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Think Lotus, and think clunky old e-mail?

Wrong.

Think e-mail and think simple messaging, calendaring and scheduling?

Wrong again.

At Gemini, we see the Lotus brand as standing for much more and we see the idea of basic corporate messaging evolving to something much more comprehensive - what Mattew W. Cain of Gartner in a August 2009 report describes as “fourth-generation collaboration services” (see http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=1153913). For the past two years, Lotus has been very busy bringing a set of refreshed and innovative tools to the market - the product of in-depth research and development. And we believe that Lotus is the only company well on its way to offering the only enterprise-ready and enterprise-integrated set of products for messaging and advanced social collaboration, centered around information and processes.

IBM Lotus, the leader in collaborative technologies, is able to fulfill the Gartner vision via:

  • Lotus Notes 8.5: A modern, rich featured, ultra-extensible messaging and composite application platform supporting all major operating systems.  It's delivered as full client, web clients, efficient light-weight clients for the latest generations of mobile devices and now, with LotusLive ™ as cloud based software as a service (SasS).
  • The Lotus Sametime: A familly of on-premises SaaS delivered products for real-time communications, supporting instant messaging, advanced web conferencing, tools, services and APIs. Sametime brings context awareness across many of the other IBM and non-IBM tools
  • Lotus Quickr: A collaborative document management system, integrated into your desktop, web browsers, mail clients, IM clients, and mobile devices, and offered as services for your Domino, portal or ECM environments
  • Lotus Connections 2.5: An award-winning software that combines a complete social software experience with activity-centric collaboration tooling.  It allows enterprises to coordinate projects, tasks, share and contribute content.  With Connections you can leverage the power of social networks inside and outside of your organization.
  • Lotus Mashups: A product true to the spirit of the “read-write web” and empowering business to access and combine disparate sources of data into composite applications and Enterprise Mashups.  These can then easily be deployed as web pages, producing an immediate value return.
  • IBM Websphere Portal Server: The leader and most mature enterprise portal in the industry, which can form the foundation for today's and tomorrow's information workspaces and the entry point into any organization's Service Oriented Architecture.

So what is Lotus software today?  It is modern. It is Web 2.0 based. It is social software. It is on premises. It is Software as a Service.

Ask us to come and demonstrate to you where our Lotus enthusiasm stems from!



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  • Sametime – All Editions
  • Quickr – All Editions
  • Lotus Connections
  • Lotus Mashups
  • Lotus Forms
  • Webphere Portal Server
Michael Bisignani

Michael Bisignani , a Gemini Systems co-CTO , has worked and followed Lotus products for close to two decades. He routinely advises customers on concept of “Groupware 2.0”. Gemini's vision for collaborative software and has created the blueprints and implementation for “Client-SOA”, a new paradigm in application assembly and user-driven business process management.

Michael ,with his deep understanding and exposure to various areas of technology, works as a practicing Enterprise architect. He has helped customers in the financial markets and other industries and has been a trusted advisor to many clients during the course of short and long term engagements.

Some of Michael's specialties include: Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented and Service Based Architectures, IT Strategies and Assessments, Financial Markets and Regulatory Systems, Enterprise Messaging, Workflow Technologies, Enterprise Content Management, and High Performance computing. His non-IT Related interests include: Mediterranean Cuisine and “dead” classical languages.

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