IBM Lotus Notes 8 and Domino 8, and IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator 8
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IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0320, dated August 17, 2007 IBM Lotus Notes 8 and Domino 8, and IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator 8 Key prerequisites .......................................2 At a glance Description .................................................3 Statement of direction ................................5 With a myriad of product enhancements, Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Reference information ............................... 5 delivers an industry-leading user experience, breakthrough Availability of national languages ...............5 application-delivery capabilities, and significantly expanded product capabilities. Overview IBM Lotus Notes® and Domino® 8 software continues to extend IBM Lotus® software leadership in messaging and collaboration with an intuitive user interface, powerful new functionality, and new tools for getting things done. Built on a new Eclipse-based architecture, Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software offers a modern, Web-like look and feel in a familiar Lotus Notes format, which presents the tools you need, when and where you need them. Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software includes integrated office productivity tools for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Organizations can also use Lotus Notes® and Domino 8 software to quickly assemble components into customized, integrated applications — also called composite applications — without writing extensive code. With increased ease of deploying, upgrading, and administering the product, Lotus shows once again the investment and continued innovation they are making with their flagship product, all with a focus on addressing the total cost of ownership. New features that make this the most powerful release of Lotus Notes and Domino ever: • "Open" button for fast access to most often used applications. • Conversation mode that lets you gather and review e-mail threads based on subject headers. • Sidebar that displays critical information and alerts including IBM Lotus Sametime® 7.5.1 contacts, day-at-a-glance, RSS, and ATOM Feeds. • Context sensitive toolbars and customizable view preferences. • Omnipresent search center for e-mail, calendar, the Web, and your desktop. • Support for activity-centric computing. • Word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation applications, which support OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft™ Office, and IBM Lotus SmartSuite® file formats. • Ability to export documents to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). • Collaboration history that lets you search and view your collaboration history with specific people. IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0320 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 • Server-managed provisioning • Cross-platform support for both client and server. • Multi-directory integration improvements provided through limited entitlement to IBM Tivoli® Directory Integrator that accompanies Lotus Domino 8 software. • Mail recall and new cluster replication technology that helps improve replication performance and can reduce network usage. Users will benefit from interface changes that make their experience more consistent and thus can help make them more effective and productive. Feature enhancements such as in-line spell checking, type ahead addressing, e-mail "conversation threading," and numerous other changes to mail, calendaring, and contact management will result in enhanced user benefits. With a myriad of product enhancements, Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software delivers an industry-leading user experience, breakthrough applications delivery capabilities, and significantly expanded product capabilities. Key prerequisites Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections. Planned availability dates Electronic software delivery: • August 17, 2007: English • September 10, 2007: Japanese • September 19, 2007: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese-Brazilian, Korean, Chinese - Traditional and Simplified, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish • January 23, 2008: Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polish • April 2, 2008: Catalan, Slovenian, Slovakian, Thai Physical media and documentation: • September 21, 2007: English • October 26, 2007: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese-Brazilian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese - Traditional and Simplified, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish • February 29, 2008: Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polish • May 2, 2008: Catalan, Slovenian, Slovakian, Thai Specific national language version details for physical media are listed in the Availability of national languages section of the announcement letter. See the complete letter for globalization details. IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0320 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 Description IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 software continues to extend IBM Lotus software leadership in messaging and collaboration with an intuitive user interface, powerful new functionality, and new tools for getting things accomplished. Lotus Notes 8 offers a modern look and feel in a familiar Lotus Notes format, which presents the tools you need, when and where you need them. Lotus Notes 8 introduces a client side architecture based on the Eclipse framework. This delivers the capability to run Eclipse-based code within the Lotus Notes rich client. Eclipse plug-ins can be used in the Lotus Notes sidebar or can be wired together with Lotus Notes applications as a composite application, to provide quick access to your business information in one view. You can also extend the client program, for example, adding search engines to the current list and customizing the user interface (UI). With Lotus Notes 8 users will also receive a set of IBM productivity tools. These tools allow for creation of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics files that are compatible with Open Document Format (ODF) and other commonly used formats. IBM Lotus Domino 8, the next installment of the security-rich messaging and collaboration platform, includes improvements in performance, administration, serviceability, and, in most cases, total cost of ownership (TCO). IBM Lotus Domino server software combines reliable, security-rich e-mail, calendar, and scheduling capabilities with a powerful platform for business collaboration. It offers solutions for messaging, customized business applications — or both — on a wide variety of operating systems. Lotus Domino, in combination with the rich Lotus Notes client, helps enhance employee productivity, streamlines business processes, and improve overall business responsiveness. IBM Lotus Domino 8 supports an open application infrastructure. This new version will enable you to deploy composite applications in Lotus Notes 8 and extend Web services support, including: • IBM Lotus Domino support for composite applications, including the ability to provision composite applications • Web services consumer support, which allows Lotus Domino applications to call other Web services With improved manageability and security features, Lotus Domino 8 builds on its position as the industry-leading collaboration server software in flexibility, security features, and integrated messaging and collaboration. A few highlights are: • Numerous improvements in Lotus Domino domain monitoring, including additional event probes and corrective actions • Integration with Tivoli Enterprise™ Console software • Improved AdminP performance and management to increase rename speed • Policy management of inbox cleanup to help manage inbox sizes • Ability to prevent access to Internet password fields in the Lotus Domino directory • Internet account lockout due to password entry failure • Support for Red Hat Linux™ 5 • Use of IBM DB2® data store on selected server platforms as an alternative to traditional .NSF, enabling relational database access and queries There is also improved performance and scalability, such as: • Brand new cluster replication implementation that can significantly improve performance and reduce I/O requirements and latency • "Build on first use" sort order feature that can significantly improve server performance, and help reduce storage costs and I/O requirements • Numerous additional performance and I/O reduction improvements IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0320 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 New features of IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator™ 8 include: • Virtual fields key synchronization: Virtual fields activity keys can now be automatically synchronized on a periodic basis based on a background process. • Virtual documents update event synchronization: Virtual Documents activities that are synchronizing update events in an external system can now do this when using external keys. With this functionality, all external events, (create, update, and delete) can now use either the internal or external key approach for virtual documents. • Lotus Connector automatically detects the external systems codepage where the RDBMS client supports it. This allows users to have a single Lotus Enterprise Integrator server talking to the different backend using different codepages for each connection. The RDBMS clients that support this are Oracle and SAP applications. • Improved diagnostic capabilities over previous versions of Lotus Enterprise Integrator. IBM Lotus Domino Designer® 8 Lotus Notes and Domino provide a high productivity application development environment that supports the rapid creation, modification,