Tuesday
Jan192010
An amusing Notes Migration Story.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:14PM Large customer running Notes 5. Accenture and Microsoft come in and say "Look, this is rubbish, migrate the mail to exchange, and within 2 years get the apps from Notes into dot-net".
Customer says to IBM "Will this work?". IBM calls a meeting with the customer - Accenture guy turns up.
IBM guy says to the Accenture guy - "Turn your PC around". He has to. On his Accenture Standard Build laptop - Lotus Notes.
"When did Accenture start migrating from Notes?" - "2001"
"How many Notes apps do you still have" "600"
"Do you have to request an Exchange Mailbox using a Notes App". .... .. "Yes".
Result: Accenture booted out, Notes environment upgraded, customer happy. Saved a bunch of money.
Reader Comments (16)
This is one of my favorite stories EVER!
Sounds like the ms exchange migration at a large Scandinavian airline company... They still have Notes-applications in use. It was aprox 10 yrs ago.
Yippee-Ki-Yay ...
Fabulous, just fabulous...
The IBM chap deserves a medal!
That was freakin' BRILLIANT! Cheers to the IBM guy!
fabulous story indeed.. heard from one of our Denmark based clients that not only they but all other organizations of entire Scandinavian countries never entertained Accenture ...!! Kudos to IBM...
This one's hilarious. Hope the BM guys will receive an award for outstanding customer focus :-)
I mentioned this post to a senior IBM Exec today and he grinned like a Cheshire cat. Here's hoping the guy involved gets recognition for this.
;-)
---* Bill
Moral of the story: make sure your Notes customers have useful, preferably mission critical, applications running.
Sound like a french glass company.
Luc - the company name in question wasn't a French Glass company.. Sounds like this has happened more than once ;-)
---* Bill
It's all about the apps.
Sounds like this is 2 vendors getting together and trying to bamboozle management - wonder if either IBM or Accenture bothered to talk to the guys who developed the apps. Happens all too often - in both directions.
That's great...... Still IBM need to focus on many other customers. Many of the existing customers are mislead by MS and burning their fuel (money).
The more important question is how much has Accenture paid over the years to migrate apps to other platforms and how much do those other platforms cost them in comparison to what Lotus Notes would have cost?