Secrets to success migrating off Lotus Notes and EscapeNotes
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Once again, salesforce (yes no caps as their logo shows) hit my inbox with a webinar coming April 4th on migrating off of Lotus Notes. As we have seen this before, I took special interest in the speaker and the claims his website made, EscapeNotes.
So I went on to find the site EscapeNotes. and see what it was all about and the claims it would make. Here we go:
- You can migrate off Notes in DAYS
- An automated tool can do it all
They have a diagram on "How we do it" found on the EscapeNotes site that actrually shows an area of things that cannot be migrated. A XNscore is generated (I have no idea what that is and their demos have no audio). The tool has some pop-ups and then makes a complexity score. It then generates NotesPedia (the encyclopedia of your Notes infrastructure down to the latest detail.
It basically BUILDS NOTES DATABASES to show you the information it pulls from ACL's, catalog, access, templates and more. It then hits an Excel spreadsheet. Why would this not use force.com to hold and make these documents?
I watched a bunch of the demos and step 3 said no knowledge needed of Notes or coding in Force.com. If you watch the demo the is a ton of things you need to do and code.
Moving users forces the Notes workspace icons to launch their web browser to open the application. So there is no migration in that sense. Users just click a web link.
For a product moving you off Notes they sure use the term Notes a lot.
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On Monday, March 28th, 2011 by Chris Miller
