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Stuttgart, August 15, 2006: Coextant today announced the release of the Lotus Notes Connector Module v1.0 for Hyper.Net. The new module allows IBM Domino customers to automatically integrate and publish Notes-native content - as well-formed XML content - into any Domino, Microsoft SharePoint /SQL, IBM Websphere Portal/Workplace or SAP Portal web solution.
"When Domino customers move to IBM Websphere or to Microsoft technologies, they often discover that significant volumes of important content are locked in Notes databases in proprietary formats and structures. We released our new Lotus Notes Connector module - already being used at several customers - to meet increasing customer requirements for easy content migration and co-existence in mixed technology environments," stated Paul Caspers, CEO of Coextant Systems International.
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The success and popularity of Lotus Notes has created a dilemma in when it comes to the many rapidly-growing Web and collaboration technologies on the market. Companies and organizations that have large amounts of information stored away in Notes repositories are finding that this important data asset is not so easy to integrate with Document Management, Web Content Management and Portal systems that are not based on Domino. In many cases this information could even be considered "trapped".
The Lotus Notes Connector Module for Hyper.Net lets companies re-use content stored in Notes by publishing it to any intranet, extranet or internet Web site as vendor-neutral Web data. This approach makes it possible not only to leverage new technologies or multiple simultaneous technologies, but to leverage state-of-art functions for personalization, search, library services, categorization, subscriptions and content distribution that are provided with these systems.
The Lotus Notes Connector Module for Hyper.Net can be used in numerous content-related projects, and can function in a co-existence scenario, where Lotus Notes will remain as the authoring environment, or in a migration scenario, where the business is replacing Notes and requires a one-time migration of Lotus Notes documents.
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Co-existence
The Hyper.Net Lotus Notes Connector protects your investment in the Lotus Notes collaborative environment by letting you leverage Hyper.Net to transparently integrate and publish your Notes content into any CMS or Portal technology. Authors continue to create and mange content in the Notes environment. Hyper.Net publishes and deploys the content to content consumers as native XML that can work in any non-Domino environment, for example Websphere Portal. This lets you leverage the full power of Java, Websphere and relational databases for portlet presentation, content aggregation and search. Compare this to the rudimentary web clipping effort and extensive development work required to "portalize" Domino applications, and the benefits become clear.
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Migration
In the move towards relational database technologies, open standards, Java or .Net, many Domino customers are faced with the gargantuan effort of manually migrating content from Notes-based applications into new technologies. Using the Hyper.Net Lotus Notes Connector, exporting Notes content into vendor-neutral XML formats - making the content maintainable within flexible, standards-based content management systems or directly in Microsoft Word - is reduced to an automated process.
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"Coextant has been a IBM/Lotus Business Partner for many years, and during this time we've built up extensive knowledge in collaborative content processes, conversions and managing Notes formats. This expertise has enabled us to develop a solution which will help Domino shops meet current and future Content Management requirements without the quality and cost sacrifices required by other approaches. The new technology frees up content that seems trapped in Notes and makes it easily available for reuse in new, cost effective and exciting ways," Paul Caspers explained.
The Lotus Notes Connector is a highly configurable tool that can be integrated with custom-developed applications and extended to meet specific export requirements. Using an event-based integration, the Connector monitors the Notes repository, exports/migrates documents as they are saved (preserving formats, images, tables, attachments etc), and automatically converts the proprietary Lotus Notes document format into standard formats such as RTF, HTML and XML to be processed by Hyper.Net. Internally, Hyper.Net leverages Lotus Domino's standard XML exchange facility DxlExporter to assist with the conversion.
Additional Information About Coextant
If you are interested in our solutions or if you want to arrange for a presentation, please contact Paul Caspers or Robert Nederby. For more information and for a Live Demo of our Content Automation Solutions please visit www.coextant.com.
Coextant Systems International AG Schönbergstr. 45 73760 Ostfildern Tel 0049(0)711/45-1000-0