As Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful platform that inspire proper business workflow design, team productivity, and collaborative working methods, more and more enterprises in all sizes are considering migrating their collaborative system to SharePoint. In many cases, companies can simplify their system environment and reduce IT costs by converting legacy applications from Lotus Notes to SharePoint.

Integration or migration of entrenched systems to a new platform can be a difficult and expensive endeavor. Usually, companies facing these challenges do not have qualfiied internal IT staff with the required knowledge and experience to plan and execute the migration. For such reason, Lotus Notes migration projects are often delayed.

MDT InfoTech helps our customers analyze and implement application migration from Lotus Notes into SharePoint. We will recommend the ideal SharePoint solution and work with you to implement the technology using industry's best practices. We leverage various in-house and 3rd-party tools to provide the best solution to respond to customers’ real-world business challenges.

MDT InfoTech’s migration services will utilize the latest version of SharePoint to integrate, extend, or migrate content from your Lotus Notes and Domino applications into your SharePoint environment. Specifically, consultants at MDT InfoTech will:

• Assist you in identifying critical data sources and content for integration or migration to SharePoint ;
• Assist you in design of the target SharePoint sites;
• Set up all required content and application integration and migration jobs;
• Create data transformation to optimize content before delivery;
• Migrate application-level and document-level security information from existing system access control lists to SharePoint;
• Develop staged migration processes with appropriate frequencies for different data sources to optimize hardware and network resources;
• Provide training sessions on SharePoint Integration and Migration to customer’s IT staff.

Here are some typical Lotus Notes migration user scenarios:

Lotus Notes applications and content migration

Companies have multiple Lotus Notes and Domino template-based applications and customized Notes workflow applications. You would like to convert some of these applications to SharePoint and .NET framework.

MDT InfoTech will build a staged migration solution to migrate the desired applications and content to SharePoint. Workflow applications can be re-composed into .NET applications working with SharePoint with declarative workflow logic ready for easy extension or revision.

InfoPath forms generation from Lotus Notes forms

Companies have many complex Lotus Notes and Domino forms that you would like to convert into InfoPath forms. We will generate equivalent InfoPath forms from the Lotus Notes forms, retaining key elements of the original form. We can also convert the content associated with the original forms to XML, bind it to the new InfoPath forms, and host the new forms in SharePoint.

Migrate Lotus Domino Document Manager cabinets into SharePoint

Companies want to migrate large, customized Domino.Doc cabinets to SharePoint, while retaining version history and binder and folder hierarchies. We will build a staged migration to transition data, metadata, access control lists, revision history, and binder and folder hierarchies into SharePoint. Both content and metadata are preserved with full fidelity in SharePoint.

Coexist between SharePoint and Lotus Notes

Some departments in your company are using Lotus Notes and Domino systems. To improve cross-department collaboration, you want to seamlessly integrate some of the Lotus Notes content into your company’s SharePoint collaboration site. We will build a solution to synchronize the selected content in both systems, enabling both groups of workers to collaborate using their own preferred environment, without needing to migrate. We will build automatic conflict detection and resolution into the solution. If you later decide to consolidate the Lotus Notes environment into SharePoint, the same solution can be used to perform a one-time or staged migration.

MDT InfoTech provides complete solutions for analysis, coexistence and migration. Using an established methodology developed from industry standards and broad experience, MDT InfoTech employs state of the art software tools along with proven skills to ensure that projects are executed successfully and result in the highest degree of customer satisfaction. Our general processes for Lotus Notes migration consists of:

Requirement Analysis – MDT InfoTech’s comprehensive migration approach begins with analysis of customer’s migration requirements. Prior to embarking on any migration initiative, customers are encouraged to assess and review their legacy environment in order to better scope and plan their migration project. This phase ensures that customers uncover hidden costs and obstacles that may impact their migration efforts early on in the process.

Detailed Assessment - Once a project is underway, MDT InfoTech recommends performing a detailed assessment of the environment. This phase helps drive down manual work and overall migration costs.

Co-existence – Migration projects that span several weeks or months can greatly benefit from a proper co-existence solution. This phase ensures that disparate messaging systems continue to seamlessly interoperate during the migration project and to ensure that mail enabled applications continue to function properly during the migration project.

Migration - Successful migration projects begin with verifying the migration approach by piloting the plan with a subset of users. Testing in the customer environment is sure to uncover special considerations. Production migrations are executed using the approach refined in the pilot phase.