Blog IBM Productivity Tools
Lotus Notes 8 includes, at no extra charge, a suite of office productivity tools that enable users to create, edit, and collaborate on a wide variety of file types. IBM productivity tools support the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF), which is being embraced across businesses, organizations, and governments around the world. ODF is an international standard for saving and sharing editable documents, such as word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
IBM productivity tools provide interoperability and flexibility by offering support for multiple file formats. You can read and save to Microsoft Office files and read from IBM Lotus SmartSuite® documents. Both can be saved to ODF format for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions or exported to PDF format. ODF provides the ability to access, use, and maintain your documents over the long term without concern about end of life uncertainties or ongoing license fees. By using ODF-compatible tools, you are not locked into one particular vendor for your productivity tools and you have no need to license, deploy, manage, and integrate multiple solutions. This has the potential for lowering the total cost of managing documents within your organization.
