What is Lotus Notes?
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Lotus Notes is often called groupware, which enables a group of people to integrate their knowledge, workflow and application systems to achieve better business results. Groupware is a software that integrates communication processing, document storage and rich application development environment, and supports the sharing of various data between different computing platforms and various networks including the Internet. Lotus Notes is a document database management system: its most basic element is an independent document. Because Notes documents can contain structured and unstructured content, Notes can store and manage all types of data that relational database systems or other database systems cannot. In addition, using the document model, Notes provides users with many useful functions, such as the ability to handle Richtext and multimedia objects, full-text search function, version control, document linking and so on. The latest version of Notes extends these functions and can handle all kinds of information stored on the Internet. One of the most basic features of replication group platform is the ability to support team members to enjoy information across time and space boundaries. Working group members are often distributed in different positions, sometimes even across provinces, cities and countries. In order to support local members to access data conveniently and economically, each workplace usually needs to configure a local server. Notes has excellent replication technologies, including bidirectional replication, efficient replication, mobile replication, field-level selective replication and back-end replication. Many enterprises in the secure world have started to build their own application systems, including all departments of the enterprise, even suppliers and customers. Although individuals, departments and the whole enterprise are aware of the valuable value and exclusiveness of information, the competitive environment in today's shopping malls forces enterprises to break the original boundaries within and between enterprises and enjoy information anytime and anywhere. Only in this way can we shorten the time to deal with problems and breed more innovations. Of course, in groupware system, the information enjoyed by * * * still needs to be protected to prevent it from being deliberately destroyed. Therefore, groupware platform not only needs firm measures to protect key business data, but also needs flexible security measures to ensure that legitimate users can access and distribute necessary information. Lotus Notes uses keys and other means to meet the above two requirements, and provides four levels of security measures: authentication, access control, field-level encryption and electronic signature. Communication processing is a key component of workflow application system and a platform for working group schedule planning and scheduling. Notes communication processing can not only be used for personal communication, but also can be used to support collaborative work among team members. Notes provides a very simple and easy-to-learn e-mail system for beginners. At the same time, Notes also enables skilled users to quickly call mail management tools, which they can use to process and organize a large number of mails. Notes mail messages can contain links to any document in the Notes database, including discussions, customer profiles, web pages and news feeds. Most workflow systems need to decide whether to notify someone or update the database according to the specific state of the workflow or the specific values of the database fields. The Notes workflow application is designed to automatically send an email containing a link to a document that needs to be reviewed or processed. Workflow applications can also monitor workflows and send backup emails to restart the process after a pause. Notes mail transfer can be used with workgroup scheduling and scheduling products developed by third-party manufacturers. Lotus Organizer provides users with a very perfect working group schedule by using the directory service and mail transmission function of Notes. (Downturn 157 Version) Application Development Lotus Notes contains an integrated development environment, which provides rich development tools for users at different levels. Even users who have no programming experience can quickly establish and implement Notes applications, and professional developers can use the built-in programming tools of Notes to create powerful business processing applications. Professional developers can use a complete set of Notes development tools to create strategic systems. Its main tools include: the basic design elements of database-tables, fields, views, agents and file classes; A complete set of built-in programming tools-Lotusscript, Notes formula language, Navigator-perfect database integration functions-Lotusscript data object (LS:DO), NotesPump and many business partner DBMS products; Use the function of Notes directly through Basic language-Lotus Notes Hittest for Visual Basic; Many popular tool extensions developed by third-party vendors. Finally, users who want to access all the functions of Notes development platform can also access Notes client and server at the same time in C or C++ development environment. Both application programming interfaces enable developers to combine Notes with any system that provides C or C++. Internet Only a few years ago, people could not imagine that the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) could play a leading role in the contacts and business opportunities within and between enterprises. Through the development of widely available Internet and Web protocols, enterprises can make full use of this environment in an unprecedented way, and build applications based on Client/Server structure that were previously impossible to build. This application is suitable for internal and external enterprises, and can also exchange information among customers, business partners, investors and suppliers. Like the Web, LotusNotes is based on the concepts of complex texts, document-oriented databases, tables containing fields and document links. Therefore, Notes is an ideal Web application development platform. Because Notes is completely open to Internet and Web (World Wide Web) standards, Lotus extends the use of Notes servers, which can support Web (World Wide Web) browsers as alternative clients. Because it fully supports local Internet and Web standards, Lotus also adds value to Notes clients, including Web information management for end users and workgroups. Just as the Notes client can use the Notes server as the access center of all information resources, the Notes client can also access and manage the information on it through the Web (World Wide Web) server. That is to say, Notes client can apply its complete set of functions to internal and external information published in HTML format on HTTP server, including: connectionless use, client/server communication processing, complex format text editing, security management, workflow application, discussion database and document library. Multi-platform support Lotus Notes can demonstrate its powerful functions in today's multi-machine collaboration system environment because of its multi-platform support. No matter what platform, all Notes clients can access all servers, exchange information, send and receive emails, and participate in various services within the scope of Notes services. With built-in support for Notes for Internet and Web protocols, standard Web browsers can access Notes documents, views and applications. Moreover, Notes supports almost all mainstream clients, servers and network operating systems in the industry. Mobile computing notes allow users to access information on the road, that is, to "pull" information from the server to their mobile client computers. In order to obtain this information, Notes mobile users can communicate with Notes server through telephone lines. Notes replication technology enables mobile users to extract information on the road, speed up the communication of working groups, provide real-time information for customers and business partners, ensure that they can get all the information needed to sign contracts or fill in purchase orders at any time, and send emails from anywhere. On the contrary, the occurrence time of important emails and events is often inconsistent with the time when mobile workers connect the client to the server. If people who work in mobile offices can't get timely and urgent events conveniently and quickly, they will still find it inconvenient. In other words, users need the server to provide them with relevant information automatically. Notes paging processing service can meet this demand, and it can actively report important emails or events to mobile users.
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