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• Lotus® Notes® User Activity Monitoring for Compliance and Security Analysis
  Security and compliance concerns are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s IT environment, and the ability for Lotus® Notes® and Domino® administrators to gather information and analyze application usage and activity statistics is becoming mission-critical in many shops. As a result, many administrators are feeling the pressure to look for more effective ways to pinpoint specific issues in their environments that are causing their managers anxiety and apprehension.
• Lotus® Notes® Agent Considerations for Disaster Recovery
  As programs that run inside Lotus Notes databases or applications, agents are the backbone of critical business processes, and special provisions for agents must be included in a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
• Migrating to Microsoft from Lotus Notes? Not so Fast!
  The Application Analyzer for Lotus Domino is a product developed by Microsoft to analyze and report on Notes applications and the ease and priority with which they should be migrated to Microsoft SharePoint. Microsoft's Application Transporter for Lotus Domino allows organizations to migrate data from IBM Lotus Notes applications to Sharepoint Services (WSS) lists. These products have been aggressively marketed along with Microsoft incentives for migrating from Notes to SharePoint. This whitepaper examines how accurately these tools portray the explicit and implicit costs associated with such a migration.
• Restructuring Your Lotus Notes Application Environment Moving Forward with Clarity and Efficiency
  Structural changes in the business have severe after effects on your Lotus Notes infrastructure. Many high level business strategies can result in serious problems for Notes infrastructure managers. In this paper, we outline the key technical issues unique to Lotus Notes environments that make these projects so challenging and highlight the real world problems that result. Recommendations are offered as to how these issues can be addressed with parameters for an ideal data set that allow IT professionals to progress these projects with certainty and efficiency.
• Reducing SOX Compliance Costs
  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 brought the most dramatic change to USA federal securities laws since the 1930s. Its impact on IT is enormous—requiring documentation and controls, not only of financial data, but also of the software that processes the data.
• Automating Routine Development Tasks Reduces the Risk of Human Error for Improved Application Quality
  The software industry loves to automate tasks. Technology delivers great value when it is able to take routine tasks and automate them e.g. human error is minimized, boring tasks are reduced, precious developer time is freed up, deadlines become easier to achieve and overall software quality increases.
• Better Manage Your Application Assets Using Process Controls
  As part of the increasing scrutiny levied on companies through federal compliance regulations, governments are enforcing strict policies for the tracking, retaining, accessing, and securing of enterprise data. In this tightly regulated world, IT executives need a firm grip on their software development processes - and fast.
• Best Practices for Applying Process Controls to IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Environments
  To improve application integrity and comply with new government regulations, IT organizations responsible for Notes® installations need to bring their applications within the scope of software management and best practices.
• A Well-Designed Build Process: Experience the Power
  The build process is the most commonly neglected part of Notes® application development. However, the growing complexity of Lotus® Notes applications demands a greater level of formality.
• Software Integrity: Bringing Order to the Notes® Development Process
  Automation of build process control encourages a systematic development process, higher quality applications and ample documentation to satisfy any audit.
• Too Busy Putting Out Fires to Enjoy the Marshmallow Roast? Gain Control of your Notes/Domino Environment Once and for All
  Are you tired of putting out fire after fire in your work as a Notes/Domino administrator? Read our latest white paper on the most common problems admins face-you'll learn that there are solutions you can put into practice that go above and beyond short-term, Band Aid-style fixes.