IBM Software Messaging and Collaboration

Simple, cost-effective collaboration and messaging for small and midsize businesses 2 Simple, cost-effective collaboration and messaging for small and midsize businesses

Meeting the unique needs of small and midsize businesses Small and midsize businesses face unique collaboration chal- lenges—challenges that are magnified in today’s economic climate. Budgets are tight. It’s hard to find and retain skilled talent. Both IT and the business at large need robust solutions that will improve productivity and workflows; be cost-effective, easy to implement and easy to manage; and be customizable for unique business needs. But just as important, they need to create more productive relationships with their customers, partners and employees. And they need an efficient way to bring together the right people to solve problems and innovate around the goals of the business. IBM Lotus® software is designed to provide simplified solutions and delivery models based on the needs of small and midsize businesses. IBM understands the need for cost-effective solutions—with knowledge gained from 20 years of experience in thousands of small and midsize busi- ness engagements.

With collaborative solutions from IBM, small and midsize businesses can:

• Stay within budget while delivering best-in-class, collabora- Leveraging the cloud to help reduce costs tive solutions. with IBM LotusLive services • Provide mobile and remote workers with access to e-mail, Designed specifically to help businesses move from extensive calendaring and collaborative applications. capital outlays for infrastructure to a more predictable financial • Automate and speed workflows to improve consistency and model, IBM LotusLive™ online services offer easy access to reduce errors. security-rich e-mail, Web conferencing, instant messaging, • Scale to address their growing needs. file sharing, relationship management and project tracking through the cloud. A pay-as-you-go model, LotusLive services integrate with your existing infrastructure to help reduce costs by virtually eliminating the need to buy, install, maintain and upgrade software. LotusLive services are a cost-effective way for your organization to reduce time and travel costs through online collaboration and to expand your employee and partner network through the use of social software. For more infor- mation, visit: .com IBM Software 3

Enabling low-touch collaboration with the Accelerate the time to value of your Start appliance software investment The IBM Lotus Foundations™ Start software appliance is a IBM Software Services for Lotus and select IBM Business simple, cost-competitive solution that offers e-mail, collaboration, Partners can help you better understand your technology security-rich remote access and much more. Offered and sup- options and how to leverage Lotus collaboration solutions to ported exclusively through IBM Business Partners, the Lotus help you lower your IT total cost of ownership and increase Foundations Start appliance is a plug-and-go, all-in-one, self- your organization’s productivity. Find out more about the configuring and self-managing solution. It is designed especially technical consulting, training and Software Accelerated Value for companies that do not have an IT staff, do not have the Program services available to help you accelerate your success bandwidth to work on the cloud, or need to keep data onsite with IBM technology. For more information, go to: because of application workloads or regulatory compliance. A ibm.com/software/lotus/services highly robust, security-rich platform, the Lotus Foundations Start appliance provides companies with the essential software they Lotus knows the needs of small and need to facilitate communication, improve productivity and pro- midsize businesses tect critical business information. For more information, go to: At IBM, we want to help small and midsize businesses find the ibm.com/lotus/foundations/start right messaging and collaboration solution. To help you get there, we’re offering a download of our award-winning Lotus Gaining optimal flexibility with Lotus ™ office productivity software, at no charge, from Domino Express software symphony.lotus.com. And to help you better understand the IBM Lotus Domino® Express software is customizable to address advantage of working through the cloud, we’re offering the the unique needs of companies that have 1,000 or fewer employ- LotusLive collaboration service for 30 days at no charge. To ees, an IT staff and an existing network. Lotus Domino Express find an IBM Business Partner to discuss the unique needs of software includes a no-charge, open development environment your business, visit: and supports thousands of independent software vendor (ISV) http://d03bphrb.partner.boulder.ibm.com/bpconnections/ applications. For more information, go to: bpcms.nsf/PublicSearchGUI ibm.com/lotus/dominoexpress Lotus Symphony software Lotus Notes and Domino software can help minimize deploy- ment and administration costs. Discover additional cost savings with Lotus Symphony software, freely available to all users, potentially saving hundreds of dollars per user. Download your copy at: ibm.com/lotus/symphony © Copyright IBM Corporation 2010

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