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Lotus Connections
IBM Lotus Connections social software for business helps people discover the expertise they need, by connecting people to dynamic networks of coworkers, customers and business partners. These networks become vibrant professional and customer-focused communities where people can collaborate with the right people to deliver results, quickly.

Lotus Quickr

IBM Lotus Quickr team software helps you access the people, information and project materials you need to get the job done.

You can gain control of your team's content and always access the latest version. Easily collaborate using team spaces that work inside or outside your firewall. Access and manage content from the desktop applications you use every day and collaborate across the time zones or go offline to work.

Lotus Sametime Advanced
IBM Lotus Sametime software is an award-winning platform for real-time collaboration. For years, organisations of all types have taken advantage of the Lotus Sametime platform's powerful, security-enhanced features, such as integrated presence awareness, instant messaging (IM), Web conferencing, voice and video, to help people quickly find, reach and collaborate with each other.

In addition, IBM Lotus Sametime software integrates out-of-the-box with Microsoft applications, giving you direct access to a comprehensive set of collaboration capabilities without having to leave the Microsoft Office or SharePoint environment.

What's Coming in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5
IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 software will introduce new features that can help improve productivity and effectiveness across many areas of your organisation. (Note: The following represents current IBM plans and directions, which are subject to change without notice.)

Deliver IT performance
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 software will help IT managers do their jobs effectively and efficiently by easily managing server security, availability, performance, Lotus Notes client rollouts and Lotus Notes client security while helping to reduce the total cost of ownership within an organisation. Improvements and savings can be accomplished through the use of new features and advanced tools for everyday use and common administrator tasks.

Drive business value
Applications built with Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 software can help business increase the effectiveness and productivity of its employees, by leveraging the latest capabilities in Web and rich client development technologies. Extend the reach of you business applications by providing ubiquitous Web browser access via a Web 2.0 experience using Lotus Domino 8.5.

Improve user efficiency and experience
The IBM vision of the desktop of the future is a simplified, security-rich, and real-time work environment designed to foster an increase in knowledge sharing, business insight and productivity. It nurtures communication and real-time connection, while extending simplified views of business applications to a number of supported devices. It also enables the CIO to drive desktop transformation and tap into the collaborative power of the entire value chain.

IBM Lotus Notes

IBM Lotus Domino

IBM Lotus Notes 8

Lotus Notes software provides a rich desktop experience that helps users locate, transform, and share content across geographically disbursed teams in real-time. It brings business data, the Internet, and people directly to the user, all integrated together through an intelligent email environment that helps simplify and streamline work by organising and prioritising tasks, prompting for actions to take, and connecting directly to information sources.

Choose Lotus Notes features that are right for your business from the following offerings:

Lotus Notes for Messaging - Client desktop software for email, calendar, scheduling, discussion databases, integrated instant messaging and more

Lotus Notes for Collaboration - Client desktop software for messaging plus additional collaboration tools and access to custom or vendor applications.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is a suite of products that delivers a broad range of storage management capabilities. These capabilities include backup, archive, recovery, space management, database and application protection, enterprise resource planning (ERP), bare machine recovery and disaster recovery planning. Tivoli Storage Manager also includes capabilities that can help protect the customer's mission-critical data that require 24 x 7 availability, as well as options for high-efficiency backup of key business applications, with virtually no backup-related performance impact

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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express uses proven Tivoli Storage Manager technology to back up and recover vital data. It is easily installed, competitively priced, and made to deliver reliable, robust backup and recovery services that integrate as you grow.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition expands on Tivoli Storage Manager backup, restore and archive abilities. It helps expedite disaster recovery by creating a detailed plan and automated scripts, and disaster recovery reporting functionality can track where offsite copies of data are stored.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services helps protect mission-critical data that requires 24x7 availability. It offers ready-to-use, product-based solutions designed to implement high-efficiency backup and restore processes and helps eliminate backup-related performance issues.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning protects your vital SAP system data. Now you can improve the availability of your SAP database servers and reduce your administration workload with automated data protection designed for mySAP/SAP R3 environments.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail protects data on e-mail servers running Lotus, Domino, or Microsoft Exchange. This software module for Tivoli Storage Manager automates data protection, enables 'hot' backups without shutting down the server and improves data restore performance.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Microsoft SharePoint is a policy-based backup and recovery solution. Quickly and confidently restore your Microsoft SharePoint business data and content after almost any kind of business interruption.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management moves inactive data to reclaim online disk space for important active data. It frees administrators and users from manual file system pruning tasks, and defers the need to purchase additional disk storage.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks works with servers and client computers to make data transfers over SAN. Allows SAN-connected Storage Manager servers and Storage Manager client computers to make maximum use of their direct network connection to storage.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup and Recovery delivers a flexible backup method for your AIX systems. It offers a comprehensive system backup, restore, and reinstallation tool and can be executed from either the AIX command line or by using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) menu interface.

IBM WebSphere Application Server

IBM WebSphere Application Server, V6.1 is the foundation of the IBM WebSphere software platform, and a key building block for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). As the premier Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Web services application platform, WebSphere Application Server V6.1 delivers a high performance transaction engine that can help you build, run, integrate and manage dynamic, On Demand Business applications.

As the core configuration of the WebSphere Application Server family, WebSphere Application Server is optimised to ease administration in a scalable, single-server deployment environment. This configuration is recommended for organisations that need to build and deploy stand-alone, departmental applications and Web services, but don't require failure bypass or workload-distribution options. WebSphere Application Server supports an unparalleled range of platforms and can be deployed on servers of any size. New and enhanced features deliver the flexible, open, resilient application infrastructure you need for an SOA.

IBM offers two licence acquisition and Software Subscription and Support offerings - Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Passport Advantage, described below, is designed for larger enterprises. Passport Advantage Express is designed to meet the needs of medium-sized businesses.

IBM Passport Advantage

IBM's comprehensive software licensing and Software Subscription and Support (product upgrades and technical support) offering. It is designed for larger enterprises that may have multiple sites. Passport Advantage gives you more opportunities to obtain better pricing. Passport Advantage offers better pricing for your volume purchases over time and is based on your Relationship Suggested Volume Price (RSVP) level.

Highlights

• New enrolments require a significant initial purchase.
  
  
• You receive your RSVP level based on your initial acquisition of licences and Software Subscription and Support. We've simplified the way we calculate RSVP levels based on your requirements and suggestions.
  
  
• Each acquisition is based on your RSVP or size of the transaction - whichever results in the lower price for you.
  
  
• Your RSVP is recalculated after every transaction.
  
  
• Additional locations or sites anywhere in the world can enrol under the same agreement so your business can leverage its combined acquisition power.
  
  
• You get Software Subscription and Support with each Passport Advantage licence you purchase - and prorated renewals to your organisation's established anniversary date.

Passport Advantage benefits include:

• Software Subscription and Support with each licence.
  
  
• Selected Support for certain Open Source and other non-warranted code.
  
  
• Comprehensive and flexible upgrade coverage.
  
  
• Protection for your technology investments.
  
  
• Secure access to Passport Advantage Online, a Web tool that helps you manage your installed base of IBM software.
  
  
• Simplified and improved software asset management.
  
  
• Reduced acquisition and administration costs.
  
  
• Streamlined budgeting for software upgrade and migration costs.
  
  
• Immediate support coverage on newly acquired products during installation phase and for life cycle of product.
  
  
• Flexible, easy-to-access, responsive, cross-platform customer support from IBM, worldwide.
  
  
• Access to IBM software technical support for all of a customer's designated IT staff.
  
  
• Simplified acquisition and renewal of cross-platform customer support.

Software Subscription and Support

Passport Advantage includes a Software Subscription and Support feature that complements your IBM software purchases. It includes both product upgrades and technical support, and fosters successful software deployments. With product upgrades, you get complete upgrade and cross-platform migration coverage for most commercially available IBM distributed software - Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Information Management, and Rational Software. You can upgrade to new releases and new versions as the needs of your business dictate. Technical Support helps keep your users up and running wherever they're working in the world. This is our way of making sure you're covered with the technical support you need. This is your way of getting an increased return on your IBM investment of a total software solution

IBM Passport Advantage Express

Designed for single-site, smaller enterprise businesses. It combines the full Passport Advantage product list with the simplicity of transaction-based acquisition. Passport Advantage Express does not require a relationship agreement - each transaction is subject to the terms and conditions effective at the time. There are no points and no aggregating - just a single price level. And with each new licence acquisition, you get renewable Software Subscription and Support.

That's all there is to it - simple, straightforward, easy.

Benefits

• Includes Software Subscription and Support with each licence.
  
  
• Provides Selected Support for certain Open Source and other non-warranted code.
  
  
• Provides comprehensive and flexible upgrade coverage.
  
  
• Protects technology investments.
  
  
• Simplifies and improves software asset management.
  
  
• Reduces acquisition and administration costs.
  
  
• Streamlines budgeting for software upgrade and migration costs.
  
  
• Provides immediate support coverage on newly acquired products during installation phase and for life cycle of product.
  
  
• Incorporates flexible, easy-to-access, responsive, cross-platform customer support from IBM, worldwide.
  
  
• Provides access to IBM software technical support for all of a customer's designated IT staff.
  
  
• Simplifies acquisition and renewal of cross-platform customer support.

Software Subscription and Support

Passport Advantage Express includes a Software Subscription and Support feature that complements your IBM software purchases. It includes both product upgrades and technical support and fosters successful software deployments. With product upgrades, you get complete upgrade and cross-platform migration coverage for most commercially available IBM distributed software - Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Information Management and Rational Software. You can upgrade to new releases and new versions as the needs of your business dictate. Technical Support helps keep your users up and running wherever they are working in the world. This is our way of making sure you are covered with the technical support you need. This is your way of getting an increased return on your IBM investment of a total software solution. And, Software Subscription and Support Renewals take place on a per-transaction basis, spreading the cost throughout your budget year.

Software Subscription and Support ensures that customers always have the most up-to-date eligible versions of IBM distributed software - Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Information Management, and Rational Software - and have software technical support to ensure their success in using the software.