Lotus Foundations Start from IBM

BANGALORE,INDIA: IBM Lotus Foundations Start is a complete technology and collaboration solution for businesses with 5-500 employees with limited or no in-house IT resources. It's complete with all the essential software needed to power a small business and also enables you to run a variety of business applications.

Lotus Foundations Start helps you establish a company network, use e-mail at the office, from remote locations or mobile devices, create and share documents, centrally manage files, backup data, and protect your business from unwanted disruptions.

All Lotus Foundations solutions includes e-mail, security, backup and recovery features, and is an ideal solution for small businesses with little or no IT support. It can be deployed in under 30 minutes and provides the essential collaboration software required to power a small business.

Autonomics

Reduces the time and effort required to get set up by automating installation and configuration and by discovering and mapping the network around it Provides security features and connectivity while reducing time effort and error by auto-configuring a firewall and VPN

Protects and stores electronic data with frequent, automated, highly reliable backups

Security

Complete Protection: Automatically stop threats from reaching your network

Reduced Maintenance: Updates are automatic, so there is no need for continual system maintenance

Stay Connected: Rapidly link offices, as well as mobile workers

Increase Productivity: Work more productively with fewer interruptions

Cost Savings: Conserve network resources

Office Productivity

IBM Lotus office productivity tools included in the price

Import, edit, and save work in a variety of file types, including Adobe® PDF

Access email, calendars, documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and applications quickly from a single interface

Use business applications, create documents, and search the Web without ever having to leave the Lotus Notes interface

Interoperability

Helps reduce cost of ownership by working with other software or existing infrastructure

Works with a variety of software packages, minimizing the potential change in user experience Email and calendars transparent to Microsoft Outlook users - users can continue to run their Microsoft Outlook client

Backup & Recovery

No fuss, no worries - even non-technical staff can manage backups

Frequent incremental backups are continuous and automated

High-level of system redundancy

Recover from any type of system failure into a fully functional state, in just a few minutes

 

Email & Collaboration

IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino: customized for the SMB - no complexity of installation, setup and configuration - no learning curve necessary

Source:www.ibm.com