Evolution Lotus Notes 8.0.2

What's new in Lotus Notes 8.0.2 software

• Integrated viewers allows users to view Microsoft Office 2007 presentations, spreadsheets, and rich text documents within the Lotus Notes client.
• Widgets and Live Text - providing quick and easy access to various widgets that perform relevant business actions - are additionally supported in Lotus Notes 8.0.2 software on supported Linux platforms.
• Lotus Notes 8.0.2 software provides a faster experience for users over prior Lotus Notes 8 releases, launching more than twice as fast as the Lotus Notes 8.0.1 client, and using approximately 20% less memory

What's new in Lotus Notes 8.0.1 software

• Eligible users of Lotus Notes 8.0.1 software may request entitlement to a new wireless e-mail option, called Lotus Notes Traveler, which provides real-time synchronization of Lotus Domino e-mail and PIM data on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 or 6 mobile device (smartphone or Pocket PC).
• My Widgets sidebar panel, providing quick and easy access to various widgets that perform relevant business actions - launched stand-alone via the sidebar or from recognized Live Text in Lotus Notes documents (available only within Lotus Notes 8.0.1 on supported Microsoft Windows platforms).
• Integrated presence awareness and instant messaging capabilities provided by IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0 software.
• Updated 'Activities' sidebar plug-in that supports IBM Lotus Connections 1.0.2 software, helping to organize projects and tasks, and coordinate with teams.
• Integration with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 software, allowing users to manage and share document attachments, helping improve team collaboration and communication.
• Support for Citrix® Presentation Server™ 4.5.

What's new in Lotus Notes 8.0 software

Cool new interface

Showcases a fresh, yet intuitive user interface so that current Lotus Notes users can upgrade seamlessly.
Access data from multiple business applications right within the Lotus Notes client, so you don't have to spend time switching back and forth between different applications.
Access mail, calendar, contacts, to-do list, a personal journal, and a set of productivity tools through a new default welcome page, customizable to the user's preference.
Quickly open applications and traditional Lotus Notes databases via an always available, searchable 'Open' list.
Plug various tools and applications into a new sidebar that provides quick and easy access to the information you need use most. Four plug-ins supplied with the Lotus Notes 8 client let you access integrated instant messaging, feeds, day-at-a glance calendar, and activities (through an optional activities server) out-of-the-box through the sidebar. You can also create and plug in custom or third party applications.
All preferences are configured from a single location, including those associated with locations, instant messaging, activities, and the productivity tools.
Open documents as individual tabs, grouped by related tabbed windows, or opened in individual windows. All open documents can be easily navigated via a thumbnail view.
Use toolbars associated with the activities to which they relate, appearing within each individual Lotus Notes tab rather than grouped directly below the menubar.
Search email, calendar, directories, and the Web using popular search engines with a single, centrally located search center.
Identify, assess, and overcome product difficulties quickly without needing to contact IBM support via IBM Support Assistant that is integrated directly into the Lotus Notes 8 client.

Easy email navigation and management

Preview to your email with either horizontal or vertical preview panes.
Quickly access common actions within a single click, such as create new email, reply-to, and mail views.
Gather email threads together so that you don't need to search through your inbox for the rest of a conversation. View and manage your inbox by topic or conversation rather than by fragmented messages.
Bring recent contacts to the top of your type-ahead list as you address your emails, helping speed up the process while eliminating potential addressing mistakes.
See a consolidated list of all collaborations you've had with an individual, including email in your inbox, meetings in your calendar, and instant messages stored in your chat history.
Configure email headers to show only information that is useful to you.
Turn on instant spell checking to highlight and suggest corrections for misspelled words as you type in rich text fields.
Retrace your steps through more than 50 levels of undo during email or any Lotus Notes document editing.
Sort lengthy email recipient lists so you can quickly see whether a specific individual was included.
Recall email sent in error or to the wrong recipients.

Calendar and scheduling flexibility

See unprocessed meeting invitations in your calendar alongside other meetings and appointments, illustrating schedule overlaps before accepting an invitation.
Optionally keep a record of canceled invitations in your calendar, rather than in your inbox.
Easily see all day events displayed over the whole day, with event title at the top of the page, making it obvious at a glance that this time is already scheduled without scrolling.
Check your schedule while you are creating a meeting invitation, providing quick access to your currently planned events and tasks. Or use the sidebar calendar for a quick check of your schedule.
Easily find available times for invitations by selecting only a subset of required attendees. Unchecked attendees are ignored when searching for free time.

Detailed contact management

See your contacts in a business card view that allows you to quickly scan basic contact information without having to open the associated form.
Store and view photographs of your contacts for a more personalized view.
Select from multiple formats available for country specific formatting of addresses.
Store a wide variety of personal data within an expanded Contact form. See a simplified view of your contacts by suppressing contact fields that contain no data.

Enhanced Out of Office management

Configure whether Out of Office notifications are sent in response to every message that a person sends or only to the first message.
Delegate out office management to those that administer your calendar.
Set the hour at which you will be leaving and returning to the office.
Out of Office notification is disabled automatically when the Out of Office time period expires.

Integrated collaboration tools

Create, manage, edit and import text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with integrated productivity tools which support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard.
Quickly and easily create team work areas to organize and share information to collaborate on a project, without needing to involve the IT staff with an optional activities server (part of Lotus Connections software).

Business mashups

Create, manage, edit and import text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with integrated productivity tools which support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard.
Easily integrate line of business (LOB) solutions and data into new types of applications called composite applications that aggregate components on the screen to present content from multiple systems in a single interface for users.