Lotus Notes migration to SharePoint Server 2010
Microsoft SharePoint technologies are powerful tools that inspire proper business workflow design, team productivity, and collaborative working methods. Working with companies of all sizes, Visionet Systems will recommend the ideal SharePoint solution and work with you to implement the technology using industry's best practices. VisionetSystems can help provide value by leveraging the experience and tools that our team has to offer.
We will work with you to
- Design the SharePoint plan and architecture that is right for your company, ensuring that all business requirements are met.
- Plan the implementation or migration from start to finish, including preparation, hardware and software requirements, risk assessment, milestone development, implementation planning, and wrap-up tasks
- Assist in the implementation or migration project on a time and materials basis, or manage the project from beginning to end.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2010 is a good fit solution to perform the conversion of the system into sharepoint with all its existing data intact. SharePoint supports many web features ‘out of the box’, significantly reducing the time required to get sites up and running. SharePoint also provides:
+ Improved Orginizational Efficiency
+ Centralized Management / Security Management
+ Interactive User Interface
+ Comprehensive Content Management and Enterprise Search Features
+ Shared Electronic Business Processes and Forms
+ Facilitates Information Sharing Across Geographical Boundaries
+ Business Intelligence
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Visionet uses its state-of-the-art data conversion tool VisiMigrate which easily converts application data as per your convenience before transferring to SharePoint. The system allows you to map a single Lotus view to multiple SharePoint lists and vise versa. Multithreaded application implementation dramatically reduces migration process time when compared with other data migration tools. VisiMigrate enables you to move content from source Lotus Notes database files to their mapped elements in SharePoint 2010. Migrate an entire Lotus view or just an individual content item or field. Granular or bulk content migration allows administrators to plan migration jobs according to business needs. Administrators can create a mapping file that can be used by all other users. Mapping information can be saved in the form of XML.
Visionetsystems provides in-depth understanding of SharePoint services. Equally important, visionet has the expertise to analyze business processes to position SharePoint to best support your unique document management and collaboration requirements.
Solution Strategy
Branding
Information Architecture and Usability
Application Design and Implementation
Infrastructure Architecture and Deployment
Product Configuration and Implementation
Custom Components and Integration
Site Upgrades
Lotus Notes Application Components
- Uses Lotus Notes version 7
- Recently migrated email messaging to Microsoft Exchange/Outlook platform
- Next step is to migrate Lotus Notes applications to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - MOSS 2010
- Thousands of Lotus Notes applications
- Multiple databases use Standard Lotus Notes templates for:
- Discussion
- Logs
- Documents Sharing
- Different custom templates
- Different databases also implement workflow functionality
- Some does not use any template
- Initial scope of the project may be to select 100-150 databases for conversion to MOSS 2010
MOSS –Architecture
MOSS Architecture Components relevant to the Applications are:
- Libraries (unstructured information) and Lists (Structured/Data)
- Libraries support folders and versioning
- Lists can be standard (tasks, calendar) or custom (business entities)
- Communication
- Announcements. Discussions
- Workflow
- To manage life-cycle of an item
- Driven through business rules
- User Roles based
- Feature Framework
- Packaging of SharePoint Elements into Business Process Functions
- Events Processing
- Changes, Addition, Removal of List items, schema changes
MOSS equivalent of an Application (Lotus Notes Database) is a Site
- Site contains all of the above SharePoint Elements
- Centralized Site Columns collection defines all entities for the Sites Collection
SharePoint Applications – Recommended Pattern
Application Workspace
- Lists, Site Columns, Document Libraries, Static Content
Custom Forms
- ASP.NET web-pages designed for better presentation and Customer branded look and feel (Master pages and CSS)
- Web-parts for common business objects and functions – reusable in other applications
Workflows configured for within and cross-application tasks orchestration
Site Columns for common data definition and records storage
- Develop data relationships for within and cross-site lookups
- Reference data can be managed using standard list forms – saves time and cost
Views – to view lists ordered according to the business function
Dashboards – to aggregate Status from multiple sources
Event Handlers for business processes
Security – using SharePoint Roles based security integrated with Active Directory
Package SharePoint solutions for ease of deployment

