IT FACTORY Forms New International Professional Services Division for Lotus Notes/Domino Consulting.Business/Technology Editors STAINES, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 "ITF ITF International Transport Workers' Federation ITF International Tennis Federation ITF In the Future ITF International Trust Fund (demining NGO based in Slovenia) ITF International Transport Forum Solution International" to Address Key Issues Such as Application Migration and Integration, Ensuring Greater Returns From Investments in Notes/Domino IT FACTORY Inc., the leading international supplier of collaborative e-business solutions, today announced the formation of a new professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. division called ITF Solution International. The division will be headed by Notes industry veteran Ian White Ian White might refer to:
service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to support the rapidly expanding customer and partner base of IT FACTORY throughout Europe and Asia. With broad experience and comprehensive skills in Notes/Domino development, the new division will address key issues within Notes organizations such as application migration, application integration and Microsoft-Lotus integration. ITF Solution International, which is the international counterpart to ITF Solution US, will also provide business partners with a model for success by working directly with `leadership accounts' in key business sectors. Ian White has been working with Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. and Domino since its commercial introduction in the UK in 1991. In various roles, Mr. White has worked with companies including SmithKline Beecham, Barclays Bank, Ladbrokes, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Lotus itself, primarily around Notes infrastructure and how organizations can most effectively deploy Lotus' industry-leading collaborative technology. Mr. White's comprehensive involvement and ongoing contact with the Lotus Business Partner community ensures a good understanding of the true synergies between ISVs, Business Partners and corporate users. White explains: "Of the Times Top 100 companies, approximately 80 percent use Lotus Notes. Of those, the vast majority are not enjoying the full potential of their investment in Lotus Notes due to many unforeseen migration and integration issues, among others. ITF Solution consultants collaborate with the business partner community and such companies to bring their Notes applications, development, infrastructure, deployment and training all under a single relationship, ensuring the full value of their initial investment in Lotus technology." Business issues associated with Lotus Notes include migration, technical integration, deployment, and staffing of the Notes development team. The IT FACTORY offering tackles these quickly and efficiently through the use of its common architecture, software development kit (to save `reinventing the wheel') and suite of business applications. The industry's first commercial SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). for Lotus Notes, the ITF Software Development Kit is a comprehensive set of development tools that enable the rapid development of highly structured, integrated and Web-enabled Notes/Domino business applications. The ITF SDK builds upon a uniform set of objects, databases and design methodologies to bring much needed structure to Notes application development. Release 5.0 of the ITF Software Development Kit, announced in January 2000, supports all Domino R5 design elements including outlines, pages, framesets, images, applets and shared actions. ITF 5.0 also offers extended support for Notes R5's enhanced browser compatibility The ability of a Web browser to effectively display the HTML code and execute the scripts on Web pages. The changes in HTML features since the mid-1990s, along with the versions of JavaScript and Java languages, combined with the differences between Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer , making the browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used an easy choice as the client for the Domino Server. About IT FACTORY IT FACTORY is the leading global supplier of collaborative e-business solutions, supported by an award-winning development architecture and comprehensive set of software development tools. Four-time Lotus Beacon Beacon, city (1990 pop. 13,243), Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the E bank of the Hudson River; settled 1663, inc. in 1913 when Fishkill Landing and Matteawan villages were united. Award winner (and six-time finalist), IT FACTORY has a rapidly expanding installed base of more than 500,000 ITF product licenses worldwide. IT FACTORY distributes its technology through its 100-person professional services group and more than 250 highly qualified business partners, as well as through its on-line storefront, the Shop@IT FACTORY. The company's product line consists of the ITF Software Development Kit(TM), an advanced development architecture for Lotus Notes, the ITF Business Suite(TM), the ITF Plus Suite, and a set of related support and training services. With its more than 250 employees worldwide, IT FACTORY is the world's largest ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. in the collaborative technology industry. IT FACTORY is backed by international venture capital, allowing continued aggressive growth. The Company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , with regional offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Raleigh, NC, Atlanta, GA, and Nashville, TN, and has international offices in Denmark, England, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Australia. Find out more at www.itfactory.com. IT FACTORY, the ITF logo and the ITF wheel are registered trademarks of IT FACTORY A/S. ITF Software Development Kit, ITF Architecture, and ITF Business Suite are trademarks of IT FACTORY A/S. Lotus and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks and Notes and Domino are trademarks of Lotus Development Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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