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- Achieve Your Collaboration ObjectivesWhile Managing Expenses:
- SharePoint & Lotus Notes Coexistence
2. Who Is Mainsoft? Founded:1993 Business:Leader in Microsoft-Java EE interoperability Vision:Coexistence between Microsoft & IBM platforms Clients:150+ banking, education, insurance, manufacturing, retail, software development, and government Product Validations:Awards: Recommendedoption for .NET-Java Interoperability 3. Top 5 Technologies for Weathering the Economic Storm Recommendation : Invest in collaboration/social softwaresooner rather than later .
- Collaboration/Social Software
4. 2009:Why Invest in Collaboration? Increase efficiencies, improve business performance
- Drive improvements in business performance using team workspaces to collaborate and share best practices.
- Meet enterprise compliance requirements , without imposing on knowledge workers day-to-day work.
- Reduce cost structure : Facilitate remote communications and reduce travel costs.
5. The SharePoint Tidal Wave
- collaboration anddocument
- The backend to Microsoft Office , SharePoint is tightly integrated with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Itssimple to deploy ,easy to use , and free with Windows Server 2003 or 2007.
6. However. Lotus Notes and Domino customers that adopt SharePoint struggle to meet collaboration objectives.
- Lack of integration with Lotus Notesslows SharePoint adoption
- Accessing SharePoint documents is a multi-step process.
- Emails and documentsrelated to business decisions arelocked up in personal mailboxes.
- Its not possible to publish Lotus Notes emails and associated document attachments on SharePoint.
- These should be simple, 1-step processes.
7. IT Options:Notes to Outlook/Exchange Migration
- According to Ferris Research a typical email migration from Notes to Outlook for12,500 users costs $3.5M .
- Migrating Domino applications costat least twice as muchas email.
- Migration costs :software licensing, application conversion, storage & backup, hardware, migration tools, contractors, and training costs.
- - TCO for Domino and Exchange are identical:$1,800 per year, per email box
- Increased vendor lock-in.
8. IT Options: SharePoint-Notes Coexistence
- Get more valueout of your existing SharePoint and Lotus investments.
- Equip business users withintegrated collaboration and messaging toolsto supportteam communication and coordination.
- Promote the adoption of collaboration tools, at 1/10 ththe cost of anexpensive migration.
9. The Extent of the Problem
- In a survey conducted by Lotus User Group,79%said SharePoint content integration with Lotus Notes is ahigh priority, very important ,orimportant .
- -LotusUserGroup.org ,June 2008
10. SharePoint Integration into IBM Products
- SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes
- SharePoint-Lotus Notes coexistence.
- SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Sametime
- StartSametime chatfrom a document stored on SharePoint.
- Drag-and-drop SharePoint documents on Sametime IM client .
- SharePoint Integrator for WebSphere Portal
- Secure, role-based accessto all SharePoint lists from WebSphere Portal.
- Composite applicationsthat integrate SharePoint content with LOB applications both .NET and Java.
- Document Collaboration for Rational Jazz (Q1 2009)
- IntroducesSharePoint-based document collaboration to the Jazz process.
- Enhancesend-to-end governance by automating feedback and approvals using Office document workflows.
- Allowsbusiness stakeholderstoimpact software delivery using day-to-day collaboration tools.
11. Strategic Coexistence:Mainsoft SharePoint Integratorfor Lotus Notes
- Client-side plug-inthat providestwo-way accessto SharePoint document libraries from a Lotus Notes sidebar.
12. Strategic Coexistence:Mainsoft SharePoint Integratorfor Notes 6.5.x, 7.x
- docks to the Notes window.
13. Strategic Coexistence:Built on Solid Foundations
- Built onEclipse RCP plug-in architecture; leverages Notes extension points, and
- SharePoint SOAP Web services
- Well documented and stable interfaces.
- Same interfaces used by MS Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Delivers asustainable strategy .
14. Boost Collaboration, SharePoint Adoption
- Make it easy for Notes users to access,
- modify, publish information on SharePoint
- Access SharePoint document libraries
- within the context of a Lotus-based work
- environment (email, Sametime IM, etc.)
- Use Sametimepresence awareness to
- identify, initiate a chat with document
- Save Notes emails and attachments on
- SharePoint . Share correspondence andcontent relevant to a business issue,without clogging team members email boxes.
15. Demo:Mainsoft SharePoint Integratorfor Lotus Notes v 1.5 16. Compliance Made Easy Sharing Notes Emails, Documents on SharePoint 17. Enterprise MashupsPreview Support for Lotus Notes 8.5
- Integratedata and business logicfrom SharePoint, Notes, Domino, and Java apps.
Notes contactsDomino Application Customers documents accessible from the SharePoint sidebarEclipse component 18. Calendar Integration Preview Support for Lotus Notes 8.5
- SharePoint team appointmentsare displayed as an overlay on the Notes calendar and can be edited from Notes.
- Users get anaggregated view of eventsfrom multiple calendars, increasing team collaboration and productivity
19. Champion Solutions Group
- Technology solutions provider and Notes/Domino customer isimplementing MOSSto deliver a Web-based document management, team sites, and integration with back-end Microsoft SQL-based applications.
- Champion selectedMainsoft SharePoint Integratorto integrate SharePoint with Lotus Notes and Sametime.
- We already have a unified communications infrastructure in place thats fully integrated with our business processes, and wedont seea compelling reason to migrateto a Microsoft Outlook and Office in order to unify our messaging and collaboration platforms.
- Mainsoft offers thepractical integration pathwe need tosupport our end users preferred platforms whilepreserving our existing IT investments .
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- Northeastern University offers Lotus Notes 6.x, 7.x and 8.x to its2,500 faculty and staff .
- They also offerSharePoint as a shared servicefor department-level collaboration.Today, 200 people use SharePoint.They anticipate eventually, 500-1,000 will use it regularly.
- Topromote SharePoint adoption , NEU considered a migration to Outlook and Exchange, which offer direct access to SharePoint.
- Instead, the University purchasedMainsoft SharePoint Integratorto integrate their existing messaging and collaboration platforms.
- NEU plansupgrade to Notes 8.5and incorporate additional Notes-SharePoint integration features.
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- Achieve Your Collaboration ObjectivesWhile Managing Expenses:
- SharePoint & Lotus Notes Coexistence