Today, organizations depend on many tools and technologies to manage the information and ensure sharing of information, using both the enterprises, Intranet and the Internet.

Two of these technologies that are extensively used, include SAP R/3 to structure the data and Lotus Notes to collaborate this data. But managing both of these simultaneously can become an arduous job. Keeping this in mind, many companies came out with various approaches by using, which the two technologies can be brought together on one platform and their functionalities can be combined in one application. This application enables organizations to provide employees with single point of user-friendly access to data, enables them to access data offline and monitor workflows spanning all areas of the organization and ensures automated data entry to R/3. This text is aimed at explaining the integration and the steps that are to be taken to integrate SAP R/3 and Lotus/Domino.

SAP R/3 is one of the most reliable process-oriented applications that have various modules such as Financial Accounting, Material Management etc to take care of resource management requirements of an organization. On the other hand Lotus Notes is an extremely powerful Groupware application in the market today. A number of Enterprise are using SAP R/3 as well as Lotus notes to structure, collaborate and exchange information within and outside the organization. The integration ensures a single point of user-friendly access to data, offline data access and automated accurate data entry to R/3.