CIMTrek launches product, claims to move your Lotus Notes apps to the cloud
Tags :cloud hosting LotusLive CIMTrek migration Lotus Notes Lotus Domino applications
I admittedly could not find anything more about the migration product from CIMTrek on their barren website. Just a small product line about how they can seamlessly assess, analyze and migrate your Lotus Notes applications to the cloud. The quote from the press release:
“CIMTrek removes that barrier by providing the tools to discovering what applications your organisation has and what can be migrated. Users can then define which apps they want and then in one simple click can migrate all identified applications. At this stage we have focused on IBM Lotus Notes which has over 600,000 users here in the UK alone,” he added. “The beauty of CIMTrek is that it makes no assumptions as to how you do business. We don’t ask that you change your modus operandi. We won’t ask you to buy any software!”
It might just be me, but have we not heard this before? They cite lots of stats of why you would move, how many companies have moved, how many will move.. yada yada. But nothing on how they move you. No screenshots, demos or documentation. All the links to videos and more simply point you to buy a book he helped author.
I couldn't figure out the company name from the founders or anything else until I ran across this:
The name CIMtrek was inspired by the tag-line ‘Collaborate in Motion’
From another article or two I found. It seems he is targeting the UK customers first with the tactic claiming 6,000 UK companies with Notes. I especially like the squirt comment:
The CIMtrek application, developed by a team of developers working for Pyke in the UK, will identify business processes and data dependencies in existing Lotus Notes installations. Using a proprietary schema, based on the XML standard, it will then transpose those process flows and dependencies to a hosted platform, such as Amazon, Azure or Google.
The CIMtrek tool will start by discovering what Notes users are actually using the tool for in the enterprise, then go through an analysis and categorisation phase before enabling migration to another platform. It is able to take the key ingredients of an existing IBM Lotus Notes installation and ‘squirt’ that in an XML-like format to another platform that is hosted.
Has anyone tried this tool yet? Discuss.. Nice Wordpress design though.
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On Thursday, October 14th, 2010 by Chris Miller
