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-------------------. Groupware is a software integrating communication processing, document storage and rich application development environment, which supports sharing all kinds of data between different computing platforms and various networks including the Internet. Lotus Notes is a document database management system: its most basic element is a separate document. Because Notes documents can contain both structured and unstructured content, Notes can store and manage all kinds of data that relational database systems or other database systems cannot. In addition, using the document model, Notes provides users with a lot of 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 to deal with all kinds of information stored on the Internet. One of the most basic characteristics of the replication group platform is to support the ability of working group 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 local servers. Notes has outstanding replication technologies, including bidirectional replication, efficient replication, MobileReplication, field-level selective replication and back-end replication. Many enterprises in the safe world have begun to establish their own application systems that include all departments of the enterprise and even suppliers and customers. Although individuals, departments and the whole enterprise have realized the valuable value and exclusivity of information, the competitive environment in today's shopping malls forces enterprises to break the original boundaries existing 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 innovative creation. Of course, in groupware system, the information enjoyed by * * * still needs to be secured to prevent intentional destruction. Therefore, groupware platform requires not only firm measures to protect key business data, but also 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 be used not only for personal communication, but also for supporting collaborative work among working group members. Notes provides a very simple and easy-to-learn email system for beginners. At the same time, Notes also enables skilled users to call email management tools quickly, and they can use it to process and organize a large number of emails. Notes Mail messages can contain links to any document in Notes databases, including Discussions, Customer Profiles, Web pages and Newsfeeds. Most workflow systems need to decide whether to notify someone or update a database according to a certain state of workflow or a certain value of 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 otherwise processed. Workflow applications can also monitor the workflow and send a backup email to restart the process once it is paused. Notes mail transmission can be used together with workgroup schedule planning 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. Application Development Lotus Notes contains an integrated development environment, which provides rich development tools for users at different levels. Even users without 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-table, field, view, agent and file class; Complete set of built-in programming tools-Lotusscript, Notes formula language, Navigators-perfect database integration function-Lotusscript data object (LS:DO), NotesPump and many Business partner DBMS products; Use the functions 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 simultaneously 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 construct an application program based on Client/Server (client/server) structure that was previously impossible to construct. This application program is suitable for both internal and external enterprises, and can also exchange information among customers, business partners, investors and suppliers. Like the Web, LotusNotes is based on a complex text, document-oriented database, tables containing fields and the concept of 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 has expanded the use of Notes server, which can support Web (World Wide Web) browser as an alternative client. Due to its full support for local Internet and Web (World Wide Web) standards, Lotus has also increased the value of Notes clients, including end users and Web (World Wide Web) information management for 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 whole set of functions to internal information 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 display powerful functions in today's multi-machine cooperation system environment because of its multi-platform support. No matter what platform, all Notes clients can access all servers, exchange information, send and receive e-mails, and participate in various services within the scope of Notes services. With the built-in support of 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 industry. Mobile computing Notes allows 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 a Notes server by using a telephone line. Notes replication technology enables mobile users to have the ability to extract information and speed up the communication of working groups on the road, 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 their clients to the server. If mobile workers can't get timely and urgent events conveniently and quickly, they will still feel inconvenient. In other words, users need the server to provide them with relevant information automatically. Notes paging processing service can meet this need, and it can actively report important emails or events to mobile users.

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