Lotus Notes/Domino – Websphere Portal Integration

Migration to Websphere, Portlets

Notes, Domino Offshore/Outsourcing – Websphere Portal Enablement

IBM’s new Workplace technology presents new opportunites, threats for existing Lotus investments. IBM is highly commited to enable a smooth migration between different technologies from its stable and has clearly articulated that customers would not have to go for rip and replace. The Workplace suite of products bring the benefits of open standards of J2EE and Java technologies, increased investment in innovative features by IBM, availability of third party components and solutions that can plug and play with Workplace, vertically specialized releases that bring industry best practices to your organization and more. Should you consider moving some of your Notes/Domino applications to Workplace? Which applications are ideal candidates for pilot projects? How best do you manage transitioning applications from a licensing perspective? How would you support a mix of Workplace and Notes/Domino custom applications at the server and client ends?

If you have these questions, get talking to Maarga. We offer specialized conversion services to enable organizations to incorporate Workplace into their infrastructure smoothly and plan for peaceful co-existence between Notes/Domino and Workplace applications. We will work with you to explore all the issues involved with migration to Workplace and co-existence of Notes/Domino and Workplace applications:

  • User, Directory Management and integrating directories of multiple infrastructures
  • Best approach to transitioning applications to Workplace – using tools/utilities from IBM/Third parties, creating wrapper applications in Workplace for Notes data, phased approach to application transition taking into account soon-to-be released technologies from IBM like the Notes plug-in for Workplace client
  • Gradual transition of core LotusScript libraries to Java to enable smoother transition to Workplace at a future date.
  • Exploring options provided by Workplace for multi-platform clients, including clients on Linux
  • Portalization of Domino Applications
  • Moving core code base to shared workplace libraries
  • Single-sign on consideration for applications etc.

Lotus Workplace has the following primary offerings for enterprises:

  • Lotus Workplace Messaging brings down the price levels on providing enterprise scale email to deskless workers, and organizations adopting this with an existing Notes/Domino infrastructure will need to consider managing the common user directories, making available limited Domino functionality to Workplace users by web-enabling existing Domino Applications etc.
  • Lotus Workplace Team Collaboration brings the rich capabilities of Lotus collaboration to web based users and users of thick clients under platforms like Linux.
  • Lotus Workplace Web Content Management 1.1 adds an integrated way to share the creation and management of Web content within the Lotus Workplace secure, roles-based environment.
  • Lotus Workplace Collaborative Learning 1.1 is the next release of IBM Lotus Learning Management System (which is the J2EE version of Lotus LearningSpace). It supports the management of both an organization’s classroom -based and e-learning programs, resources, and course materials.

Some of the ways in which Lotus Domino applications can work together with Workplace include:

  • Out-of-the-box Domino portlets
  • Portlet Builder for Domino
  • XML access to Domino view data
  • Lotus Collaboration components in WebSphere Portal Extend
  • Domino JSP tags
  • Domino Java API
  • Partner products like Bowstreet’s Portlet Factory
  • Domino Web Application Portlet

We can work with you to identify the best path forward for you – be it going along with Notes/Domino, a mix of Workplace and Notes/Domino or adopting the Workplace technology all the way.