Now a days most of the customer moving towards futuristic platforms and preferred SharePoint as an enterprise-wide portal platform.
For Lotus Notes application migration SharePoint is the best target platform only when minimal customization consideration and mapped most of the feature with SharePoint out of the box functionality.
Lotus Notes Application Pain Points.
Lotus Notes is an integrated desktop client for accessing business email, calendars and applications on IBM Lotus Domino servers. The Lotus Notes framework provides applications with functionality to access, store & present information through a user-interface, enforce security and replicate. Below are few identified pain points from Lotus Notes application.
- Lotus Notes databases scattered across different locations
- Orphan databases
- No governance policies
- Concurrent user hits (server) impacts performance
- Multiple database replicas
- All features implemented by performing customization
- Maintenance cost is high
- Co-Authoring is not possible
- Information sharing is not possible
- Information management risk
Migration Phases
Below diagram shows five different phases involved to execute Lotus Notes to SharePoint migration engagement.
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Hope above will help to plan your migration.