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Integration and Application Infrastructure |
Integrating Data and Content |
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Real-time and Team Collaboration Document and Content Mgmt Remote Access Learning lotusdomino.com - links for IBM lotus notes and domino Go to official IBM Lotus site About LotusLotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lotus was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs. Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System, but the company is more broadly known for its groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application released in January 1983.As the popularity of the personal computer grew, Lotus quickly came to dominate the office suite market. Lotus introduced other office products such as Ray Ozzie's Symphony and the Jazz office suite for the Apple Macintosh computer and acquired many software companies to gain products such as Freelance Graphics, Ami Pro, Approach, and Organizer. In the late 1980s, Lotus developed Lotus Magellan, a file management and indexing utility. In the early 1990s, several of the products were bundled together under the name Lotus SmartSuite. Although SmartSuite was initially more popular than Microsoft Office, Lotus lost its dominance in the desktop applications market. SmartSuite still ships by default with some Compaq and IBM laptops, although it has continued to lose market share since its launch. Lotus began its diversification from the desktop software business with its 1984 strategic founding investment in Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, the creator of its Lotus Notes groupware platform. As a result of this early speculative move, Lotus had gained significant experience in network-based communications years before other competitors in the PC world had even started thinking about the Internet. Lotus initially brought Notes to market in 1989, and later reinforced its market presence with the acquisition of cc:Mail in 1991. In 1994, Lotus acquired Iris Associates. Lotus's dominant groupware position soon faced stiff competition from Microsoft Exchange, but in 2004, twenty years after its groundbreaking agreement with Iris, Lotus Notes continued to lead the market according to some measures. Design Requirements for Collaborative Writing Tools for Distributed Work Over the InternetThis paper proposes requirements necessary for designing future collaborative writing tools to support distributed work teams on the Internet. Requirements are proposed from literature, and then compared to previous and existing CW tools such as Microsoft Word(TM). Because no tool adequately addresses the needs of distributed CW teams, a new CW tool called Collaboratus is proposed and reviewed. Go to article by PAUL BENJAMIN LOWRY Improving the Usability Evaluation Technique, Heuristic Evaluation, Through the Use of Collaborative SoftwareThis paper examines how to increase the productivity of the software usability evaluation technique called heuristic evaluation (HE) through the use of collaborative software. Building off of a brainstorming research, it is theorized that part of HE resembles brainstorming, in that it is a creative process that can benefit from anonymous, parallel production afforded by collaborative software. Approximately 230 participants were involved in a lab study to compare traditional HE to HE conducted in face-to-face and distributed settings using collaborative software. It is found that the addition of collaborative software significantly improves HE by eliminating unnecessary duplication work, increasing overall productivity, and by increasing group awareness and consensus earlier on in HE. It is also found that distributed groups do suffer some process losses due to lack of media richness. | |||||||