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The Notes and Domino 8.5 Business Cases - some asked about it


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On PlanetLotus I saw the posting by Scott Cochrane on the business case for the Domino 8.5 upgrade.  I have been pointing a few out this week but let's do a general rundown in random order (each business will need to prioritize):

  • DAOS - disk savings, for free.  Change ODS (no issue there), transaction logs (plan), enable and go. Instant savings, reduced backups.  Not just for email files
  • ID Vault - better archiving and storage, highly secure, for your id files.  we wanted easier and better id recovery mechanisms and they are delivering.
  • Compressing images pasted into documents, across all database types.  More disk savings
  • Roaming users for the Standard client
  • Widgets and live text for your Mac and Linux users is finally here
  • Nomad support is back
  • iCal feed support
  • Send contact as Vcard
  • Better failover support (still wondering what here)
  • Drag and drop into Sametime, even personal groups
  • Auto populating groups - wow what an admin timesaver
  • True dynamic policies
  • Notes shared logon instead of the old Notes Single Login.  No password sync,

So I have a better idea, I am building a slide deck around this and will push it via SlideShare for everyone.