Reading: Thousands of Lotus Notes applications complicates GSA cloud migration
Tags :GSA Lotus Notes Google Apps migration
This article from Fierce Government IT still baffles me as the GSA had no available data to back how they would save a single dollar, much rather the projected $15M over five years to migrate their Lotus Notes in house email to Google Apps.. To confuse the issue even more they are attempting to move apps and finding duplication as well as struggling to keep the workflow.
Each GSA component has developed its own inventory of Lotus Notes applications for decommissioning or migration to the cloud, and the GSA office of the chief information officer didn't perform an analysis on those applications to look for duplication, says the GSA office of inspector general in a report (.pdf) dated Sept. 28.
So these thousands of databases, many containing workflow, are now not important enough to have catalogued, combined or verified to see what functionality is being lost?
They blamed this on their delay in migrating the email system. The article uses the quote updating but let us be honest and just say migrate. They say in another article linked below they have saved $2M already. Where?
Read the rest of the story on Fierce GovernmentIT
Also see
GSA Cloud Transition questioned in audit report by Federal Computer
GSA stands by cloud migration numbers by Federal Computer
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On Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 by Chris Miller
