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IBM Lotus QuickPlace is a business-ready, self-service work space expressly designed for team collaboration. With Lotus QuickPlace, users can instantly create secure work spaces, providing them with a place to communicate, coordinate and collaborate on any project or on-the-spot initiative. Key Lotus QuickPlace key capabilities include:
- Coordination. People, tasks, plans, and resources.
- Collaboration. Ideas and discussion, issues, shared documents, files, and general due diligence.
- Communication. Actions and decisions, key findings and lessons, and knowledge capture.
Organizations of all sizes can take advantage Lotus QuickPlace right out-of-the-box or can easily customize it to meet their unique business requirements.
Benefits
- Provide anytime, anywhere access to collective knowledge, information-sharing, tasks and team calendar events -- whether on-line or disconnected, eliminating information silos.
- Establish seamless, secure, working communities with a sense of accountability, whether team members are centralized or geographically dispersed.
- Increase team productivity and efficiency by virtualizing asynchronous collaboration processes, and optionally integrating them with real-time.
- Increase responsiveness amongst colleagues, customers, business partners and suppliers by facilitating instant formation of working teams -- whether team members reside within or beyond the organization.
- Facilitate faster, collective decision-making by centralizing timely and accurate information, and enabling all team members equal opportunity to review and react to the decision at hand.
A market-leading and award-winning tool, Lotus QuickPlace puts the power of virtual collaboration in the hands of users. In fact, over two million team members worldwide use Lotus QuickPlace every day to effectively communicate, coordinate and work.
Features and Functions
"My Places." Provides a central, personalized listing of all team work spaces to which the “Member” belongs, simplifying viewing, finding and moving from one “Place” to another.
Advanced Search. Search across all the team work spaces within an enterprise or scope the search to a single team work space and “Rooms” and “Folders” within.
IBM Lotus Sametime 7 Integration. Increase productivity by adding presence awareness, instant messaging and Web conferencing to any "Place" -- see "Member" availability, initiate and instant message, or schedule or launch a Web conference.
Team Calendar. Keep track of shared calendar events created in the team work space using IBM Lotus Notes 7 or Microsoft Outlook.
Personalize and Customize. Easily adapt a team work space or fully customize to address a vertical or horizontal business process.
Collaborate in Context. Embed team collaboration in any Web-based application, Web site or portal.
Key benefits to Lotus QuickPlace 7:
New folder-based navigation model provides a familiar user interface
- Enhanced offline capabilities
- Deployment enhancements for locked-down desktops
- Enhanced options for customization and personalization
- Additional browser support for Apple Macintosh and Mozilla Firefox
- New QuickPlace themes leverage latest dynamic HTML specifications
- Enhanced diagnostics and status information
- Deployment of Lotus Sametime and Lotus QuickPlace on the same server
Top benefits of upgrading to Lotus QuickPlace 7:
- Reduced end user training through “room and folder” user interface
- More flexibility in selecting the supported operating system and browser best suited for user and organization’s needs
- Lower cost of ongoing administration and management
- Lower cost of deployment
- Enhanced protection of confidential information
- Facillitate faster and better team decision making
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Lotus QuickPlace is a market leader. Customers include:
- 60 percent of the Fortune Global 100
- 4 out of the top 5 aerospace and defense companies
- 7 out of the top 9 commercial and saving banks
- 7 out of the top 9 chemical companies
- 70 percent of the world's biggest entertainment companies
- 5 out of the top 7 automobile manufacturers
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