Questions regarding Domino 6 and Lotus Notes

Hello everyone.

I wanted to get some feedback regarding using Domino and Lotus notes for our company setup.

Currently, our company contains 40 people, but that number will reach 100 in a little over a year. With that in mind, we are looking for a solution that will provide a lot of flexability, robustness, scalability and overall efficiency in helping the company and our users, in all categories.

Currently, we have setup a Domino 6 server and setup 6 people with Lotus Notes Clients. It’s a private setup, but it is working very well and looking at all the features the system offers, I feel im just scratching the surface.

Enough rambling. :slight_smile:

I’m trying to convince my manager that using Domino and Lotus notes for our Company is the way to go. I like all of the options that it offers, but the part that will be the test is selling it to my Manager.

I was hoping to get some feedback on users here who currently use this for their company, and why Lotus Domino is by far the better way to go.

Here is what our plan is.

-We are going to have one Corporate Office, the hub for the company.

-We are going to open up multiple branch offices in the next couple of years.

-Number of employees could reach 150 (in few years)

Now, i’d like to setup something with Domino at the corporate office as the ‘main server’. At the branch offices, I could set up some sort of backend or front end server that can store email there as well, if needed.

Can domino and lotus do this efficiently?

I apologize for the rant, but im trying to grab all the information that I can so I can sell this product and get started on this.

I appreciate the help and look forward to everyones feedback.

Cheers,

Jason

Subject: Questions regarding Domino 6 and Lotus Notes

Jason,

Your company is a perfect fit for the Domino Collaboration Express offering, which offers extermely attractive pricing with a large return on investment.

We work with the SMB market in this space and would be glad to be of assistance to you in evaluating what solution may or may not be best for your needs.

Best regards,

Christopher Byrne, IBM CAAD/CASA

The Cayuga Group, LLC

An Advanced IBM Business Partner

http://www.thecayugagroup.com

info@thecayugagroup.com

Subject: Questions regarding Domino 6 and Lotus Notes

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Subject: RE: Questions regarding Domino 6 and Lotus Notes

Thanks guys for your input. I appreciate it. I’m hoping to roll this out for our company as I see it would be extremely helpful for us.

Thanks,

Jason

Subject: Questions regarding Domino 6 and Lotus Notes

Notes/Domino is good at distributed processing (between servers in different locations, even local replicas on laptops which may be disconnected from the LAN at times). If you have medium/low bandwidth between locations, you will want local servers at your main offices.

It is easy to set up small, high impact apps.

It is very secure (compare to MS Lookout Express! aka VirusExpress).

There are clustering for failover, redundancy, and scalability.

Notes/Domino is standards based and integrates with other apps/databases. There are many software vendors who provide off-the-shelf apps.