Good-bye Lotus, hello cloud direct from Salesforce
Tags :LotusLive cloud hosting applications Salesforce
This is the exact heading from Salesforce in an email I received. I thought Salesforce was a partner with Lotus and integrator with such things like LotusLive? Their advert states:
Thousands of companies struggle to integrate and administer their Lotus Notes apps every day. Now—faced with a costly forced upgrade—many are moving to the cloud with Force.com
I, ahem, filled out the form required to access some of the information they provide including two free hours of assessment, an online savings calculator and free online training.
I went through the calculator for a knowledge base type app in IT Management. Savings were an amazing 50% + average. However, I am using a standard template right out of the Lotus install. No development, no maintenance, no nothing but people entering documents.
All of them were the same. For some reason they feel moving it online, spending the time and effort to redo the entire application and migrate tens of thousands of documents was simpler? Cost effective? I don't buy any of that nor do I buy the TCO stats on the next tab.
So Salesforce is now going directly after Lotus applications and migrating people off of the system.
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On Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 by Chris Miller
