What Is Lotus Notes?

The details of exactly what is Lotus Notes is a question many ask yet few find it easy to answer. The reason for this is that Lotus Notes represents different capabilities to different individuals. Because its feature set is vast, this allows the product to deliver a wide range of results to organizations.

Let's start with a description of Lotus Notes & Domino Software:

Lotus Notes is Client Software. It is a user desktop software application which enables electronic collaboration & high productivity for employees.
Lotus Domino is Server Software. It provides business messaging, group scheduling, & collaboration capabilities to the Lotus Notes users, enabling them to connect & communicate together, and accomplish team collaboration.

Lotus Notes Capabilities & High-Productivity Features:

Email - more control to manage the daily influx of messages by auto-separating them into actionable items; this includes a follow-up function, mail rules, and visual indicators; anti-spam control; converting a message into a to-do item or calendar appointment for follow-up; and increased user control.
Personal Address Book/Contacts Management - better manage established clients, daily contacts, & new customers with intuitive contact management features. Provides ability to manage contacts by category, groups, business, as well as holidays/birthdays/anniversaries.
Calendaring - better manage one's business day with full features for accomplishing daily/monthly/yearly workload; appointments, meetings, daily timelines, all-day event, reminders, & anniversary items.
Schedule Planning - Group scheduling, including free- and busy-time lookups to easily schedule meetings with colleagues.
To-Do List, Task Management & Delegation
Many additional features available in the areas of team collaboration such as integrated instant messaging, presence awareness, web conferencing, local document library, and collaborative applications such as shared discussion databases and team workspaces for sharing project information & work-in-process data.

Client/Server Software Architecture

Lotus Notes is the client software which gets installed on a user's computer
Lotus Domino is the server software which gets installed on a server computer.

The Lotus Notes client is what's known as an "Integrated Collaborative Environment". This means that many different capabilities are provided to the end user all within one simple software program interface. This furnishes the user with ease-of-use, and all capabilities accessible from one common workspace (i.e. no waiting for a variety of other different programs to start up on the desktop or potential application conflicts).

Lotus Notes client software is available in the following choices:

Feature-rich Desktop Client

Lotus Notes for Messaging
Lotus Notes for Collaboration
Domino Messaging Express
Domino Collaboration Express

Access for Web Browser Users

Domino Web Access for Messaging
Domino Web Access for Collaboration
Domino Web Mail

Access for Microsoft Outlook Users

Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook

Click here to see full description and comparison of each of these Lotus Notes email client choices.

Lotus Domino server software is available in the following choices:

Lotus Domino Messaging Server (Messaging, Scheduling, Collaboration)
Lotus Domino Enterprise Server (Messaging, Scheduling, Collaboration, Plus Provides Access to Custom Applications)
Lotus Domino Utility Server (application-only solution, no messaging or group scheduling)
Lotus Domino Messaging Express Server (for under-1,000 employees)
Lotus Domino Collaboration Express Server (for under-1,000 employees)
Lotus Domino Utility Express Server (application-only solution, no messaging or group scheduling)

Click here to see full description and comparison of each of these Lotus Domino server choices.

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