Lotus Domino Services
Codea provides wide-ranging consultancy, development and support for Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes. As being associated with Lotus and an IBM , we have development experience of core Lotus Notes components and the new collaborative technologies, such as Sametime, QuickPlace, Learning Space and Domino.doc.
Codea has worked closely with IBM on several occasions to deliver joint solutions to our customers.
In addition to the deep technology expertise, the Lotus Notes Practice team also has functional domain knowledge in areas that include client server & web based application project management.
Lotus Notes Consultancy Services
 Java technology
Development On Lotus Notes
Custom Application Development
- Traditional Domino Designer skills using forms, views, and Lotus Script etc.
- Backend specialists - such as Java, Corba and web services
-Integration specialists - including Notes LEI, SQL integration, and Java enterprise integration including ERP integration
Outsourced Product Development - on Lotus Notes
Administration & Support
- Adhoc telephone or onsite support
- SLA based Support agreement
- Outsourced hosting, management, backup and security of your server
Lotus Notes Licensing
- Lotus Notes software products sales
- Software installation support
Ebusiness Based Development
- Establishing Intranet/Extranet using Lotus Notes/Domino
- Developing web sites using Lotus Notes (on specific user needs)
Lotus Notes developers team
The Codea Lotus team offers a full-cycle development of the applications based on Lotus Notes / Domino platforms.
Codea Lotus team is comprised of the IT specialists with strong background in development of Lotus Notes / Domino based applications.
Although the team is highly proficient is other IT areas, Lotus based solutions is a core specialization of the department.
Having such specialization enables the team to further grow its expertise in that field and provide our customers with very competitive Lotus Notes/Domino based solutions.
There are four types of solutions typically produced by our Lotus professionals. They are as follows:
Lotus Notes / Domino based basic and specialized applications,
Advanced integrated systems,
Application integration solutions, and
Other Lotus Notes / Domino based specific solutions.
Solutions provided by Codea are HR Workflow, Quality assurance document management system, Project Management System, Order management system, Internet search engine,
Team management system reporter, etc.
Before the team starts developing any solution, it conducts a thorough analysis of the customer business needs to determine the most effective way to approach and resolve a customer's business problem.
Extensive business experience allows the team to chose the tools and technologies that provide the best possible result to the customers in terms of money invested, time spent, and reliability of
the employed technologies.
IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server
IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server is a Lotus Domino server license option for deploying a company-wide e-mail and calendar infrastructure with basic collaboration tools. Lotus Domino Messaging Server combines full support for the latest Internet mail standards with industry-leading messaging, calendar and scheduling, discussion database and reference database capabilities - all in one manageable and reliable package.
Capabilities
E-mail, calendar and scheduling
Personal information management (PIM) functions, including personal directory and personal journal
Discussion databases
Reference databases with basic workflow for document review
Blog template for access by Lotus Notes and Web browser users
RSS feed generation template
Lotus Domino partitioning (the capability to run more than one instance of Lotus Domino on the same machine using one copy of the Lotus Domino code)
Integrated administration and systems management tools
Features and benefits
IBM Lotus Domino software provides world-class collaboration capabilities that can be deployed as a core e-mail and enterprise scheduling infrastructure, as a business application platform, or both.
Lotus Domino server software and its client software options deliver a reliable, security-rich messaging and collaboration environment that helps companies enhance the productivity of people, streamline business processes and improve overall business responsiveness.
Benefits
Extends messaging with built-in collaboration tools
Offers flexibility and choice in hardware platform, operating system, directory and client access
Provides industry leading security features to help safeguard business-critical information
Can help you reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) by efficiently using CPU resources, network bandwidth and disk storage
Maximizes server availability with advanced clustering, transaction logging, server fault recovery, and automated diagnostic tools
Helps reduce time and costs associated with deploying and managing your infrastructure, through advanced administration features
Supports Web services and open standards and offers tools for integration with existing applications
Can contribute to rapid return on investment (ROI) with Lotus Domino software- powered solutions for your business processes, such as Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain, and Project Tracking
Lotus Notes Products
Decision support system for Notes
The product enables users to automate conducting online questionnaires, surveys and votes. The decision support system could be used for gathering customer assessments on the customer service quality, collecting personnel opinions about various aspects of their work with a company, as well as for collecting many other kinds of useful internal and external information. The questionnaires and surveys could be answered by company employees, clients, partners, job applicants, etc.
Benefits
User-friendly tool for people with any level of computer literacy;
Allows to collect and aggregate valuable information;
Best fit for companies with geographically distributed branches;
Questionnaires could be filled in both from Lotus Notes Base and via Internet browser;
Rich set of voting options available:
1. Open and secret vote could be carried out,
2. One or several choice answers could be picked,
3. New answer choice (text or numerical) could be input by vote participant.
Key Features
Creating vote/ questionnaire requests;
A vote request creator specifies the following parameters:
1. Author,
2. Voting topic, questions description, range of possible answers,
3. Vote type,
4. List of vote participants,
5. Date and time when voting ends.
Activating vote requests;
An authorized person sends e-mail notifications containing Lotus Notes and Web links to the questionnaires to the survey participants by pressing "Send notification" button. Voting process could be initiated by clicking the "Activate" button. Upon activating request, most request parameters can't be changed.
Voting;
Finishing voting automatically;
Voting ends automatically at midnight of the specified date, or by manual command from a vote request creator. After finishing voting, all unfilled questionnaire forms can't be edited.
Viewing vote results;
Voting results could be viewed in a consolidated form or as a voting log. Results of the open voting could be seen by every participating individual.
Top 10 reasons to choose Lotus Domino server for corporate messaging and collaboration
Here are ten compelling ways in which IBM Lotus Domino 7 software can help organizations address three key business issues:
Maximizing the value of your IT investments, given lack of resources and minimal budgets
Benefiting from improved performance, scalability, reliability, availability and security features
Increasing return on investments in applications and employees (your human resources)
1. Opportunity to support more users with fewer server and network resources
Lotus Domino scalability enhancements, a primary design point of Version 7, offer the potential for server consolidation.
Network compression and streaming replication capabilities of Lotus Domino software can help reduce the amount of data transmitted over your network.
2. Potentially reduce time and costs for software deployment and configuration
Powerful tools provided with Lotus Domino software are designed to help you monitor server health, identify and address issues before they can cause harm, analyze server usage and predict future hardware and software needs.
Policy-based administration allows you to easily set standards and enforce IT policies across your company.
The Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade feature enables installation and configuration of users' machines without visiting a single desktop.
3. Leverage integrated capabilities
In addition to e-mail, calendar, group scheduling and personal information management tools, Lotus Domino server software offers team discussion, reference library, and blog application templates. Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Web Access client options offer allow access to all of the above plus instant messaging and (optional) Web conferencing integration.
Lotus Notes and Domino software provides companies with an effective way to manage conference rooms and meeting resources, such as audiovisual equipment, online meetings and more, with a centralized database.
With Lotus Domino 7.0.2, you can make information in a Lotus Domino database accessible through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) services.
4. Preserve existing investments while moving forward with a solid roadmap
Through a steady evolution, Lotus Notes and Domino software continues to provide cumulative business value without disruptive migration. IBM backs this claim with a sixteen-year proven history of investment protection, high return on investment and seamless upgrades.
Lotus Notes and Domino 7 supports a wide range of programmability options and open standards, enabling you to leverage the skills of your development teams, extend the value of your existing applications and facilitate the development and deployment of new solutions.
A clear and solid roadmap indicates that Lotus Domino-based applications can be easily adapted for future user experience and innovative interaction models including Lotus Notes 8, previously code-named "Hannover".
5. Provide infrastructure flexibility
Lotus Domino supports a wide range of server operating system platforms - IBM AIX, IBM i5/OS, IBM z/OS, Linux (for Intel and System z) and Sun Solaris, as well as Microsoft Windows. Many of these operating system platforms are 64-bit.
You can choose the client access that is right for your infrastructure environment and needs. In addition to the Lotus Notes client, you can use a Web browser client, an Internet client or a supported mobile device. And you can even opt to use Microsoft, Linux or Macintosh workstations.
Lotus Domino lets you leverage your current directory infrastructure through support for Active Directory and LDAP. Lotus Domino 7 also offers an option to use IBM DB2 Universal Database software as a data store to consolidate Lotus Domino enterprise data.
6. Take advantage of ongoing performance enhancements
Lotus Domino 7 server performance enhancements support dramatic scalability increases for Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino Web Access users. Benchmarks supporting this claim were performed using NotesBench R6 Mail and R6iNotes workloads.
With client performance enhancements in Lotus Domino Web Access 6.5.4 and 7, users have reported improved response times of up to 40 percent.
Performance enhancements in Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook, introduced in 6.5.4, can significantly reduce application launch time.
7. Provide high availability for your information and your environment
Lotus Domino provides many capabilities to help maximize the availability of your mission-critical information and help reduce downtime, including proactive monitoring tools, transaction logging and server fault recovery.
Advanced clustering technology provides failover for data as well as processor resources.
8. Protect your information
Security-rich functionality is the foundation of Lotus Notes and Domino. Advanced and proven security features include multi-level access control from the server all the way down to a field on a form, server and local file encryption, digital signatures, support for Internet security standards and more.
Powerful antispam features can help you manage mass volumes of unwanted mail.
9. Extend your applications to serve the needs of an innovative business
Lotus Domino-based collaborative applications can contribute to high return on investment. Many case studies give testimony to the business value of applications developed in-house with Lotus Domino Designer software, custom-designed by IBM Business Partners, or available from independent software vendors.
Lotus Notes and Domino 7 and IBM WebSphere Portal offer tools to help extend the reach of Lotus Domino applications to business portals.
IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator software enables you to extend Lotus Domino applications with real-time access to data sources such as IBM DB2 Universal Database, Oracle, Sybase and more -- with point-and-click ease. Or schedule high performance, scalable exchange of data between Lotus Domino and external systems.
10. Enable users to be more productive
Lotus Notes and Domino 7 software includes many features and enhancements designed to help you focus on top-priority work, locate information easily and efficiently, collaborate with colleagues, customers and suppliers -- and do more with less to help reduce total cost of ownership.
The Lotus Notes client now offers out-of-the-box SAP software integration, blog capabilities, enhanced calendar interoperability and the ability to take your Lotus Notes desktop with you on a USB device.
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