If you still use Lotus Notes, then I think you will find you are a dying breed. Recent research has found that 1.75 million businesses have already made the move to using Google Apps.
Like Microsoft’s desktop office suite, Lotus Notes has been used for many years. However, unfortunately, while many business and other users have enjoyed the simplicity of the software, the company behind it has not really kept up to date by switching to using a cloud computing system. As such, the product is fast becoming obsolete.
What’s more, many people – employees in particular – who use Lotus Notes in work tend now to use Google products at home. Consequently, switching to Google is not a problem for most.
Lotus Notes also has one major drawback. As it is still a desktop office program it will require constant updating, which can invariably cost a business a lot of money. In an economic climate where costs are being looked at regularly, employing in-house tools is no longer economically viable. Outsourcing is now more cost effective.
Furthermore, as Google is a cloud-based technology, companies can more easily share files with other employees and staff over the internet. Of course, many businesses do possess intranet facilities, but here again this type of system still requires maintenance, which is probably costly.
All in all, switching from Lotus Notes to Google is probably a wise move in this increasingly competitive world.
I read this article and sadly there are so many errors in it – I won’t even begin to try to impact the thinking of the uninformed writers with more words … but bottom line you CANNOT compare Lotus Notes/Domino with anything out there because it has no equal. IBM offers similar cloud delivered solutions as well.. but there is seriously nothing that does all that Notes/Domino does.
When the writers really LEARN Notes and maybe re-write a more fair and unbiased article..then I will make more points on the superiority of a solution my company uses which is core to everything we do including hundreds of business critical applications.. but I feel I am wasting my time trying to educate a biased writer.
“If you still use Lotus Notes, then I think you will find you are a dying breed. Recent research has found that 1.75 million businesses have already made the move to using Google Apps.”
Is the author(s) eluding that 1.75 million businesses who used Lotus Notes are now on Google Apps? The only reference similar to this I can find is that Google Apps has 1.75 million customers…probably more as this article is 3 years old. So are all these customers former Lotus Notes customers? I’d seriously doubt it. So how are businesses using Lotus Notes a dying breed?
“Like Microsoft’s desktop office suite, Lotus Notes has been used for many years. However, unfortunately, while many business and other users have enjoyed the simplicity of the software, the company behind it has not really kept up to date by switching to using a cloud computing system. As such, the product is fast becoming obsolete.”
The company behind Lotus Notes is IBM, who’ve offered a cloud-based option since 2009 called LotusLive and since have rebranded it IBM SmartCloud for Social Business and further expanded their offerings this year.
“What’s more, many people – employees in particular – who use Lotus Notes in work tend now to use Google products at home.”
Is the author(s) eluding you can’t use Lotus Notes at home? If so, that’s entirely untrue. Or is the author(s) eluding you can’t use both? If so, again untrue.
“Lotus Notes also has one major drawback. As it is still a desktop office program it will require constant updating, which can invariably cost a business a lot of money. In an economic climate where costs are being looked at regularly, employing in-house tools is no longer economically viable. Outsourcing is now more cost effective.”
There are many options for deploying Lotus-based mail. Lotus Notes is a client program, not a “desktop office program.”
Again, eluding it’s only available in the office. Updating clients are not nearly as complicated as the author(s) imply. If you look at IBM’s free Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade tool, I can literally take a couple of hours to set up an automated upgrade rollout that manages itself. It’s hardly an expensive or time/resource consuming initiative to upgrade software. Also, I can get my Lotus mail on any computer that runs Lotus Notes (home or office), on any device with a supported web browser through iNotes (a web based interface for my Lotus Notes mail), or on mobile devices like iPod/iPad/Android through the no-charge Lotus Notes Traveler solution which integrates my Lotus Notes mail into the native mail clients on said mobile devices.
“Furthermore, as Google is a cloud-based technology, companies can more easily share files with other employees and staff over the internet. Of course, many businesses do possess intranet facilities, but here again this type of system still requires maintenance, which is probably costly.”
I can personally share files via Lotus Notes email, via Sametime file transfer, via IBM Quickr places, via IBM Connections. I can also get to these services via the internet on many different devices, not just a desktop computer. We’ve never had a problem sharing files. And the maintenance is not costly or time/resource intensive. I set up these servers and clients and they just run. Period.
This article is so full of errors that I don’t know where to start. Comparing Lotus Notes/Domino with Google Apps is just wrong. The author of the article has probably no clue what Lotus Notes/Domino is and/or he/she has no clue what Google Apps is.
Anyway… writing such black/white type of article where the author is claiming that the one or other is better is reflecting nothing other than the low experience of the author in the enterprise computing area.
Lotus Notes / Domino is not better than Google Apps!
Google Apps is not better than Lotus Notes / Domino!
Both have their strong and weak points. Claiming the one to be better than the other is silly.
btw: IBM (the company producing Lotus Notes / Domino) has similar things like Google Apps. It is called LotusLive (just use Google search if you need to find more info about it).