Lotus Development Services

InCentric's Solutions consultants are highly-skilled and seasoned Domino professionals with extensive experience and certifications. They are Certified Lotus Professionals, several are Principal CLPs and many have experience with Notes/Domino, LotusScript, going back to Notes R3, and in recent years this has included extensive work with standards such as HTML, JavaScript, Java, JDBC, ODBC, and SQL. Our consultants average 8 years with Notes/Domino and ten years in information technology.

Custom Application Development An application can be as simple an online employee directory or as complex as a company-wide portal providing employees a single browser-based interface to all of the tools and information they need to perform their jobs. We specialize in workflow and collaborative applications, portals, extranets, and intranets - all tailored to increase productivity, enhance internal efficiency, and strengthen relationships with suppliers, vendors, and customers. Simply put, we develop applications that make your business better.

Custom Application Development components include:

Content Management Solution Development
Communication Tracking / Management
e-Commerce
Portals / Intranets / Client Extranets
Legacy Systems Integration
CRM / SFA / ERM / PRM (Relationship Management)
Wireless agents & applications

Lotus Domino is IBM's premier collaborative application server. The worldwide market leader, Domino is a highly scalable, reliable and secure platform not only for enterprise messaging, but also for workflow and business process applications. Applications can be accessed with client applications ranging from Lotus Notes, full-featured, rich collaboration client, to standard web browsers and devices such as PDAs and Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) -capable devices. For over 10 years, the proven capability of Domino has appealed to thousands of developers and Lotus business partners for building robust, collaborative applications.

Here are 10 good reasons to choose Lotus to deliver value, innovation and performance to collaborative applications.

1. Unmatched Collaboration Capabilities Lotus' continued innovation brings Web applications capabilities such as real time collaboration with instant messaging and application sharing, threaded discussions, document libraries, virtual meeting rooms, and ad hoc workflow management. For over 10 years, Lotus has been, and remains, unmatched in delivering a consistent and integrated collaboration platform, along with a cohesive vision, to improve people's ability to work together that evolves with technology, not for the sake of technology.

2. Proven Leadership Within the install base of over 78 million users, Domino has delivered on the promise of extending existing investments for collaborative applications. The number of applications that are in use on Domino platforms is nine times greater than those running on Exchange. This represents the tremendous success of Domino applications as capable and proven assets in organizations of all sizes. According to Gartner Group "IBM/Lotus has continued to offer a broader and richer set of collaborative capabilities".

3. Leading Rapid Application Development Environment The Domino programming environment gives developers of all skill levels a rapid application development environment optimized for building collaborative applications. Developers can choose from a number of programming languages, with the flexibility to use popular third-party Web authoring tools and various open interfaces, connectors and templates. Research has shown that Domino offers a less complex, less expensive development environment that can deliver more application functionality than the current Microsoft Exchange offering. Since Microsoft canceled Office Designer, Exchange developers will continue to be challenged to find a cost-effective way to build collaborative applications.

4. Most Flexible Client Choice Applications developed on Domino can extend to a wide variety of client environments including Lotus Notes, Web browsers, PDAs, and WAP phones. When compared with similar efforts on an Exchange application, research showed Domino applications to be the most successful in supporting both a native and Web client. For wireless applications, Domino Everyplace extends the ability to develop and implement collaborative applications to users anywhere, anytime and from any device. With the powerful and unified application development platform in Domino, developers can architect and extend applications as new client technologies emerge.

5. Best Off-Line Support Domino provides the most robust off-line support for collaborative applications, providing Web users secure, full-fidelity access to Domino applications even while disconnected from the Web. Through seamless data replication and synchronization, remote users can access data, make decisions and work productively. In addition, network cost savings can be realized in areas with low quality, slow or expensive bandwidth availability. Microsoft had planned to offer their first version of off-line application capability through the Local Web Store, however recently announced that it would be removed from the product, leaving mobile users and network administrators with no improvements in performance or functionality.

6. Fast, Accurate and Efficient Deployment The patented Domino replication model provides a single and efficient method for both business data and application design objects to stay synchronized between servers and clients. Applications can be automatically deployed to Domino servers on any platform throughout the organization, without requiring administrator or developer intervention. In addition, all replication is performed at the field level to minimize impact on network bandwidth so only the changes made to a form or web page are replicated - not the entire page or document. For global deployment, Domino's multilingual server and translation environment automatically detect and present the appropriate language.

7. Superior Reliability Domino applications are backed by a world-class foundation for reliability, security and scalability. Domino includes a true "hot site" clustering model that can be used across network links for both fail-over and load balancing. Unlike Exchange 2000, Domino supports six-way active/active clustering, and does not require "advanced" or "enterprise" versions of the underlying operating system, resulting in superior application reliability.

8. Top Notch Security Security is a top priority for Domino applications, and robust authentication, trust and encryption capabilities down to the author level ensure complete protection of data. Reliance on the Windows 2000 Active Directory structure makes it difficult to build roles-based security in Exchange applications, which is a fundamental security requirement for collaboration among a group of users. In addition, Domino provides integration with existing security systems through single sign-on with Microsoft workstations and with Microsoft IIS and IBM WebSphere.

9. Out of the Box Integration with Mission Critical Data Applications developed on Domino can connect, authenticate, translate and transfer data with a wide range of relational, transaction and ERP data sources using "point and click" tools. Developers can access the data they need in a direct and intuitive manner and have the time to focus on business rules and presentation for robust e-commerce, collaborative and workflow enabled applications. Exchange offers little enterprise data integration and no effective tools to manage data relationships.

10. Complete Compatibility Lotus is committed to continually strengthening integration with a range of widely deployed e-business technologies. Domino runs on all major platform operating systems, so existing investment is leveraged and compliance with any corporate standard can be achieved. Once deployed, Domino applications can seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Office documents for secure storage, routing, and approval within Domino collaborative applications. For web applications, Domino can integrate with existing Java server infrastructure, so the customer can enable their preferred HTTP stack, directory and servlet engine.

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