Hi Ashley,
I saw your posting and wanted to let you know that our company (Cool Stuff for Lotus Notes) has a product that may be exactly what you are looking for: Migration Pro for 6. (BTW: Alan Lepofsky saw an early version of the product last year at IBM developerWorks in San Francisco - perhaps Alan could chime in with his impressions of the product <nudge, nudge>).
Migration Pro is for organizations exactly like yours. In fact, if you check the customer list you'll see that there's already another pharmaceutical company listed. Its being used by organizations like Dupont, The United Nations, Gillette, EDS, Heineken, CSC, Neiman Marcus and Sony Entertainment to plan and track their Notes/Domino 6 upgrades.
We've got a presentation that you can download that gives you some of the most important steps in your Notes 6 upgrade. You can find it online at http://www.coolnotesstuff.com/cns/homepage.nsf/UserGroup?OpenPage.
Migration Pro is a Notes 5.0 database that helps organizations plan for and execute their migration to the Notes & Domino 6. It’s a collection of processes, procedures, checklists, databases and ‘best practices’ designed to help your client's organization have the most cost-effective migration possible to Notes/Domino 6.
Some of the material in Migration Pro for 6 includes:
| A collection of MS-Project plans with over 200 tasks required to perform even complex migrations | |
| 14 critical steps that should be performed in the existing 4.x or 5.x Domino environment prior to beginning the migration | |
| Instructions for creating a separate test/development domain based on Notes/Domino 6 | |
| Links to IBM redbooks relevant to Notes/Domino 6 and other reference materials that are available from Lotus and Internet vendors to assist with infrastructure migration | |
| A detailed server-migration process with detailed procedural checklists | |
| Complete step-by-step procedures for migrating end-user workstations from Lotus Notes version 4 to Lotus Notes 6 | |
| Complete instructions for installing both Notes R5 and Notes 6 on the same workstation for testing, developing and training | |
| SMTPMTA and end-user mail file migration processes | |
| A list of anticipated improvements in Notes/Domino 6 to help secure funding for the migration project |
The new version (1.02) can even import your organization's Domain catalog and automatically suggest an upgrade strategy for all of your existing Notes & Domino applications! If you're using the Teamstudio Design system (www.teamstudio.com), Migration Pro for 6 can even automate the process of scanning your existing applications for known errors in N/D 6. In a highly validated environment like a pharmaceutical company, this can of course be critical.
Migration Pro for 6 is available immediately and is priced at $995 a site (not per server, not per user, etc.).
Additional information about Migration Pro for 6 (and a free downloadable version!!) can be found on our website at http://www.CoolNotesStuff.com. If you have any additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact me directly.
Thanks, good luck with your migration and let me know if there's anything that I can do to help you.
Richard
Richard Echeandia
Cool Stuff for Lotus Notes, Inc.
Work: 214-395-5219
email: richard_echeandia@coolnotesstuff.com
"Who's using Migration Pro for 6? Dupont, CSC, Neiman Marcus, The United Nations, Gillette, EDS, Heineken, the Federal Reserve Board, Sony Entertainment, the US GSA, the US INS, the State of Florida Dept of Transportation,and many, many more."
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