LOTUS 9.7

Applications:

• Lotus 1-2-3
  Combines 16 years of computer productivity innovations into the world's most famous spreadsheet. IBM's ViaVoice speech engine, integrated with Lotus 1-2-3, enables users to enter and format spreadsheet data by using voice commands. The most recent release offers nearly 60 new @functions and more than 65,000 rows per spreadsheet. 1-2-3's Web tables also allow users to bring live, Web-based information into the spreadsheet to perform analysis functions. Additionally, 1-2-3 release 9.6 offers users improved compatibility with Microsoft Excel.
  
• Lotus Organizer

The industry's most popular personal information manager (PIM) has more than 35 million users worldwide. Organizer 5.0 is the hub for wide-ranging personal information management including Internet group scheduling capabilities, contact management functionality and synchronization with the industry's leading personal digital assistants (PDAs) and access via Web-enabled phones.

• Lotus FastSite

A Web publishing tool that enables users to build a complete, customized Web site within minutes. With FastSite, users can quickly and easily convert groups of files from 25 different file formats, including documents created in Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite to HTML and move them to any Internet, intranet, or extranet site with a mouse click. FastSite also includes dozens of pre-formatted, professionally designed Web SmartMaster looks for creating customized sites. In addition, FastSite offers Verity HTML publishing capabilities that allow users to publish documents created in applications that are not resident on their systems.

• Lotus Word Pro 9.7

Increases word processing productivity by providing advanced technology in the areas of Internet publishing, file compatibility and speech recognition. Word Pro's customized version of the IBM ViaVoice engine also features improved speech recognition for US English, UK English, French, Italian, and German. Additionally, Word Pro 9.7 offers improved file compatibility with Microsoft Word including Word 97 and Word 2000.

• Freelance Graphics
  Freelance Graphics users can now read and write presentations within a PowerPoint file without opening the Freelance application. Additionally, Freelance Graphics now ships with 100 new SmartPics, expanding Freelance's image library. Freelance Graphics gives users a faster, easier way to develop plans, reports and proposals by organizing and summarizing ideas, while simultaneously providing visually compelling documents.
  
• Lotus Approach 9.7

Support for Lotus Notes R5 allows users to directly access their Notes-based data without leveraging their IT departments. Approach 9.7 offers improved performance, IBM DB2 database compatibility for printing and improved query features. With these additions, Lotus Approach continues its legacy as an award-winning relational database, with built-in Internet/intranet capabilities, that provides users the ability to manage, analyze and seamlessly connect to all data, whether it is stored in Lotus Notes, dBASE, DB2, Oracle, or almost any other database format.

• Lotus SmartCenter
  A customizable command center, designed to work like an Internet file cabinet, SmartCenter offers users a simple way to access and organize information from SmartSuite applications, Lotus Notes and the Internet. With built-in Internet content from Yahoo, PC Quote, Intellicast, MapQuest, Travelocity, and other leading Web-based content providers, SmartCenter gives users one-click access to the most updated information they need -- minimizing repetitive, non-targeted Web browsing.

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