Lotus Symphony. Siew Chen Way Lotus Technical Consultant

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1 Lotus Symphony Siew Chen Way Lotus Technical Consultant

2 What is Lotus Symphony? A set of office productivity applications Create, edit, share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations Can handle the majority of tasks required by end users Supports Open Document Format (ODF) Supports Microsoft Office and other file formats Available at no charge to anyone and everyone Download: Web-based support and community forums

3 Why is IBM doing this? We'd like to see an open-standard approach in which customers can create documents in Microsoft Word but share them with other products, pull them into other editors, manage, store, retrieve, and modify them, and not necessarily have to buy a full suite of Microsoft technology to do that. That's the issue. Steve Mills in BusinessWeek

4 Why is IBM doing this? We find Microsoft Office, particularly the Microsoft Word phenomenon, as essentially impeding some of the strategies that we're trying to drive in the marketplace. It's not because the editor's a bad editor, it's because the formats are not open. Steve Mills on MSNBC

5 Why is IBM doing this? Symphony addresses the concerns that potential OpenOffice.org users might have had in regard to using open source software: Symphony is backed by the IBM brand, and is provided as a commercially developed and supported product suite. IDG News

6 Why is IBM doing this? Mr. Mills said that IBM had been backing Open Document Format for several years, and felt it is important to provide, with Symphony, software that supports it. He noted that IBM's embrace of the free Linux operating system and other open-software products helped make them successful, and said he hopes for similar results with open desktop products. Wall Street Journal Online

7 Open Document Format in Context Your documents and content: do whatever you want with them, whenever you want, with whatever application you wish to use

8 Lotus Symphony applications Lotus Symphony Documents Lotus Symphony Presentations Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets

9 Lotus Symphony Supported file formats Additional supported formats Export documents, spreadsheets and presentations to Adobe PDF Import Lotus SmartSuite documents, spreadsheets, and presentations

10 Lotus Symphony Documents Create, edit, and share complex word processing documents Robust feature set including: Formatting options for text, page, paragraph Headers, footers, footnotes, indexes, table of contents Drawing tools Pre-defined document styles Pre-defined fields (i.e., dates, page numbering)

11 Context sensitive & customizable toolbars Context sensitive menus Pre-defined document styles

12 Lotus Symphony Presentations Create, edit, and share complex presentations Robust feature set including: Pre-defined presentation templates Slide show mode with animations and page transitions Speaker presentation timing and rehearsal modes Speaker notes Flexible navigation views page by page, text outline, page thumbnail, and speaker note views

13 Context sensitive & customizable toolbars Context sensitive menus Support for presentation templates Flexible navigation and multiple views

14 Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets Create, edit, and share complex spreadsheets Robust feature set includes: Supports conventional row and column format for spreadsheets Spreadsheet sizes up to 256 columns and 65,536 rows Supports up to 256 sheets per spreadsheet Large library of pre-defined calculation functions

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17 Lotus Symphony web-based community Provide crisp, intuitive, end-user oriented web experience Keep It simple and make it sticky More than product pages creating a community Vehicle for establishing dialog directly with users Augment usage experience

18 Lotus Symphony web-based community Community-oriented website focused on ensuring user success Download the tools Get tips, templates, clip-art, quick reference cards, samples, bite-sized tutorials, and migration advice Contribute back to the community Lotus Notes 8 users have Passport Advantage Support Agreements for Productivity Tools

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