iPhone in the Enterprise: Lotus iNotes Ultralite

There are plenty of other ways to get your Lotus Notes mail, calendar and contacts on your iPhone. Tons of us are blogging about it (mine is at http://dominoiphone.wordpress.com). No, none of them are as seamless as if you were running Exchange and EAS, but it's doable.

For the record, we are not yet running 8.0.2, so I cannot comment on how this works in production. However, I have an account at Lotus Greenhouse (greenhouse.lotus.com) and I have used iNotes Ultralite there on my iPhone, and it's not bad.

In order to have better integration with the native apps, Apple either needs to greatly expand the capabilities of the SDK or get to working with IBM's Domino Traveler protocol.

Nice to see the iPhone getting ready for Enterprise finally......

The reason this is implemented as a browser application has got nothing to do with security. There are technical limitations with the published iphone sdk that make implementing a native application not feasible. These links explain it somewhat:
http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/and-a-last-word-on-the-notesiphone-thing
http://www.lotus911.com/nathan/escape.nsf/d6plinks/NTFN-7FGKUB

I've used this web app and it is actually a poor implementation and simply a jazzed up webmail client accessed via safari.

There is no access to the corporate address book, and you can not interact fully with your calendar.

I know IBM are working on a native app so lets hope it comes soon

It'd be more secure to use a native app. With a web app, the caching behavior of the browser is unpredictable. It might be saving all sorts of secret information. With a native app, you can control that - and provide a better user experience.

Sounds like an excuse to me.

Howard Stern would love this thing...supposedly his whole office uses lotus notes...maybe he'll get one now and get rid of his ancient treo

Where is the link for the web 2.0 page? I have both lotus and an iPhone.

What a load of rubbish.

What this means is that my company HAS to implement the latest (or at least newer) version of Domino, followed by implementing an iPhone portal for those users who choose to personally buy and use an iPhone. No chance.

If IBM had released a TRUE iPhone client then we might be OK (as it is I can access Lotus via the webmail system - though of course that doesn't work 100% as it requires Java).

Thanks IBM - for nothing !!

This is great news. I can't wait until my company loads the correct version on the server so I can try it.

Uhh, no app store worries. unfortunately (or fortunately), this is a web app. See the mobile safari bookmark, etc icons at the bottom of the screenshot? Personally, this is really lame but I can understand that IBM basically has no incentive to support iPhone, it's not like adding that feature will drive sales of Domino/Notes, rather more likely to drive sales of iPhones...