IBM to Provide Global Network Offering Supporting Lotus Notes

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., August 9 ... IBM today announced a worldwide network
offering supporting Lotus Notes, enabling businesses to implement Notes
applications on the IBM Global Network.

The IBM Global Network offering for Lotus Notes is currently being
implemented with selected customers. By the end of the year, these
customers will have access to Notes-based applications in more than 450
locations in nearly 40 countries around the world. The IBM Global Network
offering for Notes will be made widely available by early 1996.

Lotus' business partners and IBM will provide consulting, advisory and
systems integration services to help customers implement the IBM Global
Network offering for Notes within their businesses. These services will be
complemented by network-based application services that enable users to
easily and securely access Notes applications without having to invest in
building and running a wide-area network. IBM plans to make the IBM Global
Network service for Notes interoperable with other networked Notes
services.

"Existing, customized and new applications are easily ported to Notes on
the IBM network," said Peter Steele, president, U.S. Technologies. "This
means IBM and Lotus software providers and business partners can quickly
get their applications to a very wide audience."

The IBM Global Network offering for Notes will also feature the ability to
make customers' Notes information available via the Internet. With the
Lotus InterNotes Web Publisher, the service will automatically convert
Lotus Notes applications into World Wide Web pages. The InterNotes Web
Publisher also will allow organizations to create forms in Notes that can
be completed by the millions of users of the World Wide Web. This makes it
simple for organizations to create, update and manage information on the
Web. IBM currently is engaged in customized deployment of the Notes
service with several companies worldwide. For example, IBM is assisting
Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in its worldwide rollout of Lotus Notes.

"The integration of the IBM Global Network and Lotus Notes will help our
business teams throughout our 272 offices in 64 countries react to market
conditions, coordinate efforts and share information and knowledge," said
Paul Cuccia, chief information officer, O&M.

"Lotus Notes on the IBM Global Network will provide an easy and secure way
to organize, share, discuss and electronically publish information within
and between enterprises, suppliers and customers, while offering powerful
support for rapidly developing and delivering easy-to-use new services,"
said Fernand B. Sarrat, general manager, IBM Networked Application
Services.

Larry Moore, vice president, Lotus Interenterprise Computing Group, said,
"This partnership further solidifies the role of Notes as the platform for
a growing number of companies to expand their communications inside their
traditional enterprise boundaries and outside to inter-enterprise
customers, suppliers and partners."

With more than 2 million users, Lotus Notes is the leading client/server
platform for developing and deploying strategic groupware applications
that help organizations communicate, collaborate and coordinate strategic
business processes.

Notes is part of a portfolio of tools and services available on the IBM
Global Network to enable electronic commerce, content hosting and
collaborative services. The portfolio includes support for World Wide Web
authoring and navigation, as well as tools for common services such as
registration, billing, directory, security and authentication.

The IBM Global Network supports a broad range of communications protocols
(TCP/IP, SNA APPN, NetBIOS, IPX and OSI) and operating systems (OS/2,
OS/400, MVS, AIX, UNIX and Windows.) The IBM Global Network is one of the
world's largest providers of integrated data, voice and video services,
with 25,000 customers in more than 850 cities in over 100 countries
worldwide. IBM offers a broad range of solutions such as network
outsourcing, value-added telecommunications services, Internet enablement
and network enabled applications.

Separately, IBM announced today that it is working concurrently with other
leading solution providers to put their existing applications on the
network and develop future applications that will use the IBM Global
Network's portfolio of common services. Companies leveraging this
portfolio to develop and deliver network-based solutions to their
customers around the world include:

-Acxiom Corporation, Conway, AZ: multi-sourced databases for
   business-to-business marketing,

-D.X.I. Incorporated, Pittsburgh, PA: data bases of ocean-going
   traffic rates and tariffs,

-Entertainment Communications Network, Los Angeles, CA: communications
   for entertainment professionals,

-Global Information Network Services, LLC (GINS), Central Islip, NY:
   international market development software,

-Honicorp, Inc., New York, NY: interactive marketing for the art
   community,

-Identitech Inc., Melbourne, FL: enterprise document management
   system,

-Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, PA: electronic
   library,

-J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO: fundamental financial
   applications,

-Road Scholar, Houston, TX: geographic and physical mapping,

-SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC: enterprise-wide information delivery,

-Salt Creek Communications, Peachtree, GA: long-term health care
   industry solutions, and

-Template Software, Inc., Herndon, VA: workflow management for
   distributed solutions.

IBM's Industry Solution Units also are leveraging the network's
capabilities to provide solutions in finance, insurance, health care,
retail services and government.  Those offerings include:

- Health Data Network Service: makes patient information available to
providers, payors, employers and suppliers,

- Continuous Replenishment Program: streamlines distribution by
facilitating ordering, forecasting and scheduling,

- Online Access of Public Records: makes land records, property assessment
and tax data readily accessible to businesses and private individuals.

More information can be found on IBM's World Wide Web home page at:
http://www.ibm.com
 
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