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LOTUS DOMINO: APPLICATIONS INTEGRATION - SYSTEM INEGRATOR APPROACH
To integrate Lotus Domino with third-party systems using integrator’s approach, the integration tools selection depends on your specific need. For example, to create simple report for Lotus Domino it is not feasible to purchase solution, which provides data synchronization in real time for multi-platform systems. Only integration possibilities list (without the solutions to solve them) will be several pages long in range from antivirus mail software to data exchange with ERP and CRM systems. Practically in every area, mentioned above IBM offers the solution based on its own or partners’ development. Following we will list major tools that make it possible to interact with Lotus Domino:
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·IBM DB2 Content Manager product line provides data integration and consolidation from different sources;
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·IBM DB2 Information Integrator product line enables access to the data and content from different sources;
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·IBM Directory Integrator deals with catalogues synchronization;
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·IBM Intelligent Miner product line provides correlation analysis and searching of hide regularities in data;
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·IBM WebSphere MQ product line gives you guaranteed messages delivering between loosely-coupled applications in heterogeneous environment with transaction mechanism support;
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·IBM Lotus Workplace provides groupware functionality for users;
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·IBM WebSphere Portal Server gives the possibility to work with data utilizing portal solutions ideology;
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·IBM Tivoli product line arms you with convenient tools for local and remote software administration;
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·IBM Rational product line enables application creation from model to testing in RUP and UML frames.
All of stated above solutions are scalable and supported on different platforms. The author practically works with five of the listed above products and gets positive impression. The main difficulties relate to products installation and their connection to Lotus Domino. Practically all products require specific administration knowledge (and plus they are non-desktop type of applications)
As a result issue of the article we may say that Lotus Domino can be really integrated with majority of third party systems and such the integrations can be considered as industrial-strength (not just test environments) solutions.
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