Migrating from Lotus Notes to Oracle CloudLARS from Document2Relation Solution Brief

It’s time to modernise your workflow applications: quickly and cost-effectively

Why are customers moving away from Lotus Notes?IBM sold its Notes application platform to HCL in 2018. Since then, HCL has prepared to release a significant update to the platform. While this update promises new features and upgrades, it could also lead to significant disruption.

For organisations that rely on Lotus Notes to run key workflow applications, there are two choices:

1. Re-engineer applications to run in the new version of Notes

2. Migrate from Notes to a brand-new platform

While sticking with Lotus Notes may seem like the safer choice, it opens up risks of paying increased license costs – and having to repeat the process over again the next time HCL launches a major update.

However, moving to a new platform is never something to be taken lightly. Even the smallest migration can bring significant risks, costs and effort. That’s exactly what our migration service helps you avoid. It puts you in control, letting you choose exactly which applications to move, which to archive, and which to leave alone.

With a simpler, faster, more cost-effective way to migrate Lotus Notes applications, you can get the benefits of a new cloud platform and say goodbye to legacy licensing and support fees for good.

Move to a modern cloud platformBy working closely with partners Document2Relation (D2R) and sumIT, Oracle can offer you an easier way to move legacy Lotus Notes applications to a modern development environment powered by Oracle Database Cloud and APEX.

First, we migrate your application data into a generic data model. At this point, all data including

rich text within the Notes application is accessible through APEX viewer. Your important data is archived to Oracle Database Cloud.

If you want to recreate the application you can use the generic data model with APEX to do so. You can easily integrate it with other services and make the most of Oracle Cloud infrastructure.

Step 1Extract your data and transform it to the same generic data model for each application

Step 3 Rebuild and modernise your well-loved applications and workflow processes

Migrate applications & data with Lotus Notes Application Replacement System (LARS)

LARS frees your data from legacy Lotus Notes data sets

Step 2 Once complete Oracle’s APEX Viewer allows you to drill in to long-hidden data for all your applications from your web browser or mobile device

APEX

The benefits of a modern cloud platformBy moving to Oracle Cloud, you benefit from a platform that’s:

Future Proof – Separate data from business logic and UI components to address future demands with no constraints

Lossless – Retain the full contextual fidelity of Lotus Notes applications

Low-risk – Reduce operational and financial risks by only paying for what you use

Compliant – Safely archive sensitive data and simplify compliance

Fast – Migrate in just a few weeks

Cost-effective – End Lotus Notes support costs for good

Flexible – Dynamically scale up or down, integrate, and extend as needed.

Modern – With mobile device support by default

Open – Oracle cloud is built on open tools, components and technologies

Your migration, your choiceCrucially, our migration service requires no major lift-and-shift approach. You can move as many or as few applications as you want, putting you firmly in control of your migration costs and timelines.

And when it comes to timelines, we can offer a rapid migration of your most crucial Notes applications. In just three days we can turn your application into a portable data model ready for archiving. And in another ten days, it can be transformed into a new application that’s ready to make the most of a modern cloud platform – and even be extended and upgraded in the future.

Whether you archive or recreate your applications, you get the full benefits of Oracle’s leading cloud infrastructure, including:

• An expandable platform built on future-proofed technologies

• Systems designed for mobile devices from the ground up

• A pay-as-you-use approach that helps reduce your costs

• Rock-solid security and simpler compliance

Why Oracle, D2R and sumIT?Migration is no trivial matter. That’s why you want the very best partners to help you move crucial applications. That’s exactly what D2R and sumIT offer. Both have extensive experience moving Lotus Notes applications to Oracle Cloud infrastructure – ensuring you get the fastest, smoothest and most cost-effective migration possible. 

You also need to make sure your new target platform supports all the features your applications need – both now and into the future. That’s where Oracle comes in. Oracle Cloud offers a secure, scalable, reliable cloud platform that can help you seamlessly scale resources up and down and expand applications as your business needs change.

See a seamless migration in actionTo learn more about our migration services, and to see just how simple, quick and low-risk it can be, take a look at our migration demo or contact Matthias Hochstrasser or Peter Zeder at contact@document2relation.ch

Set up the Oracle Cloud environment then start your migration.

Generic data model built out. Archived data viewable with APEX viewer.

Application re-built on APEX.

Integrate with other services/move on to

the next app. 3 Days

10 Days