Your admin is retiring, the applications look 'old' and someone is offering to rewrite everything on a new platform. Before you decide, see what your options are — and what to ask.
In most companies we visit, the most expensive option is also the only one anyone has offered them.
Keep the applications, give users a new interface.
We keep the logic and data that took years to get right and replace what users dislike — forms, navigation, browser and mobile access. No data migration, no retraining on a different system.
The platform does more than you use it for.
Most companies use Domino for mail and a few databases. Yet the same platform today runs production across three sites, SAP and warehouse integrations, offline mobile apps and AI over company documents — without the cloud.
When your only 'Domino person' is leaving.
We take over the server and applications as they are. First we map what runs where and what depends on it, then we set up monitoring, backups and updates. You get one phone number that works.
A rewrite quote usually counts only the price of the new system. These questions show what it leaves out.
Usually more than anyone remembers. Approvals, registers, code lists, reports — each one has to be specified, built and tested again in a rewrite.
The logic often lives only in the application and in one person's head. If that person is leaving, documenting it first is cheaper than rewriting it from memory elsewhere.
Twenty years of records, attachments and approvals. Are they migrated, or left in an 'archive' nobody can open a year later?
Per-user licences, cloud fees, vendor lock-in. With Domino you pay for what you already have, and applications are not rewritten at upgrade time.
A manufacturer with sensitive documentation should decide whether a third-party cloud suits it. Domino runs on your server — and so does the AI over your data.
The same question you are asking about Notes today. The difference is that for Notes we know the answer — we will.
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Database names and who uses them is enough. We'll tell you what is worth modernising, what is worth extending and what to leave alone.