Lotus Notes News & Articles

Earlier this month we talked about how Mainsoft (news, site) was helping integrate SharePoint and IBM Rational Team Concert, providing SharePoint collaboration capabilities inside the Team Concert world. Good stuff for project teams.

But what about organizations who live inside their Lotus Notes environments? They also need some SharePoint love. And Mainsoft is providing it to them as well with the latest version of their Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes.

What's new in Version 2? Come have a look.

We know it's true that Microsoft leads the way on office productivity with MS Office and Outlook/Exchange. But we also know that Lotus Notes still has a solid market share for e-mail as well. And it wouldn't be a stretch to believe that even organizations with Lotus Notes also have at least one SharePoint implementation.

All good news for Mainsoft as they release the latest version of their SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes.

Oracle comes to rescue the Enterprise 2.0 corporate bees with its new solution dubbed Beehive that aims to allow employees to collaborate through electronic workspaces, calendar, IM, e-mail, voice mail and conferencing applications.

All of that is done in the name of collaboration and the ability to easily share and simultaneously work on documents, e-mails and multimedia files.

Mainsoft likes to integrate SharePoint and IBM Products. They’ve done it with IBM’s WebSphere Portal and with Lotus Notes. Today they are announcing that the Lotus Integration is going a few steps further covering more versions of the popular email client and Lotus Sametime.

AvePoint, a provider of data protection and management solutions for SharePoint, has released DocAve 5.0, the newest version of its flagship MOSS infrastructure management software platform.

The company boasts “groundbreaking new functionalities” in the release that was primarily focused around the enhanced user interface, brand new modules and “intelligent” SharePoint backup and recovery.

Open Text is expanding its ECM portfolio by announcing a new solution for e-mail management targeted at law firms.

The solution — Open Text E-mail Lifecycle Management for Law Firms — combines such features as e-mail filing and archiving and aims to help firms to define, secure and control the e-mail management and retention processes according to compliance mandates and internal policies.

Ziff Davis is holding a free eSeminar on July 15, 2008 to show you how you can integrate your SharePoint platform with Lotus Notes. It’s called: IBM Lotus Notes - Microsoft SharePoint Co-Existence Strategy.

Not all vendors out there believe that you should be able to move back and forth between Lotus Notes and SharePoint. AvePoint, provider of SharePoint infrastructure and administration management solutions, continually brings to market migration tools to move content from another product to SharePoint. Their latest migration tool is the DocAve Lotus Notes Migrator.

Seems like it was only yesterday we were talking about IBM introducing a Quickr Content Integrator that will help move organizations away from SharePoint. Oh, right it was yesterday…

Today, we see that IBM may actually be wise enough to tackle the SharePoint challenge from both ends. Another IBM partner is helping to bridge the integration gap with SharePoint. The partner — Mainsoft. The solution — SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. If you are one those organizations that has a mixed technology environment — and you are not alone — this solution will go a long way to help.

Have you made that investment in SharePoint 2007 that you’ve been thinking about for the last year? Or do you already have it and just aren’t sure what to do with it? Independent analyst CMS Watch has just released their latest report entitled: The SharePoint Report 2008: A Comprehensive Evaluation of SharePoint in the Enterprise.

Well known for their independent and objective evaluation of content management and associated technologies, CMS Watch provides us with a review of SharePoint that helps us understand where and how it best fits — or doesn’t — into the enterprise and how if we aren’t careful, SharePoint will become the next Lotus Notes.

You may think they are coming from behind, but if the product demonstrations that occurred at Lotusphere are any indication, IBM is in the fast lane of Web 2.0 tools and technologies and must have been there for while.

From updates to Lotus Notes and Domino, to new versions of Lotus Connections and new products like Lotus Mashups, IBM is approaching Web 2.0 not from a cool technology standpoint – but from a business needs standpoint.

IBM has launched IBM OmniFind Personal Email Search, a free email search plugin for Outlook and Lotus Notes. The product is a graduate of Big Blue’s Research Labs experimental playground, and showcases a number of clever next-gen semantic search capabilities.

Meet Fortis Email Management, a solution that allows simpler Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes archiving. It plays nicely with one or the other, and permits the capture and archive of e-docs to Fortis’ document management software.

Brought to you by Fortis Document Management Software Teams (courtesy of Westbrook), in conjunction with Sherpa Software.

As we have covered recently , content migration is a hot and serious topic for many IT managers. Migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint, a heretofore unfulfilled niche in the market, appears to have been filled by Proposion Software.