2. VisiMigrate – Lotus Notes to SharePoint Migration
Work Management Features
VisiMigrate Lite provides simplified work management features where the users only have to select the content to
be migrated and in the process can even filter for documents/data to be migrated and VisiMigrate does the rest.
• Lotus Notes Content Selection
o Allows the user to migrate all Lotus Notes database contents or to filter for documents/data selection
o SharePoint site templates selection
o Users can override the automatically selected SharePoint template for selected Lotus Notes database
o Job Monitoring
o Web‐based progress and error reporting
o Automatic restart and recovery
o In case that migration job fails, VisiMigrate can perform automated error recovery and resume the data
transfer to seamlessly complete the migration process.
VisiMigrate Enterprise
VisiMigrate Enterprise extends the basic Lotus Notes to SharePoint content migration functions offered by
VisiMigrate Lite to include features that require granular control over the data and documents migration process.
VisiMigrate Enterprise contains a suite of tools that can be used individually by IT professionals to accomplish and
atomic task such as extracting user security information from the Lotus Notes platform, or strung together using a
script to automate the steps required for migration.
Architecture
VisiMigrate Enterprise tools/components are completely installed in the customer’s environment using automated
setup. These tools can then be utilized by the IT professionals to define and run content migration jobs in their
environment.
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3. VisiMigrate – Lotus Notes to SharePoint Migration
VisiMigrate Enterprise features
In addition to Lotus Notes documents and data, the enterprise edition also supports content migration from
standard Windows based file servers and network shares. Migration of security information from theses document
shares is also supported.
• Supported Content Types
o Standard Notes Templates
o Document Libraries
o Discussions
o Task Lists
o Memo
Customized Notes Databases
One of the vexing issues with migration Lotus Notes content to the SharePoint environment is the existence of
customized Lotus Notes databases that either do not use standard Lotus Notes database templates or considerably
extend their functionality. Such Lotus Notes applications range from small departmental applications that interface
with Enterprise transaction systems to organization wide utility applications. Most of these applications are built
using the initial version of Lotus Notes and employ legacy technology that is not Internet enabled and often do not
make use of the workflow concept.
With the advent of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007),
the SharePoint Designer tool and the .Net based extensible architecture of SharePoint lends itself to developing
user friendly, web‐based and workflow enabled applications that can take advantage of the Microsoft toolsets to
integrate these applications with the Enterprise transaction systems.
VisiMigrate provides extensive data selection and migration features that allow the users to create and extend
SharePoint Lists that will house the transactional data migrated from Lotus Notes and also allows the users to
select from available SharePoint form templates so that the user interface components also get migrated to the
SharePoint platform.
Some custom applications require that customized business logic and rich GUI controls to properly offer a usable
screen interface to the users. Visionet provides cost effective SharePoint forms customization services to
accommodate migration of such complex Lotus Notes applications. Visionet has successfully utilized HTML 2.0
features such as AJAX to offer contemporary user interface for legacy Lotus Notes applications that use the full
power of native SharePoint applications and contain legacy business logic resulting in easier and cost effective
platform migration.
VisiMigrate offers two useful features to ease conversion of the customized Lotus Notes applications to fully
functional SharePoint based web‐applications. The features are:
Customized Notes forms transformation
VisiMigrate extracts the Lotus Notes form layout in terms of field positions, color, font, background settings etc. an
d transforms that to a custom template for the Microsoft SharePoint environment. Form templates in SharePoint
are XML based and can be linked to SharePoint lists so that when SharePoint renders list manipulation forms it
uses the customized template rather than the standard ones
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