Composer for Lotus Notes

Comprehensive enablement of all critical Lotus Notes applications to the Microsoft Office System.

Composer is a software + services engagement for enabling the adoption of Microsoft platforms to include ASP.NET and SharePoint by recomposing complex and template Lotus Notes applications. By recomposing the Notes applications, mainstream end user adoption of the Microsoft platform(s) is ensured by preserving the user interface (UI) and application behavior (business logic/workflow) to avoid disruption in the end user community. The recomposed Notes application may be optimized to better serve the evolving business requirements by leveraging Web services and the newly adopted Microsoft platform to implement new application functionality that directly benefits the business.

Only Unify provides this comprehensive solution, using software and services, for migrating complex, workflow-centric Notes applications in addition to the less intricate, yet pervasive, Lotus Notes template-based applications.

Benefits

Minimal Disruption – Composer delivers a like-for-like, production-to-production application that represents little to no changes for end users, minimized retraining and immediate end user adoption.

Rapid Platform Adoption – Composer enables enterprises to quickly adopt core applications on the modernized Microsoft platform, expediting the cost justification (ROA and ROI) metrics. By enabling the rapid adoption of the Microsoft platform, organizations are able to accelerate the payback period resulting in an increase to the Internal Rate of Return (IRR).

Leverage, Extend & Optimize – Composer leverages past development investments to deliver a risk-free, production-ready application. By first adopting the new Microsoft platform, organizations are able to become familiar with the capabilities afforded them from the new platform and leverage those new features to extend and optimize the recomposed Notes application to better serve evolving business requirements. Unify’s Composer service engagement includes a comprehensive Assessment, Migration, and Optimization process.

With Composer, Lotus Notes applications are decomposed and re-assembled:

Data from the Lotus Notes application is migrated into a normalized SQL Server database
Business logic is restructured as C# Web Services in Visual Studio
User Interface is transformed into SharePoint Lists, Web Parts and ASP.NET applications
ACL security is mapped into the Microsoft Active Directory Services

For information on the Composer Practice, contact Unify at composer@unify.com or call 800-248-6439.