino V7.0 IBM Workplace products are Client functions with operational changing the way organizations characteristics that are comparable • Provide interoperability with the collaborate. to Web browsers. Key “better than Lotus Notes calendar browser” capabilities include local • IBM Workplace Collaboration execution of code, an encrypted data Support out-of-office Services delivers an integrated store with offline use support and a notifications collaborative environment that full array of productivity tools • Contain block mail send for includes a wide range of capabilities including word processor, quota enforcement like e-mail, calendaring, presence spreadsheet, Presentation awareness, , Manager and project planner. • Enhance Web conference learning, team spaces, Web Workplace Managed Client also management conferencing, document and Web includes a capability called “Activity • Have document management content management. The Explorer,” an innovative feature enhancements underlying service oriented which enables users to easily architecture (SOA) provides a organize collections of work items • Include clustering support for flexible and easy way to deploy just and collaborations together into IBM iSeries the capabilities any given individual “activities.” needs, as well as bring together existing or newly developed capabilities as part of a customized Key prerequisites solution. Built on open standards Refer to the Hardware requirements and a single componentized and Software requirements sections. infrastructure that is centrally managed, Workplace Collaboration Services delivers modular, reusable Planned availability dates collaborative services that offer the flexibility for adapting quickly to • January 17, 2006: Electronic changing business conditions and software delivery broad hardware, operating system • and client choices to provide February 14, 2006: Media and deployment options that are in line documentation with your business strategy.

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IBM Workplace Collaboration Services V2.6 delivers an • Learning — The learning capability is an integrated integrated collaborative environment that includes a wide learning environment that streamlines the range of capabilities like e-mail, calendaring, presence management of training programs, resources and awareness, instant messaging, learning, team spaces, courseware. It helps organizations more efficiently Web conferencing, document and Web content meet ongoing training and compliance requirements management. The underlying service oriented and easily measure the results of learning activities. architecture (SOA) provides a flexible and easy way to • Common collaborative environment — Workplace deploy just the capabilities any given individual needs, Collaboration Services delivers differentiated business as well as bring together existing or newly developed value through a completely integrated Workplace capabilities as part of a customized solution. Built on environment that applies common features across all open standards and a single componentized capabilities. This environment includes integration infrastructure that is centrally managed, Workplace between each of the capabilities, central Collaboration Services provides organizations with administration and policy management, federated modular, reusable collaborative services that offer the search, a welcome page, a portlet palette supporting flexibility for adapting quickly to changing business a drag-and-drop user interface for instant conditions and broad hardware, operating system and customization of your environment and application client choices to provide deployment options that are in program interfaces (APIs) that provide access to most line with your business strategy. functions available in the user interface and much Across most organizations, people have varying work more. needs and the IT staff must be able to provide the right • Templates and forms — Built-in application and form tools as requirements and work scenarios change. templates help users of all types build applications Workplace Collaboration Services gives IT teams one quickly and efficiently. product that can support varying needs and can be easily changed or adapted — all from one infrastructure for IT • Productivity tools — Workplace Collaboration Services to manage. This provides an easier way to deliver the offers built-in productivity tools including a word right productivity tools throughout an organization than processing editor, spreadsheet editor and presentation in the past. With greater flexibility and choice, Workplace editor that can interoperate with existing desktop Collaboration Services delivers a variety of software. server-managed client experiences ranging from a basic • Activity Explorer — Experienced through IBM browser to a full rich client through IBM Workplace Workplace Managed Client (requires optional license), Managed Client. Server-managed clients provide Activity Explorer is a new innovation that helps people administrators a security-rich deployment model without to more effectively track and manage multiple points having to touch the desktop. Coupled with central of interaction (activities) that relate to a project or policy-based management of the end-user′s desktop process, extending collaboration beyond instant environment, this can result in improved business messaging and e-mail by allowing teams to proactively productivity, reducing costs and responding with speed to record and organize their shared conversations and any customer demand or opportunity. documents using an easy-to-navigate, structured Providing out-of-the-box value, Workplace Collaboration approach. Services includes self-service tools and a rich Feature overview development framework to deliver a simplified model for building, deploying and managing a collaborative IBM Workplace Collaboration Services provides an Workplace environment and custom applications. The integrated, portal-based, centrally managed collaborative integrated collaborative environment delivered by environment that includes a wide range of capabilities Workplace Collaboration Services includes: built on a single, componentized infrastructure. This release provides key enhancements across the • Web content management — Web content collaborative capabilities such as e-mail and calendaring, management helps streamline the Web content Web conferencing, document management and extends management process by placing content creation and support to additional software platforms such as Lotus management in the hands of content experts, for Notes and Domino 7.0, DB2 V8.2, IBM HTTP Server V6.0 author once, publish everywhere control, helping and the IBM Directory Integrator V6.0. The businesses to reduce content development and comprehensive feature highlights are provided below. implementation time. • • Document management — Document management Highlights include: capabilities can be experienced through the optional − A single completely integrated collaborative rich client or a basic Web browser. They enable the environment with central administration and policy management of the complete lifecycle of office management documents, from inception to collaborative authoring to review, approval and archiving. − All collaboration capabilities such as e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, presence awareness, • Team collaboration — Team collaboration provides instant messaging, learning, team spaces, Web integrated presence awareness, instant messaging, conferencing and document and Web content Web conferencing and customizable team spaces to management help individuals, teams and entire organizations become more responsive, increase business − A choice of client experience to optimally support efficiencies and collaborate easily. a user′s role ranging from a basic Web browser to a full rich client • E-mail, calendar and scheduling — Messaging capabilities can be experienced through the optional − A simplified approach to deploying software using rich client or a basic browser. By combining e-mail, a network-centric delivery model enabling calendaring and scheduling and a personal address organizations to activate only those collaboration services they need for their business On Demand

A06-0050 -2- − A simplified user interface to help reduce training • Instant messaging and presence awareness — time Provides visual, real-time access so that people can see whether a person is available on-line to − Out-of-the-box templates and forms for rapid collaborate, exchange instant messages, share time-to-value, designed to meet industry or information and/or take action. business needs • Membership — Provides the ability for the moderator − Out-of-the-box template and application editors, of a customizable team work space or Web conference enabling role-based access to application pages to define and control member access and participation. and editing running applications by including a portlet palette and drag and drop of portlets directly • Templates — Provides the ability for administrators to on the page easily customize team spaces to meet industry or business process specific requirements with no − Broad platform, database and operating system programming skills required. support that is not tied to a Windows 32 desktop and supports Linux • Team spaces — Provides 11 ready-to-use team space templates to rapidly build custom applications and − A built-in, self-service, browser-based tool for custom templates. Team spaces also includes building customized Workplace environments self-service management with a Member Management − Built on a SOA, provides organizations modular, feature for people to collaborate easily. reusable collaborative services that offer the • Team library — Is a centralized location for documents flexibility to adapt quickly to changing business with methods for tracking changes and comments conditions made by team members. Authorized members can − The ability to leverage prior investments in read, edit and delete documents, as well as create and application and messaging infrastructure delete folders to organize information and content. • − Component service APIs provide access to most Discussion forum — Allows members to engage in functions available in the user interface via Java threaded discussions; also provides the ability to and Web Services, allowing customization of the create Web-based discussion forums. IBM Workplace environment with new components • Search — Provides the ability for authorized members − An optional rich-client experience that delivers: to search team spaces and Web conferences.

-- Built-in productivity tools, providing seamless IBM Workplace Collaboration Services provides interchange of information with standards-based team collaboration capabilities that can users, ensuring interoperability between users leverage existing IT skills and technologies: of IBM productivity tools and Microsoft Office • Integrates with existing supported infrastructures, like -- Offline (disconnected) support for Workplace IBM Lotus Domino, using open standards including messaging and Workplace document capabilities J2EE, LDAP and HTML

-- A project planner tool that integrates project • Embraces standards-based security features for management into the Workplace Managed Client authentication of users, confidentiality of content and experience, while providing security-rich library integrity of data services which help in sharing documents and • ensuring users have the latest versions of the Supports real-time and team collaboration scenarios project plan to help make it easier and more cost-effective to install, use, upgrade and maintain than separate -- The application switcher feature, making it faster products for each unique, yet fully integrated, and easier to launch and manage multiple capability applications (and pages) Benefits -- A data access tool that enables database applications (forms, grids, and reports) to be Individuals, teams and entire organizations, together with created (design mode) and executed (run-time their customers, Business Partners and suppliers, can mode) potentially become better informed, more productive and more efficient by: -- Activity Explorer, an innovative productivity component that helps advanced users create a • Providing instant, any time access to people and unique collaborative environment to more information, minimizing the cycles associated with effectively track and manage multiple points of e-mail and voice-mail “tag” and complex searches for interaction (activities) that relate to a project or timely information, giving people more time to focus process on their core business. Detailed features description • Seamlessly bringing together geographically dispersed team members, and instilling a heightened Enables team collaboration: sense of community and deeper relationships with customers and Business Partners. • Web conferencing — Provides live meeting capabilities, so that dispersed team members can collaborate in • Helping increase personal, team and organizational real-time and share presentations. The moderator can productivity. share presentations and give participants the option • to download meeting materials. Users can participate Helping improve responsiveness to customers as well in Web conferences with their Web browser (no client as colleagues, Business Partners and suppliers, all download required) and members can schedule, while helping reduce the need for in-person meetings prepare, attend and search Web conferences. Web and the costs associated with related business travel. conference management enhancements make it easier • Enabling faster, more informed team decision making, for people to use these capabilities. centralizing timely and accurate information directly related to the decision at hand.

-3- A06-0050 The team collaboration capabilities can also help • Support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format (also organizations to: know as OpenDoc or ODF) which is a new public XML-based standard for document storage and • Improve responsiveness interoperability • Enhance and optimize customer service interactions • Anticipate and dynamically respond to market Document benefits opportunities and competitive threats • Helps improve organizational effectiveness by Document capabilities providing centralized, consistent management of documents and information The integrated document capabilities provide a simplified • Can offer document editors the flexibility for updating model for every user to share, edit and organize many common file types documents in a security-rich environment across the • Promotes collaboration via support of chats with organization. This capability provides a standards-based, document authors, editors and owners collaborative document library experience with a choice • Helps speed decisions because you can reuse of either Web browser or optional rich client user information that is stored in shared documents experience provided by Workplace Managed Client. It • Helps eliminate wasteful recreation of documentation also facilitates the process of document lifecycle or work based on incorrect or outdated documentation management from collaborative authoring to archiving • Provides a security-rich environment and synchronous and makes it easy to find, store and manage important experience for end users to create, import, edit and information including documents, spreadsheets, save documents, presentations, and spreadsheets presentations, drawings, e-mails and more. Document within an integrated Workplace Managed Client services can help organizations manage documents experience efficiently and predictably and enable consistent sharing • Can help improve productivity of employees with of information, building the foundation for all their content infrequent access to your company′s network since management processes. It can be easily integrated they can work offline (disconnected) using a secure across existing supported infrastructures to take full local store advantage of current IT investments while also delivering • Can help lower total cost of ownership through a rich client experience traditionally found in desktop infrastructure simplification using a common applications, with all of the cost benefits and administration model, a common place to deploy manageability of Web-based applications. For example, collaborative document management capabilities to employees with infrequent access to your company′s end users, with low- to no-touch deployment model network have the ability to work offline with access to the coupled with central policy-based management of the latest company information that was just replicated to end user′s desktop environment their local system. Also, IT can examine the possible reduction of existing costs for at least a portion of their Messaging capabilities user base with the included productivity editors in the optional Workplace Managed Client experience. The The messaging capabilities provides standards-based document services also bring server-managed messaging functionality that is security-rich, scalable, capabilities of the client to the editors so maintaining easily deployed and can be integrated across existing individual desktop machines can be automated to assure infrastructures to take full advantage of current IT that end users have the latest versions of the editors. investments. Offering a simplified messaging experience for Web browser users, it also provides a rich client Document features experience with optionally licensed IBM Workplace Managed Client for those users who can benefit from an Enterprise document management capabilities: extended set of integrated productivity tools such as offline (disconnected) support with an encrypted local • Library services for check-in and check-out, versioning message store. With the flexibility and robust capabilities and document locking traditionally found in desktop applications, plus the • Document lifecycle management manageability and cost benefits of Web-based • My documents view applications, Workplace Managed Client (rich client) • Collaboration by way of instant messaging and messaging experience provides the best of both worlds. awareness The messaging services are designed to enable • E-mail archiving from IBM Workplace Messaging organizations to communicate more directly with timely • Access to portal document libraries information to the “deskless” employees and at the same • Optional integration with DB2 Content Manager as a time can help to minimize expenses by reducing or repository eliminating the need for printed materials, postage and • Workplace Templates — that let you easily customize response tracking currently required. This can help document library portlets to meet industry or business businesses increase the speed of communications process-specific requirements containing critical information to help reduce costs, • Import large files (up to 100 Mb) in document libraries improve productivity and increase competitive • Template support for rich client editors advantage. Also, the messaging services are integrated Workplace Managed Client (rich client) experience also with other capabilities provided by Workplace includes: Collaboration Services such as providing the ability to archive e-mail directly into the document library. This • Rich document editors for word processing, enables organizations to deploy roles-based spreadsheets, presentations and project management environments that are specially tailored to help users perform their daily work activities more efficiently. • Dynamic client provisioning Messaging features • Disconnected (offline) support • Secure encrypted local document store Mail • Support for document templates providing the ability • Support for a variety of mail views (Inbox, Drafts, All to create a new document based on an existing Documents) template • Support for creating rich text messages (for example, attachments, bolding, bullets, images and so on)

A06-0050 -4- • Has attachment viewers/converters • Integrates with existing supported infrastructures, like • Ability to add signatures to outgoing mail messages in IBM Lotus Domino, using open standards including either rich or plain text using Mail Signature Phrase J2EE, LDAP, SMTP and HTML • Support for Personal Address Book • • Integrated instant messaging — presence awareness Embraces standards-based security features for • Integration with the document service, archive e-mail authentication of users, confidentiality of content and directly into the document library integrity of data • Has end-user spam filtering; users can “vote” any Messaging benefits message as spam by selecting “Delete Message as Junk Mail” from the Actions menu For all corporations today, especially in manufacturing, • Has out-of-office notifications retail, wholesale, government and distribution industries, • Block mail send for quota enforcement IBM Workplace Managed Client is a simple, cost-effective • Includes drag and drop of mail messages between alternative for communicating information to large folders numbers of “deskless” employees (users without an • Delivers type-ahead so users can quickly access e-mail solution today and who may require only names they use the most (in mail and calendar occasional access), with the ability to provide extended portlets) productivity features required by advanced users through • Includes save content and all attachments of one or a common shared environment. The messaging: more messages in a zip file • Helps improve employee productivity with the right Calendaring and scheduling: messaging capabilities in the context of the user′s role and the business activity on which they are working • — Supported multiple calendar entry types • Reduces costs associated to paper-based Appointment, Reminder, All day event, Anniversary • communications while helping increase productivity by Create/Accept/Decline/Cancel/Reschedule meeting transforming employee-to-employee communication capabilities • Gives all of your employees access to the timely • — Calendar Views includes One day, Five Days, One information they need to be more responsive to Week, and Monthly customers, colleagues and business needs • iCal interop with Lotus Notes/Domino • • Helps improve employee productivity and morale by Support for roles in team calendars giving them a “voice” in the organization • — Support for international calendars Gregorian, • Helps increase responsiveness and productivity by Japanese, Buddhist, Islamic (civil) and Taiwanese • providing extended messaging capabilities to current Integration with team collaboration (Web conferencing e-mail users — capability) requires the Workplace Team • Helps increase employee, partner and customer Collaboration SKU satisfaction by providing a simplified client experience IBM Workplace Managed Client: that is better suited to business tasks • Provides infrastructure simplification using a common • Ability to use mail and calendar when offline administration model to deploy and provision (disconnected support) — same experience as when messaging and collaborative capabilities to end users connected • Provides administrators a security-rich, no-touch • Provides an encrypted secure local data store — deployment model coupled with central policy-based Cloudscape database management of the end user′s desktop environment, • Provides dynamic updates/maintenance to end-user simplifying IT operational support while helping to desktops from central administration reduce costs • Includes attention indicators, an end-user productivity feature, so users have more information about their Web Content Management capabilities messages (for example, graphically indicates if the The integrated Web Content Management functionality recipient of the message is actually listed in the To helps streamline the Web Content Management process field or the cc field of the mail header) • through powerful end-to-end Web Content Management Includes mail threading, an end-user productivity for multiple Internet, intranet, extranet and portal sites. feature that uses secondary highlighting to show the It enables users to rapidly create Web sites and portlets relationship between messages • that personalize information without programming Support for policy-based user settings (for example, resources, so content can be rapidly channeled into the enabling or disabling instant messaging and so on) sites without the need for specialized skills. With its rapid Advanced spam technology: content deployment capability and point-and-click interface, it helps relieve IT and Webmaster bottlenecks • The spam engine systematically learns to identify by placing content creation and management in the hands spam, based on a set of attributes. of content experts for author once, publish everywhere • The administrator can set the retention period for control — helping reduce content development and spam and have it automatically deleted after a implementation time with its reusable site component specified number of days. architecture. The Web Content Management services help organizations to manage the lifecycle of content with Support for third-party software/hardware: a built-in approval process (via built-in workflow) and to • improve responsiveness by quickly updating information, APIs for integration with anti-virus software enables in minutes rather than days, helping to reduce risk and development of custom solutions for sophisticated associated costs. Built on standards, it is security-rich, anti-virus protection easily deployed and can be integrated across existing • Extended platform support • infrastructures to take full advantage of current IT Extended database support investments. Provides standards-based messaging capabilities that can Web Content Management features leverage existing IT skills and technologies: Web Content Management is a flexible, scalable and configurable Web Content Management system with a portlet-style front end that seamlessly integrates into the

-5- A06-0050 IBM Workplace environment. It is an open, • Solve Webmaster and IT bottlenecks of content standards-based product that uses a point-and-click management by separating presentation (Web design) interface that gives your staff an instant way to find and from content, since each is managed separately personalize essential enterprise information — instead of • Improve information access for customers, suppliers, waiting indefinitely for it to be extracted from a multitude Business Partners and employees of repositories, systems and obscure applications by • Allow easy creation of content using familiar available overworked developers — and create their own portlets desktop applications fast. Features include: • Improve customer, Business Partner and supplier support with more current and relevant information • End-to-end Web Content Management — So the • Improve business productivity content can be created (using a WYSIWYG rich text • Integrate with back-end systems without editor), managed and published to multiple Web sites re-engineering and reuse legacy data and information as well as IBM Workplace Collaborative Services. from many sources or applications • • Integrate with native authoring tools A collaborative environment that helps make it easy • for users of all levels to work together and simplifies Provide a consistent look and feel and consistent Web content review and approval workflow processes. content worldwide • Personalize content to the user and/or audience to • Personalization that dynamically delivers content that increase repeat visitors to sites is relevant to the users and their roles. • Integrate with portals, personalization and shopping cart for e-commerce, software configuration • — Rapid portal development Where Portlets are management, digital asset management and document created using a simple point-and-click interface within management  WebSphere Portal Server, completely removing the • Decrease redundancy need for Java development skills. Now anyone can • Enhance customer service for improved loyalty access and personalize all content, freeing IT staff to • Work with open standards focus on mission-critical tasks. Learning capabilities • Better managed business content — Where content and components from Workplace Web Content Workplace Collaboration Services includes a powerful, Management Web applications and Internet, intranet standards-based learning system that provides users with and extranet sites are immediately available in the personalized, on-line learning resources in the context of portal. Users create, manage and publish information day-to-day work activities. Supported through the straight into the portal for high availability of accurate, integrated learning services, it provides a variety of relevant and up-to-date information across all administrative capabilities that enable you to more organizational boundaries. efficiently organize and manage their classroom-based • Extensive worldwide language support for and e-learning activities, resources and courseware. Skills management tools help managers identify international organizations (including support for ′ bidirectional content entry for Arabic and Hebrew individuals skills gaps and develop effective training languages). Support is provided for the entry and programs to address them. The automatic assignment management of all Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 of learning activities, as part of a flexible employee languages. development plan, ensures that the appropriate information is delivered to the users so they can work • A user interface that is portlet-based, consisting of towards closing their skills gaps. The learning services portlets for authoring, preview and rendering/delivery, also feature an authoring tool for creating customized providing a single user interface system for all portal courseware and offline access to courseware for mobile content management applications. These facilitate workers. System reports track individuals′ training common access, deployment and other administration activities and resource usage. Enabling you to manage tasks via a common look and feel interface and your entire training program worldwide from a single provide enhanced authoring capabilities. integrated collaborative environment, the learning • services can deliver a variety of learning experiences to Enterprise user management and directory support by groups of students, wherever they are located. Also, it using WebSphere Member Manager as the core can use customer-supplied job profile information to member management service to identify both content deliver roles-based learning resources right to the authors and consumers. With this new feature, users desktop, so workers can access personalized, relevant can be managed across Portal, Web Content information and courseware in a “just-in-time” fashion. Management services, document management and By leveraging collaborative tools such as Web other compliant systems with single sign-on capability conferencing, chat rooms, discussion and document leveraging existing LDAP infrastructure and providing sharing, the integrated learning services provide an  integration with Tivoli systems. invaluable collaborative environment for learning, leading Web Content Management benefits to improvements in course completion and retention rates. The integrated learning services can help enhance Web Content Management services can streamline the the learning experience, letting students communicate Web Content Management process, help you shorten time with their classmates and instructors either immediately to market, reduce costs, streamline business processes, or at their convenience. enhance customer service and improve information availability. In addition, it helps to: Learning features • • Streamline the Web Content Management process by Is an easy-to-use, flexible and configurable learning managing the lifecycle of content with built-in approval management solution that enhances the IBM process via built-in workflow Workplace environment with real-time access to • Improve responsiveness by quickly deploying learning resources. information in minutes versus days • Helps organizations to more cost-effectively manage • Publish faster in multiple locations because of their classroom-based and e-learning training component architecture′s re-use of components programs and content and adapt them to changing organizational requirements.

A06-0050 -6- • Has built-in authoring tool that helps people across the enterprise. Skills management tools help disseminate knowledge by developing customized ensure that employees get the training best suited to their courseware. job role and performance goals and reporting tools ′ • measure each employee s progress. In general, the Includes Web service APIs to automate external system can act as a central point for organizing and processes and help reduce administrative overhead. administering all training activities, courseware and • Provides collaborative capabilities to support live curricula, which can vastly improve a training learning session scheduling and class interactions. department′s efficiency and save on training expenses. It can help deliver major business benefits, including • Supports industry standards so you can reuse your lower training costs, higher employee productivity and existing third-party courseware libraries. reduced administrative expenses. Also, businesses can benefit with the ability to easily customize content, which • Includes skills management tools to help identify enables their organization to quickly develop and deliver student developmental needs and design training training to enhance the skills and performance of their activities that directly contribute to organizational employees. The learning services can help: goals. • • Provides organizations with a streamlined, more Develop personalized education plans to help flexible way to educate employees on the skills they employees improve expertise and/or develop new need to comply with industry/government skills to better manage job responsibilities requirements, stay competitive and respond to • Allow students to self-manage their training programs changes within their marketplace. and access learning resources on an as-needed basis • Can help organizations achieve cost savings and to support better decision-making productivity improvements by delivering on-line • Reduce travel and training costs with an on-line training versus sending employees to classroom learning environment that supports remote and mobile sessions, providing measurable ROI. workers • Provides a single, company-wide access point for • Improve productivity with the right learning tools in professional development via the My Learning portlet context of users′ role and the business activity on that incorporates pertinent educational resources onto which they are working everyone′s desktop. The My Learning portlet is a powerful productivity tool that provides people with • Accelerate business processes by providing people “any time, any where” access to information. with access to the information and people they need to solve a problem, reducing the time to takes to • Enables employees to self-manage their learning perform a task activities, enroll in desired classes and keep updated on the status of their training programs. • Train employees at their desktop on business-critical challenges such as new product introduction or new • Delivers a personalized learning environment that can hire training be adapted to fit specific user roles, industries, regions or job functions. The portlets′ content can be • Meet ever-changing regulatory compliance challenges customized to suit a user′s job role, industry and with tracking and reporting of worker training activities profile, delivering an appropriate learning environment tailored to each user. Flexible licensing options • Includes an easy-to-use courseware development and IBM provides flexible licensing options for customers management authoring tool, complemented by whose business needs are better met by purchasing courseware administration functions. The authoring individual collaboration capabilities. The following tool enables subject matter experts to create and enhanced IBM Workplace software products may be deliver internally developed courseware for projects licensed individually: such as new product introductions, customer training • IBM Workplace Team Collaboration or teaching “best practices” to workers. • IBM Workplace Documents • Produces a variety of reports on students′ training • IBM Workplace Messaging activities. Activity reporting is often an important • IBM Workplace Web Content Management component of structuring certification programs and • IBM Workplace Web Content Management, Standard for measuring compliance with new industry and Edition government regulations. • IBM Workplace Collaborative Learning • IBM Workplace Managed Client • Has an open architecture and support for industry standards that enables integration with supported Accessibility by people with disabilities third-party back-office systems, such as SAP and PeopleSoft. In addition, it supports industry standards such as Shareable Content Object Reference IBM is committed to providing accessible Workplace Model (SCORM) and Aviation Industry CBT Committee products for use by people with disabilities. (AICC), which provide compatibility with existing courseware libraries. Product positioning • Provides the option for organizations to offer their employees a wide variety of third-party developed, The path to IBM Workplace software products standards-based courseware from IBM Business Partners. IBM is delivering a clear path today for organizations to choose simplification and reduced cost of ownership for Learning benefits their own future. You will be able to leverage existing software assets such as Lotus Notes and Domino or The learning services solve the problem of how to quickly WebSphere Portal and still take advantage of the develop, deliver and manage up-to-date training and capabilities in IBM Workplace Collaboration Services. just-in-time learning resources to a dispersed audience Providing flexible licensing options, you can also purchase

-7- A06-0050 one or more collaborative capabilities individually when develop B2B, B2E and B2C portals. It is a that choice can better meet their specific business needs. complementary purchase for organizations that want Allowing you to quickly realize benefits with simplicity, to combine rich collaboration capabilities into a portal flexibility and rapid time to value at whatever point your to maximize simplified access and interaction with organization is starting, IBM can show you how you can other people within an integrated business application grow. environment. This represents a complete solution that integrates the people, applications, content and With new products and enhancements made to existing processes across their enterprise and uses IBM IBM Workplace software products, we continue to support Workplace software product capabilities. the future growth plan for all of our current customers, whether Lotus Notes and Domino-based or Portal-based. • For more information on WebSphere Portal, visit In addition, we can clearly identify how these products can benefit current J2EE-based organizations and how http://www.ibm.com/websphere/portal these open standard products can be integrated with infrastructure and application investments from other • For IBM Workplace software product roadmaps and vendors. There is a path for everyone. additional information, visit As a customer, you can: http://www.ibm.com/lotus/workplace • Continue to derive value from current and future releases of Lotus Notes and Domino and other Lotus software products, as they can be integrated into the Reference information IBM Workplace environment using new portlets and tools Refer to A05-0045. dated May 17, 2005. • Purchase and implement IBM WebSphere Portal to Trade-marks extend the reach of current investments • Workplace Managed Client, iSeries, Workplace Messaging, Integrate open standards-based IBM Workplace Cloudscape, Workplace Web Content Management, and software products into your existing supported Workplace Collaborative Learning are trade-marks of infrastructure International Business Machines Corporation used under license by IBM Canada Ltd. • Be assured that existing investments in Lotus software Presentation Manager, Domino, Lotus Notes, DB2, Lotus, are planned to be carried forward to comparable WebSphere, Tivoli, and Notes are registered trade-marks of components and capabilities within the IBM Workplace International Business Machines Corporation used under family of integrated collaborative applications license by IBM Canada Ltd. Windows and Microsoft are trade-marks of Microsoft As a WebSphere Portal customer, you can: Corporation. Java is a trade-mark of , Inc. • Continue with WebSphere Portal and access your Linux is a trade-mark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, Lotus Domino data via portlets other countries or both. • Other company, product and service names may be Purchase and implement IBM Workplace collaboration trade-marks or service marks of others. products to extend the business integration power of WebSphere Portal by introducing rich collaborative capabilities and functions As a new customer, you can: • Use IBM Workplace software products as the foundation for your collaborative infrastructure. • Use IBM Workplace software products to enhance your existing supported infrastructure by adding collaborative capabilities. Since IBM Workplace software products are based on open standards, prior infrastructure investments can be leveraged. • Purchase both WebSphere Portal and IBM Workplace software products for a complete set of capabilities that integrate people, processes, applications and content across your organization. How WebSphere Portal fits: • IBM Workplace software products contain the user interface element of WebSphere Portal to provide flexibility for deploying collaborative environments to meet specific business needs and to provide a common interface, which can be tuned to the tasks of individuals. When purchasing one or more IBM Workplace software products, you can use WebSphere Portal to surface only Lotus software products. A WebSphere Portal license is required for any use outside the context of Lotus software products.

• Market-leading WebSphere Portal provides users an integrated, secure access point to business processes, information and third-party applications so you can

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