Lotus Smartsuite Millennium
SmartSuite ties these all together with a highly useful interface called Lotus SmartCenter, which offers quick access to various features without having to actually open their associated applications. The menu, which can attach itself to either the top or bottom of your screen, is presented as a series of virtual drawers that open at a click.
SmartCenter installs with eight default drawers that offer instant access to SmartSuite applications, Web reference sites, help files, a dictionary and thesaurus, and lists of your contacts and appointments, which can call your data from Lotus Organizer. You can reconfigure or add drawers at will. The value of some of these features is increased by the fact that you can use them outside of the suite as well.
SmartSuite offers a more user-friendly "Approach" to database construction than, say, Corel's Paradox. Building a new database from scratch is relatively simple--a window lets you quickly name each field, and specify the size and data type. rises steeply.
Lotus no longer has the market pull that it had when 1-2-3 was everybody's favorite spreadsheet. But this combination of useful and nicely upgraded applications, combined with Notes integration, gives SmartSuite the edge as a good all-around business suite.