SharePoint & Lotus

With the economy picking-up, the majority of Notes enterprises are finally upgrading to Notes 8.0.2 or Notes 8.5 and, at the same time, rolling-out SharePoint to their enterprise users to improve collaboration. While these changes are a refreshing and welcomed upgrade for the IT professional; for the average enterprise user, they are a disruptive and scary change. Notes 8 introduces a totally different user interface, and SharePoint requires users to change their daily behaviour.  So how can central IT promote and execute this roll-out ?
 

During today’s meeting, Mainsoft CEO Yaacov Cohen addressed common use cases for integrating SharePoint and Lotus Notes, including remote document authoring and sharing; complying with regulations and statutes; and saving email storage costs.

As Susan and I continue our journey throughout Germany and England, with two Lotusphere events and multiple customer visits, we keep learning more about large Notes users and how they cope with the economic storm. The good news is that people get really creative when they have no choice!

In a recent post on this blog, Jonas shared with us his team's latest progress on SharePoint calendar federation in Notes. Here is a real use case:
 
I have been working on our next sales meeting agenda, which takes place next week. I created  a meeting workspace for our sales meeting on our SharePoint site, added a calendar web part and created all the calendar events. Naturally, I want to enable our team members to be able to see the sales meeting calendar from their Notes client calendar.