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Why Lotus?

Today's knowledge workers must be agile and creative in the face of rapidly evolving market opportunities. Business acumen can be accelerated with the ability to quickly assemble the right information, documents, and expertise.

If your curriculum covers messaging and collaboration and would benefit from social software, such as: instant messaging and Web conferencing, e-forms, team collaboration, and content management...then consider using IBM Lotus software in your classroom and labs.

Many choose IBM Lotus software for its multi-platform application development features that make it easy to create people-driven applications like customer relationship management, help desk or supply chain management. IBM Lotus applications can be integrated with WebSphere Portal solutions and many applications from other sources.


What Lotus offers

Application design and development
Increase user productivity and business flexibility with custom solutions for Lotus software.

Dashboards and business solutions
Deploy role-based work environments and speed time-to-value with dashboards, scorecards and composite applications.

E-mail, calendaring and collaborative applications
Provide more than just messaging with Lotus Notes and Domino built-in collaboration tools and application platform.

Instant messaging and Web conferencing
Collaborate real-time with integrated Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) software and solutions.

Mobile and wireless capabilities
Extend enterprise business processes, applications and information to mobile and wireless devices and clients.

Social software
Gather and exchange information through professional networks and build communities of experts to help execute tasks faster.

Team collaboration, content management and e-forms
Create, organize, share, and manage business content to provide the right information to the right people -- fast.



Where do I begin?

Follow the path through these pages to get trained and start educating your students.

Join: Become an Academic Initiative member and get access to product downloads and valuable courseware at no charge.

Learn: Explore all of the articles, tutorials, books, podcasts, demos and training opportunities that will help you enhance your skills.

Teach: Get our products, courseware, and other resources so you can teach your curriculum with IBM Lotus software.

Connect: Stay connected to the program and others who are teaching and doing research with IBM Lotus products.


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Real world success

Using Lotus products for a Collaboration Jam

Dr. Edward Romar at UMass