The most complicated part of any migration is the migration of complex custom applications. We discussed the migration of simple content in our previous post, but the history and variety of complex applications make them an entirely different beast. Most enterprises have at least a few complex custom apps; those apps are often built over…
DetailsEnterprise collaboration, as a software product/service domain, has had something of a roller coaster history, with lots of ups and downs. Starting with the combined send-and-share (messaging/documents) focus of Lotus Notes in the late 1980s and continuing through the enterprise social wave of recent years, enterprise collaboration offerings haven’t consistently delivered on vendor visions or…
DetailsThe Microsoft Office 365 juggernaut is rapidly gaining momentum in the enterprise market. A Gartner survey taken during early January 2016 and summarized in a complimentary Gartner webinar (which you can view by registering at this Gartner page), based on responses from 461 Gartner Research Circle members, revealed: 78% of the survey respondents indicated they…
DetailsSeveral of our previous blog posts, including Migrating Notes/Domino Deployments to Office 365, A Revised and Reduced Role for Traditional SharePoint in Office 365, and Google Apps => Office 365 Migration Patterns, provide details about enterprise content/collaboration migration patterns. This post provides a drill-down into migration cost savings that can be achieved with the CASAHL…
DetailsDecember 7, 2014 marked the 25th anniversary milestone for IBM Notes/Domino (originally known as Lotus Notes). The milestone provides an opportunity to briefly reflect on the legacy of Notes/Domino, and also on what enterprises that deployed the platform over the last quarter-century are now doing to fully leverage more modern collaboration and content platforms. Note…
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