If your company composes email messages where there are more people in the address list than there is text in the message...you might be a Lotus Domino candidate.

If your company has business processes where you can not afford to miss a key step along that process...you might be a Lotus Domino candidate.

Why Lotus Domino?

Lotus offers an amazing amount of functionality packaged into one server:

• Messaging, Calendaring and Scheduling - access your eMail using a the Notes client software or via a web browser
• A complete web server
• Workflow, Groupware and Collaborative applications
• Templates that allow you to immediately begin using the robust functionality of Domino
• The ability to integrate with other data sources and technologies
• Standards based...really!

Domino provides you with tremendous development options. Your company may not need to roll-out the Lotus Notes client to everyone's desktop. Lotus has focused heavily on providing the rich functionality of the Notes server to the web via browsers. In fact many companies choose to use Domino as their web server and not even roll-out the Notes client to the enterprise desktop machines. The company can still rollout basic web mail or the new iNotes web mail client, the most robust web mail application today. In addition they can use templates to build applications that provide discussion databases to facilitate knowledge management and collaboration. Applications built with the Lotus standard templates are of course generic but highly valuable and many companies do not have a need to customize these application beyond their vanilla design. For more specific, customized and high-powered applications, Domino provides a rich integrated development environment (IDE) that allows developers to take advantage of the most modern programming techniques like HTML, Java, CSS, XML and more. Web applications can be developed using Domino much more rapidly than with conventional means because you have everything you need in one Domino server. The Domino server is your database, your web server, your graphical user interface, your middleware, your Java servlet engine, everything! Of course, very high-end applications may require a more complicated architecture incorporating a relational database server such as SQL Server, but there are many opportunities to utilize the Power of Domino to create real world business solutions.

The following are excerpts from Lotus's web site to give you a brief glimpse into Lotus's philosophy: