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IBM announces

worldwide network

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Lotus Notes

KARACHI: IBM on Friday announced a worldwide network offering supporting Lotus Notes, enabling businesses to implement Notes applications on the IBM Global Network.

The IBM Global Network offering for Lotus Notes is currently being implemented with selected customers. By the end of the year, these customers will have access to Notes-based applications in more than 450 locations in nearly 40 countries around the world. The IBM Global Network offering for Notes will be made widely available by early 1996.

Lotus's business partners and IBM will provide consulting, advisory and systems integration services to help customers implement the IBM Global Network offering for Notes within their businesses. These services will be complemented by Network-based application services that enable users to easily to invest in building and running a wide-area network. IBM plans to make the IBM Global Network services for Notes interoperable with other networked Notes services, including AT&T Network Notes.

Existing customized and new applications are easily ported to Notes on the IBM network, said Peter Steele, president, US Techhnologies. "This means IBM and Lotus software providers and business partners can quickly get their applications to a very wide audience."

The IBM Global Network offering will also future the ability to make customers' Notes information available via the Internet. With the Lotus Inter Notes Web Publisher, the service will automatically convert Lotus Notes application into Worldwide Web pages. The InterNotes Web publisher will also allow organisations to create forms in Notes that can be completed by the millions of users of the Worldwide Web. This makes it simple for organisations to create, update and manage information on the Web

IBM is currently engaged in customized deployment of the Notes services with several companies worldwide e.g. Ogilvy Mather Advertising.

Lotus Notes on IBM Global Network will provide an easy and secure way to organize, share, discuss and electronically publish information within and between enterprises, suppliers and customers, while offering powerful support for rapidly developing and delivering easy-to-use new services.

With more than 1.5 million users, Lotus Notes is the leading client/server platform for developing strategic groupware applications that help organisations communicate, collaborate and coordinate strategic business processes.

The IBM Global Network is one of the world's largest providers of integrated data, voice and video services, with 25,000 customers in more than 850 cities in over 100 countries worldwide. It offers a wide-range of solutions such as network outscoring, value-added telecommunication services, Internet enablement and network enabled applications.