Portal Software promotes integration and collaboration.
Press Release Summary:
IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace combines collaborative strengths of Lotus® Workplace capabilities with integration power of WebSphere® Portal Enable. With common platform, package provides single interface to work with all applications, content, processes, and people. Environment combines capabilities for Web email, personal calendaring, instant messaging, and Web conferencing in addition to team spaces, learning, document management, and Web content management.
Original Press Release:
IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace Helps Simplify your Collaborative and Integration Needs
Overview
Customers are demanding software that is easier to buy, easier to use, and easier to manage. IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace offers the industry's most powerful collaboration and portal software, in one package, for one easy price - delivering a cost effective way for you to combine the collaborative strengths of Lotus® Workplace capabilities with the integration power of WebSphere® Portal Enable, in one easy to buy, easy to use, and easy to manage offering.
With a common platform and a single product number, IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace is easy and cost effective to deploy. And it's the industry's first software package that combines a complete Web-based collaborative software portfolio in a portal environment.
Benefits:
· Cost effective, easy, unified way to combine the integration capabilities of WebSphere Portal Enable with full communication and collaboration capabilities of Lotus Workplace products.
· Combines Web e-mail, personal calendaring, presence awareness, instant messaging, Web conferencing, team spaces, learning, document management, and Web content management into a portal easily accessed from virtually any where across or beyond an organization.
· Simplifies the way for you to buy, use, and manage software.
- One easy price
- Better value proposition than purchasing stand-alone products individually - especially from multiple vendors
- Easier to track one offering rather than multiple products
- Can help drive down total cost of ownership
· Simplifies access to people, business processes, and information.
· Provides a single interface to work with all applications, content, processes, and people for a unified user experience.
· Provides easy access to collaborative capabilities from any Web-based desktop.
· Provides common administration and management in a unified J2EE environment.
· Can be tailored to specific user roles, teams, communities, or tasks, and customized for specific industry or business solutions.
· Provides a flexible, open, and extensible framework to build successful business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-customer (B2C) portals with collaborative capabilities accessible on demand.
· Offers a scalable and secure business environment where people dynamically interact with integrated business processes, peers, partners, suppliers, and customers.
At a glance
IBM Software Solution for On Demand Workplace's powerful capability delivers a common J2EE infrastructure for a single price. It can help organizations increase user productivity, simplify IT management, and decrease total cost of ownership.
This offering includes:
· Portal: IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms
· Web e-mail: IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging(TM)
· Learning management and tracking: IBM Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning
· Presence awareness, instant messaging, Web conferencing, customizable team spaces: IBM Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration
· Web content management: IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management
· Document management: IBM Lotus Workplace Documents
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001
Planned availability dates
· August 3, 2004: Electronic software delivery
· August 13, 2004: Media and documentation
