By clicking sign up, you agree to receive emails from Techopedia and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Lotus Notes is a brand of groupware that is now owned by IBM.
Lotus Notes is used with a variety of local and collaborative server applications, including email, calendars, personal information managers PIM and the Web. Developed in the s, early versions of Lotus Notes were threaded discussions used to facilitate contact database management. Recent versions have RSS aggregators, help desk systems, wikis, customer relationship management CRM tools and blogging.
The Domino Designer Client may be used for custom application development. By: Justin Stoltzfus Contributor, Reviewer. By: Satish Balakrishnan. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day. When a user connects to the server replica of their mail database using the Notes client, it's the Domino server that is serving up the content from the user's mail database. The Domino server is also responsible for controlling access and security to mail files and application databases.
The Domino server has a robust security model that can control access in Notes documents down to the field level. This includes both user access based on the user's Notes ID, as well as database and network traffic encryption. Notes and Domino run on a number of operating systems: from an Intel Pentium 2 desktop machine to the "big iron" of IBM mainframes. This attention to multi-platform support means that IT departments can use existing servers and data center architecture to consolidate hardware and keep a tight rein on costs.
One of the most impressive features of Notes is its level of backwards compatibility between versions. It's possible to take a Notes application built in version 1 back in , and run it in the current Notes 8 release without any need to convert or rewrite the application.
We're not talking about showcase "proof point" applications, but real-world legacy applications which are still giving good value to the organization and do not need any feature enhancements.
Few software applications can boast about compatibility across versions like Notes can. This means your application development investment continues to return value long into the future. Often, a Domino server migration consists of running the install utility for the latest version. In as little as 15 minutes, the server is upgraded. All the applications built in prior versions of Notes still continue to run with no conversions necessary. Today's knowledge workers don't come to the office at am and leave at pm.
They are " always on ," and they need to access their data whether or not a network connection is available. The Notes client accommodates this requirement by replicating data between server and local versions of your mail files and applications.
It's among Notes oldest and most cherished features—for good reason. When a network connection exists, Notes synchronizes data between the server and client. The replication occurs at the field level, so two people can update different fields in the same document such as an invoice or travel request ; the server merges the updates so that the document shows both sets of changes.
Frankly, this is slick. Nobody else has ever achieved this level of WayCool synchronization sophistication, particularly because it's so trouble free that the feature is usually invisible.
Notes e-mail users replicate their mail files to local versions on their laptops, so they can be productive offline. When they once again connect to the network, all the changes are replicated with the server and messages are sent to the appropriate people. That applies to Notes databases and applications, not just e-mail. Part of the flexibility of Notes is that you can build both Notes client applications and applications that are accessed through a Web browser.
Domino takes the application's design and data and renders it into HTML "on the fly" for the browser. That's one quick way to migrate an in-house legacy application to an intranet or extranet. CSPs can secure their profitability in by utilising the power of Wi-Fi 6 for smart homes.
The tools provided by IBM Notes and Domino look to enhance and simplify workplace collaboration, although IBM Notes does provide applications that can also be used to enforce security, access and store information, and allow data replication. Privacy Policy. Ellie Burns. Hot topics The slow and silent rise of dark kitchens.
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