IBM Middleware

For further information on the products summarised below please visit the IBM website at www.ibm.com/software

Lotus

As one of the world’s leading solutions for business-grade messaging and collaboration, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino offers superior functionality.

	This state-of-the-art, award-winning platform delivers:
	An industry-leading e-mail solution.
	Instant messaging and presence awareness.
	Fully featured calendaring and scheduling.
	A user-friendly, single access point.

IBM Lotus Domino server provides enterprise-grade collaboration capabilities that can be deployed as a core e-mail and enterprise scheduling infrastructure (IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Server), as a custom application platform (IBM Lotus Domino Utility Server), or both (IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise Server). An integral part of the IBM Workplace family, Lotus Domino server and its client software options can help you improve the productivity of your people and enable users to share, manage and organise information more efficiently.

Tivoli

An integral part of the comprehensive IBM e-business infrastructure solution, Tivoli software helps traditional enterprises, emerging e-businesses and Internet businesses worldwide maximize their existing and future technology investments. Backed by world-class IBM services, support and research, Tivoli software provides a seamlessly integrated and flexible e--business infrastructure management solution that uses robust security to connect employees, business partners and customers.

WebSphere

WebSphere software from IBM provides integration and application infrastructure software allowing companies to achieve:

	Application and transaction infrastructures with which to build, deploy and run applications in a proven, secure and flexible environment.
	Application transformations providing leverage to legacy applications and information.
	Business integration by improving business responsiveness through the use of end-to-end integration across and beyond the enterprise.
	Commerce. Automate and integrate online marketing and sales processes across multiple channels.
	Mobile and speech middleware. Extend access to business processes, applications and information to anyone anywhere.
	Portals which deliver a point of personalised interaction with applications, content, processes and people.
	Product information management through a single, integrated source for use across the value chain.

DB2

DB2 Universal Database is the database management system that delivers a flexible and cost-effective database platform to build robust on demand business applications. DB2 UDB further leverages your resources with broad support for open standards and popular development platforms like J2EE and Microsoft .NET.

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