Lotus Notes / Domino offers a complete platform for business application development.

Everything you need ships in one box:

Domino is the premier platform for collaborative web applications, providing integrated application services, such as security, workflow, content management, and built-in connection services, providing live access to: leading relational databases, transaction systems, and ERP applications.

Domino runs on all popular platforms, including Windows NT, OS/2, UNIX, AS/400, Linux and S/390, and supports your choice of clients: the Lotus Notes R5 client, your favorite web browser, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora and handheld devices like PDAs, cellular phones, and pagers. Domino is standards-based, offering the industry's most comprehensive support for Internet messaging standards, with Internet addressing, SMTP routing and MIME content support all native. Plus full support for E/SMTP, S/MIME, SSL, POP3, IMAP4, LDAP, HTTP, HTML, and SNMP.

Lotus also offers an unbeatable array of integrated products to extend and add value to your Domino infrastructure. Adteco specializes in solutions that integrate Lotus Notes/Domino with other systems like SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle and DB2. Using workflow, Adteco can make them more distributed with business systems approval processes like purchasing and employee information.

A Domino server is capable of serving as:

A Domino Mail Server providing E-mail, web browser mail access, Calendaring and Scheduling, bulletin boards, newsgroups, and mobile support A Domino Application Server hosting Collaborative Web applications with connectivity to back-end systems Or a combination of both For more advanced installations, Clustering and Partitioning Services, including dynamic load balancing and failover for applications, is also available

As an application development tool:

Lotus Notes / Domino is the leader in the collaborative application / workflow marketplace. It offers reliabilty in the way of server clustering and scalability by way of replication. It also offers a choice of operating system platforms and client access software. With its advanced search cabilities, integrated feature set, and stable architecture,

Lotus Notes / Domino offers an integrated approach to application development for your infrastructure. Lotus Notes / Domino provides a fully integrated development paradigm out of the box. The following components provide a platform, from which developers can quickly create collaborative business web applications.

Security

Domino's security model is built in. Authentication against the Domino Directory can also be achieved through the web, allowing users to access their e-mail and business applications with the same user id and password.

E-mail Notification / Workflow:
Every Domino server is capable of sending and receiving e-mail. This environment allows applications to leverage e-mail notification and in fact document forwarding and submission. Electronic forms can be filled out on-line and routed to the appropriate individual's mail boxes for them to take action

Interoperability

Lotus Notes Domino provides several options for interfacing with the rest of your infrastructure. The SMTP mail protocol is standard across the Internet and is native to the Domino server. This allows the Domino server to send to and receive e-mail from other servers in your environment.

Domino servers support connections to LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol) directories, allowing users to find information about people, such as phone numbers and e-mail addresses, outside their organizations. Client workstation can also access data stored in Lotus Notes databases directly from Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel, and Acess via COM (Component Object Model.)

The Domino Network File Store (DNFS,) included in version 5.0.5 of the Domino server, allows users to access a Domino file server like any other file server through Windows Explorer or any Windows application Open/Save dialog box. This provides users with a secure, replicatable, indexed, and collaborative repository for their documents.

Full Text Searching

Databases stored in Lotus Notes / Domino format support full text indexing of not only content stored in text format, like e-mail messages, but also binary files such as Microsoft Word attachments. There are several full text index options, which increase the accuracy of user searches.

Java

Lotus Domino servers ship with an integrated Java VM (virtual machine.) This allows the Domino server to run Java agents (programs) on the server with no special configuration

CORBA

IIOP can be enabled on the Domino server to allow it to serve Java application code to clients that request it.