IBM is developing a new, “one-stop-shop” product offering, Lotus Foundations, aimed at companies with five to 500 employees, it said Monday.

Lotus Foundations will consist of on-premise software servers sold primarily through partners. IBM is also developing a set of accompanying Web-hosted services, now available in a beta version.

The company plans to bundle Lotus Domino, file management, directory services, firewall, backup and productivity tools in the initial offering of Lotus Foundations. Customers who need more power will be able to bring on additional servers, according to IBM. The company’s partner community will also be able to integrate their own applications into the core platform.

The server software sold under Foundations will be autonomic or “self-healing,” and therefore appropriate for small companies without paid IT staffers, IBM said.

Foundations will be the home of technology IBM acquired through its purchase last week of Net Integration Technologies. That deal is set to close later this year.

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