10 Facts About IBM Workplace

IBM Workplace is a discontinued a brand of collaborative software applications from IBM's Lotus Software division.

The first IBM Workplace product is IBM Workplace Messaging, a lightweight e-mail solution.

Goal of Workplace largely overlapped IBM's existing Lotus Notes and Domino software, Notes and Domino customers became increasingly worried that Notes and Domino would either be discontinued or at best marginalized in favor of Workplace.

However, by 2007, most IBM Workplace-branded products were being either discontinued or rebranded as Lotus or WebSphere.

Mike Rhodin, general manager of Lotus Software, said that IBM Workplace was a way to shake up the Lotus team into creating innovative technologies, and now that technologies had been created, they were being folded back into the core brands.

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IBM Workplace Client Technology is a defunct application platform built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform 3.

IBM Workplace Collaboration Services is a single product providing a set of communication and collaboration tools such as e-mail, calendaring and scheduling, awareness, instant messaging, e-learning, team spaces, Web conferencing, and document and Web content management.

IBM Workplace Managed Client is a server-managed rich client for IBM Workplace Collaboration Services.

IBM Workplace Managed Client introduced a collaboration tool called Activity Explorer.

IBM Workplace Forms is a suite of products for developing and delivering data-driven, XML-based electronic forms to end-users.