Save money with Domino - a great example
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One of our customers uses Domino since years for different things. The mailsystem is still Exchange but Domino didn't died through all the years. Even when some people would have loved seeing Domino passing away I'm working in a project team which builds one of the most profitable applications in this multinational company.
Some weeks ago our team was asked a really interesting question. One of the subsidiaries needed a new intranet. And someone in this company remembered a Domino application which is now 8 years old and was used in former years for a similar reason. And we were asked if this application is still available and if it can be run on the existing Domino 8.5 infrastuctur? Our answer was clear and easy: Yes and yes!
So the customer decided to stop efforts of evaluating new plattforms and other applications and build a protoype of a possible new intranet. There were some design refreshes and some other changes needed to let the old R5 application shine in a new light. But all the renovations were made by a non-developer. It was just reconfiguring the application with colors, fonts and images. For sure we're not talking about a web 2.0 stylish intranet. But we're talking about a application which made it's way from a prototype to the intranet application of one of the DAX companies with thousands of users. Since two weeks the new old application is live. We do have some issues with the full text search (maybe there will be a blog entry about it later) but nothing unsolvable.
The most interesting aspect of this story in my opinion is, that this new intranet was build without spending hundreds of thousands of Euros. The application was there, the Domino infrastructure was there (for sure, our needs for disk space, backup etc. will be higher, but at the moment no new hardware is needed) only the design refresh and some functional changes were needed. No project team, no new hardware, no new licenses, nothing. In times where everyone is talking about savings and crisis one of the most cost savings applications I've ever worked with.
One of our customers uses Domino since years for different things. The mailsystem is still Exchange but Domino didn't died through all the years. Even when some people would have loved seeing Domino passing away I'm working in a project team which builds one of the most profitable applications in this multinational company.
Some weeks ago our team was asked a really interesting question. One of the subsidiaries needed a new intranet. And someone in this company remembered a Domino application which is now 8 years old and was used in former years for a similar reason. And we were asked if this application is still available and if it can be run on the existing Domino 8.5 infrastuctur? Our answer was clear and easy: Yes and yes!
So the customer decided to stop efforts of evaluating new plattforms and other applications and build a protoype of a possible new intranet. There were some design refreshes and some other changes needed to let the old R5 application shine in a new light. But all the renovations were made by a non-developer. It was just reconfiguring the application with colors, fonts and images. For sure we're not talking about a web 2.0 stylish intranet. But we're talking about a application which made it's way from a prototype to the intranet application of one of the DAX companies with thousands of users. Since two weeks the new old application is live. We do have some issues with the full text search (maybe there will be a blog entry about it later) but nothing unsolvable.
The most interesting aspect of this story in my opinion is, that this new intranet was build without spending hundreds of thousands of Euros. The application was there, the Domino infrastructure was there (for sure, our needs for disk space, backup etc. will be higher, but at the moment no new hardware is needed) only the design refresh and some functional changes were needed. No project team, no new hardware, no new licenses, nothing. In times where everyone is talking about savings and crisis one of the most cost savings applications I've ever worked with.
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