These two products have undergone two years of development and testing by more than 25,000 businesses around the world.
IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM Lotus Domino 8 represent the "industry's first enterprise collaboration solution" and are largely designed after getting inputs from customers, a company statement said.
According to the statement, research and insight gained from IBM, R and D laboratories and businesses worldwide indicate overall collaboration has superseded e-mail as the key characteristic of their desktop experience.
"Consequently, Lotus Notes 8 is designed to transform the inbox into an integrated workspace
that brings together email, calendar, instant messaging, office productivity tools and custom applications," IBM said.
More than 93 per cent of Lotus Notes customers use the most recent two releases, a high adoption rate, the company said. "Further, annual service subscription renewal rates within Lotus Notes licences exceed 20 per cent of the industry average, indicating broad, fast adoption," it added.
Lotus Notes 8 is much more than e-mail, IBM said, adding, that it integrates work by building in instant messaging and presence awareness, office tools to create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets and infusing a business' custom applications, including help desk, CRM, sales force, discussion forums and blogs.
