Migrating Notes apps to SharePoint

September 30, 2009:Visionet has announced the next generation of its Lotus Notes-to-Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS) application migration tool, VisiMigrate.

Earlier versions of VisiMigrate focused on groupware content migration from Lotus Notes databases and applications to the Microsoft SharePoint platform (MOSS). The VisiMigrate Version 2.0 toolset goes beyond content and data migration to tackle the challenge of transforming Lotus Notes applications into SharePoint based web-applications.

VisiMigrate works by creating custom SharePoint form templates that mirror existing Lotus Notes form layouts and translating Lotus Script and formula based business logic into Microsoft .Net code snippets. Then it packages the forms and translated code into a Microsoft Visual Studio project that the developers can use to quickly complete the application conversion process.

Integral to this new version of the software is the companion assessment application. This added feature creates an inventory of all Lotus Notes applications and analyzes their contents to produce a conversion roadmap that identifies the portions of the application that can be readily transformed into SharePoint forms and Microsoft .Net code. It also estimates the manual effort required to completely modernize the Lotus Notes application into a web-based SharePoint application.