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In IBM’s demo site for Lotus Symphony, you can find recorded demos as well as demo scripts about using Lotus Symphony to increase office productivity. As a short brief, IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of office productivity applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. It is designed to handle the majority of tasks that end users perform. Lotus Symphony supports open standards and is available at no charge from IBM.
Click here to access IBM’s demo site for Lotus Symphony.
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Lotus® Quickr is a Web 2.0-based team collaboration software that helps sharing content, collaborating and working faster online with your teams. It includes a content repository, content management and team collaboration capabilities, and connectors that allow you to access Lotus Quickr from within desktop applications. Lotus Quickr Content Integrator is middleware that helps you integrate and migrate content from existing repositories into Lotus Quickr team places. It is used to migrate content from the following sources:
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Here are the top five reasons why you’d like to try Lotus Symphony:
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When you break down the IT budget, it’s often difficult to find room to maneuver. Organizations must maintain and upgrade business-critical solutions and applications, and priority projects quickly absorb remaining funds. In some cases, however, the amount you pay for application license renewals may be out of balance with the value that the applications actually deliver to users and the organization. This is often true with office productivity applications.
The IBM Lotus Symphony suite—which is available at no charge—can help you take back control of your IT budget while giving most users the tools they need to excel at their jobs. IBM Lotus Symphony tools enable users to create, edit and share word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
If there were a more cost-effective solution that provided the capabilities and features that most users need and that worked with existing applications required by power users—organizations could break out of a costly upgrade cycle and better allocate IT funds.
Of course, it’s understood that in an enterprise environment, “free” doesn’t mean no cost. You must consider roll out, training and support costs. Regardless, Lotus Symphony software can still help free up large amounts of money over the long run.
For learning more about how IBM Lotus Symphony provides you value, click here.
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Datamation magazine released the winners in their Product of the Year contest for 2008 and Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category. In this category, Lotus Symphony beat out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. Read the complete article here http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php
Lotus Symphony Background Info
IBM Lotus Symphony is a set of productivity tools that are provided at no charge. The following applications make up Lotus Symphony:
- Lotus Symphony Documents,
- Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets,
- Lotus Symphony Presentations.
Lotus Symphony helps controlling the spiraling upgrade costs while ensuring access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments. Lotus Symphony can be downloaded from here http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/products
Lotus Symphony for Lotus Notes Users
Lotus Notes 8 software includes an integrated version of Lotus Symphony. It is possible to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without ever leaving the familiar Lotus Notes user interface.
By providing support for OpenDocument Format (ODF), importing and editing Microsoft® Office documents and exporting them to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions is possible.
Besides this Lotus Symphony applications could be accessed from within the Lotus Notes 8 tabbed user interface. Also clicking and sending documents via email from within the individual Lotus Symphony applications and exporting content to Adobe® PDF format is possible.
Development and Documentation and OpenDocument and Standards 3:35 am
IBM developerWorks has published a tutorial about the OpenDocument Format for Office Applications
(ODF).
The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an XML standard that lets you store and exchange office application documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Whether you try to perform special tasks on files saved from such applications or […]