What’s New in HCL Domino 2026
Intelligence
HCL Domino IQ now incorporates Retrieval-Augmented Generation, enabling your teams to query decades of organizational knowledge stored in your Domino databases, using natural language, securely behind your firewall, without that data ever leaving your control.
Experience
Cleaner layouts, modern navigation, and updated iconography, shaped by over 1,000 community votes and validated through a 14-customer beta, so the interface reflects how your teams actually work.
Agility
Updated REST APIs and improved JSON parsing for LotusScript to reduce the integration effort required to connect Domino with modern development ecosystems and third-party tools.
Sustainability
Certified support for IBM i 7.6, Red Hat 10, and Windows Server 2025 ensures your infrastructure and Domino investments move forward on the same timeline.
Three Reasons to Choose HCL Domino 2026
Evolve what you already have - faster, with less risk, and at lower cost. That’s the foundation of HCL Domino 2026.
Modernize Without Disruption
A new interface. Enterprise-safe AI. Modern integrations. HCL Domino 2026 delivers all of it as an upgrade to what you already run — no migration project, no parallel systems, no risk to the applications your business depends on. You move forward without having to start over
AI That Stays Within Your Security Boundary
HCL Domino IQ runs private LLMs entirely within your own infrastructure, with no third-party cloud involved and no new platform to learn. It makes previously inaccessible institutional knowledge queryable, enabling your teams to surface, automate, and act on data that was always there but never easy to reach.
Secure Collaboration. Proven Security.
With BSI-certified collaboration and phishing-resistant Passkeys, you get a high-control environment that holds up to the world’s strictest regulatory standards.
Transforming the User Experience
Transforming the User Experience
Intelligence Behind Your Firewall
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Intelligence Behind Your Firewall
Your organization has spent years building knowledge in Domino. HCL Domino IQ with RAG makes it usable, without compromising on data privacy.
HCL Domino IQ adds Retrieval-Augmented Generation directly into your Domino environment, allowing your teams to ask questions and get accurate, context-aware answers drawn from your own databases, documents, and archives. What previously required manual searching across systems now takes a single prompt, with your sensitive information never touching the public internet.
HCL Domino IQ: Intelligent Outcomes for Every Role
For End Users
- Summarize long email threads and extract action items
- Generate draft responses, comments, and reports
- Categorize and route inbound submissions automatically
- Translate content and improve written communication
- Surface faster decisions from existing documents
For End Users
For IT and Admins
- Analyze server log files for anomalies and report issues
- Support troubleshooting and capacity planning
- Extend existing applications with AI in fewer than 20 lines of LotusScript
- Trigger AI actions on events: new mail, document submission, updates
For IT and Admins
For Developers
- Modernize applications quickly without a full rewrite
- Embed event-driven intelligence into any HCL Domino app
- Use domain-specific or industry LLMs for better accuracy
For Developers
HCL Domino IQ in Practice
Banking and Insurance
- Regulatory Compliance (DORA): Analyzing thousands of supplier contracts against regulatory requirements, which previously was a months-long manual process.
- Impact: Review time reduced from months to hours
- Sovereignty: 100% of PII and legal analysis remained behind the firewall, ensuring "Zero-Cloud" compliance
Engineering
- Accelerated Tender Responses: Surfacing relevant reference projects across large Domino databases when responding to complex public tenders.
- Impact: 50% reduction in manual data mining; 30% faster RFP submission.
- Activation: Converted static business data into a searchable, high-value knowledge asset.
Tourism
- Operational Scalability: Handling growing volumes of inbound communications and custom requests with the same team size.
- Impact: 100% of inbound communications handled with AI assistance.
- ROI: 65% of processing fully automated; 23% revenue increase in the first three months.
Keep Your Apps. Upgrade Your Experience.
Keep Your Apps. Upgrade Your Experience.
When there is no compelling case to replace, and the existing TCO outweighs the cost of migration. The smarter decision is to evolve what you already have.
For organizations that need support getting there, the HCL Domino Upgrade Factory provides expert-led assistance at no additional cost.
The Upgrade Assistance includes:
- A complete environment analysis and a clear roadmap
- Expert hands-on assistance during the upgrade
- Support through go-live to ensure a seamless rollout for your users
Summarize emails to save time, extract action items to improve response, and draft replies faster. It also enhances apps by making sense of data and documents.
Choose the LLM to fit your risk profile, run it locally without additional infrastructure, and integrate it using REST APIs, LotusScript, or Java. No internet required.
Avoid unpredictable AI subscription costs, reduce workload with intelligent automation for users and developers alike, and keep your data in-house.
HCL Domino Can Make a Difference in Your Bottom Line
Forrester conducted a total economic impact study for HCL Domino to determine how our app dev platform benefits and delivers a return on investment for our customers. HCL Domino supports a collaborative development team through the entire development lifecycle, leading to improved efficiency. Find out what our customers had to say about how Domino’s impacts their business.
392 %
ROI – Payback Less than 6 Months
50 %
Improvement App Dev Efficiency
10 x
Cost to Replace HCL Domino
Not on the latest version of Domino for Rapid Application Development yet?
When you upgrade your HCL Domino platform, your apps will continue to work no matter what software release you came from. The latest version
of Domino is available for download for customers current on their subscription, or you can speak to our experts to customize your upgrade plan.
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