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12.4 Lotus Workplace<br />

556 Lotus Security Handbook<br />

Lotus Workplace is the new offering from Lotus which embraces <strong>IBM</strong>’s<br />

e-business on demand strategy, which can be summed up in the following<br />

sentence:<br />

An enterprise whose business processes — integrated end-to-end across the<br />

company and with key partners, suppliers and customers — can respond with<br />

speed to any customer demand, market opportunity, or external threat.<br />

Lotus Workplace integrates multiple collaborative capabilities into a single<br />

secure, reliable, open platform that is easily managed. Lotus Workplace currently<br />

includes the following products, which are designed to be used in combination or<br />

separately to provide a unified collaborative environment to meet changing<br />

business needs:<br />

► Lotus Workplace Messaging provides a cost-effective way to extend the<br />

reach of the existing messaging infrastructure to the rest of the organization<br />

and offers an affordable e-mail system for all employees. It offers an intuitive<br />

no-training user interface, as well as flexible client deployment options<br />

supporting portal or kiosk configurations, POP3, IMAP and Microsoft Outlook.<br />

Among the new features of this offering are: portlet-based user interface;<br />

integrated presence awareness and instant messaging; added printing<br />

features; end user features (for example, spell check, user preferences); user<br />

personalization through WebSphere member manager; and people finder.<br />

► Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration provides self-service team<br />

workspaces and easy to use Web conferencing. Its goal is to help individuals,<br />

teams, and entire organizations, together with their customers, Business<br />

Partners, and suppliers, be better coordinated, better informed, and more<br />

resilient. This offering provides the following benefits: it increases productivity<br />

by connecting geographically dispersed teams; permits users to share<br />

documents; offers discussion forums; provides self-service membership<br />

controls; permits users to share presentations and meeting materials; offers<br />

presence awareness as well as instant messaging; and, finally, offers a<br />

people finder service.<br />

► Lotus Workplace Web Content Management provides content publishing<br />

and authoring for non-technical users, in that it offers an easy way to create,<br />

manage, and publish content for an organization's Web sites. It helps resolve<br />

IT and webmaster bottlenecks by placing content creation and management<br />

in the hands of content experts for author once, publish everywhere control,<br />

reducing development and implementation time. Specifically, it provides:<br />

collaborative content creation, content management (simple to complex<br />

content), and content delivery.<br />

► Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning provides learning management<br />

as well as course scheduling, enrollment, and tracking. In short, it provides

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