Solutions For Migrating From Lotus Notes
Solutions for Migrating from Lotus Notes
Customer Success
Transition from Notes with Tools for Seamless Messaging and Application Migration
“Notes Migrator for Exchange ensured that 98
For organizations looking to migrate from the Notes platform, Quest Software offers a complete set of
percent of our staff was immediately productive
following the deployment. Downtime was kept
solutions for seamless, cost-effective migration of mailboxes to Microsoft Exchange and application content
to an absolute minimum – it was a major success
to SharePoint. These tools help you to analyze your existing environment and quickly re-create complex
in every sense.”
applications in SharePoint. Quest tools also al ow your Notes and Microsoft environments to coexist for an
— Norman Noble,
extended period to ensure smooth workflow during integration.
Senior Technical Specialist,
Willis
“We chose Notes Migrator for SharePoint because
it had the most advanced features for migrating
Lotus Notes content to SharePoint 2007. Plus,
Quest Software provided fast and knowledgeable
support to our consultants from intellecom.”
— Marc Werner-Nietz,
Project Manager,
Festo AG & Co KG
Market-Leading Expertise
• Migrated 18 mil ion mailboxes
to Exchange
• Managed 32 mil ion mailboxes
in Exchange
• Migrated more than 4 mil ion
Notes and GroupWise users
to Exchange
• Migrated 36 mil ion accounts
Quest tools allow you to:
to Active Directory
• Analyze Before You Migrate – Quest enables you to analyze your Notes mail and application
environments to better estimate the scope of the migration project. This allows you to manage the
process more effectively.
• Migrate Notes Mailboxes and Calendaring to Exchange – Quest enables organizations to cost-
effectively migrate from Notes to Exchange and Exchange Online while minimizing impact to the
entire organization.
• Migrate Notes Application Content to SharePoint – Quest helps you to cost-effectively migrate
Lotus application content to SharePoint or InfoPath. The scalable Quest tool can automate the process
for standard Notes applications as well as complete advanced migrations of the more complex custom
Notes applications.
• Rebuild Notes Applications in SharePoint – Quest enables you to reduce the cost and time to
recompose Notes applications in SharePoint by 50 to 80 percent. This allows you to reserve your valuable
coding resources for other important projects.
• Coexist Throughout the Migration Process – Quest tools also support the coexistence stage of a
Notes transition.
Best Practices for a Lotus Notes Transition
Assess Your Current Notes Messaging Environment
Quest MessageStats™ Report Pack for Lotus Notes Migration enables you to perform a pre-migration
assessment to plan the path of the migration. You can then monitor the progress of the migration plan
through project management by using up-to-date status reports. These reports give you complete visibility
into the entire project.
Post-Migration Management
Migrate Your Messaging Information
Solutions
Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange provides a cost-effective, high-performance migration from Notes to
• Archive Manager
Exchange and Exchange Online. It migrates users’ e-mail, calendars, tasks, and personal address books to
• MessageStats
the users’ new mailboxes on the Exchange/Exchange Online server. Administrators have complete control
• Policy Authority for
over the migration process through project management and reporting capabilities.
Unified Communications
Ensure Coexistence Between Notes and Exchange
• Recovery Manager
Quest Coexistence Manager for Notes complements Notes Migrator for Exchange to ensure a seamless
for Exchange
migration from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange through high-fidelity e-mail, calendaring and
• Spotlight on Messaging
document hyperlink coexistence. It also delivers ongoing coexistence for organizations that must maintain
• Recovery Manager
the two environments for a prolonged period of time.
for SharePoint
Analyze Your Notes Application Environment
• Site Administrator
Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint includes intuitive tools to analyze your Notes applications prior to executing
for SharePoint
your migration. These tools al ow you to discover Notes databases across all servers in all locations and classify
applications according to technical or business attributes. They enable you to analyze application usage, data
complexity, design complexity, and much more. This analysis identifies active application content to determine
what needs to be migrated, Mapping content to readily available SharePoint templates is straightforward, and
you will easily recognize where development needs to occur.
Manage Your Application Migration Process
Notes Migrator for SharePoint guides you through the process of prioritizing your migration candidates, determining
migration sites, estimating resource requirements, and tracking future migration steps. Many decisions and tasks
may be automated with Quest’s flexible rules-based engine, but ultimate control remains with you.
Migrate Your Application Content
Notes Migrator for SharePoint provides reliable, scalable, and secure content migration from Lotus Notes,
QuickPlace and Domino.doc to SharePoint or InfoPath without data loss. It migrates all Notes data,
including images, file attachments, OLE objects, DocLinks, and rich text, ensuring that all of your valuable
business data is preserved.
Recompose Applications in SharePoint
Quest Web Parts for SharePoint helps you to quickly rebuild your Notes applications in SharePoint without
custom coding. The suite of web parts maximizes the power of SharePoint to connect and manage both
list and library data, within and across sites. This al ows you to easily reconstruct Notes applications with a
consistent look and feel and incorporate rich functionality, data integrity and data security.
Manage the Windows Platform Moving Forward
Once you make the transition from Notes, Quest offers management solutions to ensure your messaging
infrastructure works efficiently and effectively every day, even during migrations. Our solutions reduce your
administrative burden and satisfy end-user service needs. Quest also delivers tools to help you discover,
understand, manage, recover and develop your growing SharePoint environment.
About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help
organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure
and virtual environments. Quest also provides customers with client management through its ScriptLogic subsidiary
and server virtualization management through its Vizioncore subsidiary. Through a deep expertise in IT operations
and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher
expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.
www.quest.com/microsoft
e-mail: info@quest.com
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