Many choose Lotus software for its multi-platform application development features beyond just email -- for discussion databases, dashboards, and people-driven applications like customer relationship management, help desk or supply chain management. You can also integrate Lotus Domino applications with WebSphere Portal solutions and many third party applications to extend your investment even further.
The Lotus software portfolio and other IBM offerings combine ten core technologies and strategies that you put to work in developing applications for your people. Visit IBM Lotus Application Development to learn more about Web 2.0, SOA, composite applications and more.
Application development and design products

IBM Lotus Domino Designer
Helps rapidly build and deploy security-rich, collaborative applications including composite application components in Lotus Domino environment.

IBM Lotus Mashups
Will provide a lightweight mashup environment. Currently planned to be available midyear 2008.

IBM Lotus Expeditor
Provides universal managed client software and toolkit to extend composite applications to various devices.

IBM Lotus Enterprise Integrator for Domino
Enables data exchange between Lotus Domino and many host and relational applications.

IBM Lotus Connector for SAP solutions
Enables custom integration between Lotus Domino applications and SAP enterprise resource planning software.

IBM Lotus Workflow
Works on top of IBM Lotus Domino to speed the creation and deployment of workflow-oriented applications.
Related products for application design and development
Enables user-assembled business mashups from available components, including widgets, gadgets or Web page fragments.
Open standards based electronic forms that provide an easy to use front end to accelerate process automation.
Provide a single, integrated, personalized point of access to Lotus Domino applications and information, other applications and content, and productivity tools that provide a logical entry point to a flexible service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Supercharges WebSphere Portal with tools and technology to rapidly create, customize, maintain, deploy portlets and Web applications.
IBM WebSphere Dashboard Framework
Delivers a powerful tool for rapidly building active, SOA dashboards for IBM WebSphere Portal. It augments WebSphere Portlet Factory withdashboard-specific features.
Integrate instant messaging, presence awareness and Web conferencing into the context of your business applications.
Embed team spaces in any Web-based application, Web site or portal.

