Migration Of Lotus To Microsoft
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The document discusses the reasons for migrating from IBM Lotus to Microsoft, highlighting cost reductions in licensing and maintenance, user requests for Microsoft tools, and the available applications. It compares the total cost of ownership for both platforms, noting that while Lotus offers lower licensing costs, Microsoft has a more extensive array of applications and user demand. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of maintaining an open standard and the benefits of web 2.0 functionality provided by IBM Lotus over Microsoft SharePoint.
Migration Of Lotus To Microsoft
- 1. Migrating Lotus to Microsoft Learned lessons
- 2. The reasons voor migration Reasons for migrating Lotus 2 Microsoft: ICT cost reduction Licence cost Consolidation Maintenance cost Policy There a more sharepoint then lotus apps available User Request Users wants Microsoft tools Users want WEB2.0 functionality Or not really?
- 3. Licence costs IBM | Lotus Lotus Collaboration: 112,= Lotus Mail: 81,14 euro Spreadsheet, Documents, Presentations: Free (0 euro) Microsoft Office Standard 2007 (Word,excel,Powerpoint, Outlook) 499,= euro Outlook 169,= euro Infopath 249,=euro Sharepoint 75,= euro This is only a indication of licence cost for one end-user Comparing mail only functionality (81,14 169,=): IBM saves you 87,86 euro Comparing total desktop environment (office + collaboration) (112,= 499,=+249,=+ 75,=) IBM saves you more then 700 euro per user. Hmm, Migrating Microsoft to Lotus save you a lot of money
- 4. Consolidation IBM | Lotus Microsoft Lotus Domino server can be installed on different OS & Hardware(iSeries, Linux, Intel) which enables companies to have multiple servers on to one server box. Lotus Notes client can be installed on different desktop OS (windows, mac, linux) which enables users to choose there OS of choice. Microsoft can be installed only on Microsoft Windows Fact: IBM delivers platform of choice, which may save a lot of HW & energy costs
- 5. Maintenance costs IBM | Lotus Many report say the TCO of Lotus is lower when compared to Microsoft Microsoft Many report say the TCO of Microsoft is lower when compared to Lotus. Which one to believe? Each report takes different views on the same truth. What do you think? Is it cheaper to maintain: exchange, infopath server (+forms), Sharepoint (+apps) + .Net custom apps + IIS server + off-the-shelve products or is it cheaper to maintain a Domino server (+apps) Domino delivers HTTP, forms, collaboration, custom apps, off-the-shelve apps, etc. Advice: Use your own common sense on IT Maintenance costs within your organisation
- 6. Policy Some companies have strong policies: ‘ We have a SAP unless policy’ ‘ We have a Microsoft unless policy’ Policies are important for management However, every company has the policy: (direct) IT Cost savings Improve productivity of work force With IBM | Lotus you save direct on licence cost and probably on IT maintenance cost Oeps, we forgot to have a IBM unless policy
- 7. Out-of-the-box Applications IBM | Lotus Lotus delivers a few (~3) usables apps with Lotus Domino There are more then 250 open source apps available Microsoft SharePoint delivers about 40 apps. Open source apps are not found… Lotus don’t deliver many application with the product. There is a strong user community which are willing to share applications. An example is www.openNTF.org were a lot of open source apps for Lotus can be found. Fact: There a many Lotus applications available, free of charge
- 8. User requests Users wants Microsoft tools Users want WEB2.0 functionality
- 9. Users want Microsoft! IBM | Lotus Users sometimes hates Notes; this is usually based on old Notes clients which are not upgraded with current releases Notes offer a web interface for both mail and apps (which can be based on web2.0 technics) Microsoft More and more users are using multiple (web) mail accounts like gmail, hotmail, etc. Users are familiar with other mail apps Many users don’t want Microsoft (ie Explorer) and are turning to other tooling (like firefox) So users are using a lot of non-microsoft tooling. Also on home PC’s open office, and even linux have a climbing usage number Users don’t ‘want’ Microsoft. Users want to work efficiently with tooling which integrate in other applications
- 10. Users want WEB2.0 functionality IBM | Lotus Lotus Connections outstands Microsoft Sharepoint by far on the social business aspect. Both Microsoft and markt analytics agree on this. Lotus Notes integrates (via widgets) with twitter, linkedIN, etc. Chat client is free within Notes Microsoft Support different browsers; Open standard support are difficulties on the Microsoft side. Outlook users don’t have a free ability to use simple chat for quick conversations WEB 2.0 functionality (wiki, blog, profile pages, social networks, etc.) is delivered by IBM, which outstand the Microsoft proposition on this. IBM supports open standard Microsoft tries to be a standard on its own IBM products can be easily integrated with extended enterprise tooling like linkedIN, Facebook, twitter, etc. Lotus enables organisations to make use of new (WEB 2.0) productivity tools within the organisation