Composite Applications - A major leap for Lotus Notes
Composite Applications - A major leap for Lotus Notes
September 2009
A common problem for companies today is that precious data is held in multiple silos of applications and trying to search for data requires searching in all of these silos individually with copious use of cutting and pasting to complete a business process. This becomes very frustrating for staff and costs the business time and money.
Providing your people with the right information can accelerate your business processes. Linking the people who run your business to the information they need can make your people more productive (working quickly), more effective (working on the right things) and more efficient (aligned with business goals).
Composite applications in Notes 8.x can help. They effectively build a bridge between your employees and the information that they need on a day to day basis. Composite applications integrate multiple applications together on the desktop to share and dynamically change information in real time as the end user works the business process. By optimising the information for the task at hand and freeing the end users from distraction, precious time can be shaved off of time sensitive business processes.
Composite applications can bridge both information technology and line of business systems so that end users have the right information, at the right time. Silos of applications are integrated together in one desktop application that can accelerate the business process and reduce the amount of time it takes to get tasks done; existing applications can also be integrated into the Composite application desktop and reuse of applications can reduce the amount of retraining for your staff. New functions can also be introduced beside old ones to minimise migration concerns.
By integrating information across applications, your employees will notice they no longer need to switch between applications to get the job done. The screens automatically appear, as needed, and can be pre-populated with data. As the users change the data, they will notice that other applications that rely on that data automatically change. The desktop environment is no longer a place for static and stale information, but rather a dynamic work environment that has up to the minute information, presented in the context of what the user is doing. This enables your team to respond to changes in the information as they happen, to speed up response time and to increase their ability to adapt to external pressures placed on the business. Leveraging the power of Lotus Notes, composite applications can provide your team with the ability to coordinate calendaring, project management and other activities so that scarce resources are used efficiently.
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