Lotus Notes / Domino search connector - is there a market?

So have been getting client requests for us (sharepointworks) to develop a 64 bit lotus notes connector on our framework. It would be developed in partnership with an IBM Lotus technology partner and thus would be very robust and scalable. More important it would benefit from our advanced security mapping framework to ensure users / groups and real time security is honored.

We are now trying to decide if there is enough of a market to do this. I have not had the opportunity to evaluate the current packaged MS offering and we don't really want to compete with free. But if demand keeps increasing we will add it to our Enterprise offerings. (Hummingbird, PCDocs, Worksite, Exchange Mailboxes, SQLServer, OLEDB, Dynamics(in development), Semantec Enterprise Vault (in planning)).

If any of my readers has any insight as to the market for this or if you have an interest in it (or any feature requests), please let me know through this blog. As with all connectors developed on our framework, it will be code complete in a matter of weeks once we start development.

 

 

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Published 25 March 2008 05:39 PM by notorioustech

Comments

# Monica Isaac said on 17 April, 2008 03:29 AM

A lot of enterprises here in Singapore are using Lotus notes as their enterpise groupware.

And now with Sharepoint in the limelight, we have been getting some inquiries if it is possible to index Lotus notes database and show this on Sharepoint 2007.

We have found a solution to support this requirement in meiyinglim.blogspot.com/.../using-sharepoint-2007-to-index-lotus.html.  However, we are proposing Sharepoint to use 64-bit environment and it may pose as a problem if this dll from IBM can support it.

# cdanninger said on 07 May, 2008 09:32 AM

Hi,

do you know if there is a SharePoint protocol handler for Semantec Enterprise Vault. What's your progress in implementing it.

Cheers

Christian

# notorioustech said on 07 May, 2008 09:44 AM

Our progress is good, we are expecting to announce and demo it at the Semantec user conference in June.

If you would like to participate in our beta testing ( for a discounted purchase price) please email me your contact information at sales@sharepointworks.com

# ShawnC said on 07 August, 2008 09:25 AM

Oh god yes!!!!  Please keep us updated...

# notorioustech said on 07 August, 2008 10:11 AM

Vault connector will be released at the end of this month.

The notes connector is released in beta and will also be released at the end of the month.

Please email me at sales@sharepointworks.com  for more information

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