Supercharge Effectiveness in Company? "Yeah, It can do that too"
Social technology can support staff work performances and increase the effectiveness and productivity in the work environment. This blog will explain the advantages and benefits obtained by companies that enhance the performance and effectiveness of staff in work place by using one of the social technology. It called "Lotus Notes".
What is Lotus Notes?
In 1989, IBM Notes was build and created by Lotus Development Corp. "IBM Notes (formerly Lotus Notes) and IBM Domino (formerly Lotus Domino) are the client and server, respectively, of a collaborative client-server software platform from IBM." (Wikipedia)
IBM Lotus Notes is an application software platform as a social technology tool. Lotus Notes is used for productivity, database management, email and collaboration. Lotus Notes have 1,000 new features and support web services Lotus. Lotus Notes can be used as a stand-alone application or as the client software for Lotus Domino networked applications on Windows, Linux and AIX platforms. Lotus Notes also provides standard Web browsing and secured access to Web-enabled applications. In addition, Lotus Notes allow a company for billing process. The client be able to access this tools.
Effectiveness and Productivity
1. Synchronized Distributed Databases
Single point of access to everything staff or company need for assisting everything work has done properly and right time, including calendars, email, business application, etc.
Lotus Notes provides industrial-strength replication capability, which synchronizes databases distributed in multiple locations and to mobile users. For The Notes Name & Address Book provides a central directory for all resources and a great number of features have been built using macro language and LotusScript, a Visual Basic-like programming language.
According this statement, it can "getting communities to work for community at company" (Participation) and "community validates and organizes Content" (Transparency) to encourage productivity in the company.
Example: Syncing contacts between Salesforce and IBM Notes.
2. Collective Effort
Give the authority for staff or communities to work with people right at the point of context of work with social tools weaved into the work experience, allowing them to pivot to the tool they need, such as presence awareness, instant messaging, share their ideas about their tasks and jobs and business cards.
Example: (a) Receiving a task in CoWorkingPlace
Example: (b) Tracking emails to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) contacts and accounts
4. The Father of Groupware
"Lotus Notes is often considered the father of groupware, because it was the first to popularize a development environment around groupware functions". Based on this, all integrated by Lotus Notes and facilitate leaders/managers/supervisors to check all the work in the company. It is more streamlined and effective.
5. Lotus Notes can be built for both the Notes client and for Web browsers.
The Lotus Notes client was decoupled from the Notes server, which was renamed Domino in 1996. Domino is Internet compliant. Web browser can be access Domino. The Lotus Notes client also contains a browser, which can download Web pages and maintain them as Notes documents. "Part of the flexibility of Lecture Notes is that you can build both Notes client applications and applications that are accessed through a Web browser. Domino has a built-in HTTP server that renders content based on normal HTTP requests. Domino takes the application's design and data and renders it into HTML "on the fly" for the browser."
Moreover, Lotus Notes offers advanced replication technology to enable communities to work with email and applications even when disconnected from the network.
The Company Who Use Lotus Notes
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"Lets you tailor your work environment with widgets that bring social communities that are important to your job, both within the enterprise and across the Internet, right into your peripheral view."
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REFERENCES
Bradley, A. (2009). The six core principles of social-media-based collaboration. Gartner, Inc.
Harvey, F. (2002). IBM updates lotus notes. FT.Com, , 1. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/228686893?accountid=13380
http://www.cio.com/article/2431837/enterprise-software/7-things-it-managers-should-know-about-lotus-notes.html
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