This whitepaper discusses the Business case, vision, and the approach for migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint, along with some key best practices that needs to be considered for a successful migration process and graceful acceptance of the new platform within your organization.
Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint
The Business Case, Approach and Process of Migrating Lotus
Notes Applications to Microsoft SharePoint
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Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint Page 1 Self Service, and a template based approach for Executive Summary easily integrating and collaborating on The evolution of the internet, technology and the information from backend legacy systems as well advent of new generation concepts like Web 2.0 as information sources from the internet among are having a tremendous impact on businesses. others. Moreover, it provides extensibility in the Many forward-thinking organizations are moving form of Web services and object model which can towards implementing a technology or a solution be efficiently utilized to develop collaborative, platform that is social, focused on user experience, social, productivity and business critical information based and contextual and can applications for the Enterprise in a short span of integrate with multiple systems to aggregate time at a lower cost of implementation. information and deliver it through a single point SharePoint allows organizations to consolidate and of access making end users of the systems more centralize their content, data, documents, productive, efficient and better informed. At the processes, applications and people to provide same time, the expectation is that the technology information in context and in a self service manner platform is easy to manage, flexible and scalable leading to better utilization of business critical and reduces the overall cost of ownership. information for better informed, quicker and Organizations in the past have adopted Lotus Notes collaborative decision making processes, increasing to be their primary technology platform for the overall efficiency and productivity of the collaboration and as a solution platform for organization at the same time reducing the total building productivity as well as business critical cost of administration and ownership. applications. Most of these organizations are now Optimus BT has helped several Fortune 500 and planning to, or are in the process of migrating from SMBs to successfully migrate their technology and the Lotus Notes platform to others in an effort to solution platform from Lotus Notes and bring in the new generation concepts, technology QuickPlace to Microsoft SharePoint - both WSS and tools within their business environment. 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Our unique engagement Microsoft SharePoint has over the years gained the methodology involves the key stakeholders as reputation of being a robust collaboration platform well as the end users of the system as often and that will satisfy the needs of small, mid market and as early in the process making the migration from large enterprises alike, and is considered as the Lotus Notes and adoption of SharePoint as the ideal target platform for migrating applications, new target platform seamless and graceful. databases and technology from Lotus Notes. The In this whitepaper, we cover some of the aspects reason being, SharePoint, as a single platform required for successful migrations including the provides inbuilt support for a host of features business case, vision, strategy and process, along desired by organizations including Enterprise with some of the key best practices involved and is Content Management, Document Management, to be adhered to during the process of migration. Personalization, Extensible Search, Forms and Workflows for automation, Business Intelligence,
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