Make the leap: Upgrade to Microsoft collaboration technologies

Elevate the effectiveness of your people. Enable those who work for you to be more effective wherever and however they work—because they're always using the same familiar and flexible set of modern tools whether in the office and on the road.

Improve business processes. Enable business process redesign and organization effectiveness by deploying a flexible, scalable, and modern collaborative platform that helps enable people to allow work globally across organizational boundaries.

Reduce the cost and complexity of your infrastructure. Enhance operational efficiency and reduce the time administrators spend managing and troubleshooting by updating legacy systems to a modern, integrated platform.

Better utilize existing Microsoft investments. Deploying Microsoft collaboration technologies can quickly lead to substantial new solutions and business value with technologies you may already use.

The need to gain business value
Read how, by moving to the Microsoft collaboration platform, Lotus Notes and Domino customers generated significant business value, including reducing the cost and complexity of their collaborative environment and reaping new end-user benefits.

Outmoded business processes
Read the CGI-AMS case study to learn how the company not only saved $500,000 U.S. in deployment and hardware costs but also saw a $50 million U.S. increase in revenues the first year.

Limited collaboration and mobility options
Read the RSM McGladrey case study to learn how the company improved end-user productivity for its mobile workforce and anticipates continuing to save millions of dollars annually.

Alignment of IT operations with corporate strategy
Read the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs case study to learn how the organization used Microsoft's application analysis process to transition their Notes applications to Microsoft.

Better integrate the IT systems of different offices
Read the Dimension Data case study to learn how the company moved to Office, Exchange, SharePoint, LCS and Project (2003 platform) to achieve benefits such as cost savings, effective collaboration, and reliable and secure environment.

Forrester report: Collaboration trends 2006 to 2007
Read this 2006 research document to see how interest in Microsoft's and other providers' workplace collaboration tools continues to grow.

IDC: Worldwide integrated collaborative environments 2004 vendor shares
Read the 2004 IDC research document to see how the future success of the leading messaging system providers—including IBM, Microsoft, Novell, and Oracle—compares.

Business Week:Microsoft and IBM: Combat over collaboration

Forbes:IBM in denial over Lotus Notes and More bad news for Lotus Notes

Find technical resources
Get the technical resources you need to prepare for and deploy a migration from Lotus Notes or to implement a Microsoft collaboration system that coexists with Lotus Notes/Domino.
NEW Microsoft recently announced a set of new application and messaging migration tools to assist Lotus Notes/Domino customers with the move to the Microsoft platform. Read the announcement details here.
NEW Download these demos to have a better understanding of the capabilities and benefits of transitioning from Lotus Domino to Microsoft's messaging, directory, and application platform.

Download out-of-the-box Windows SharePoint Services business applications
Start using the latest Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services application templates right away. Suited for organizations of any size, these customized applications address a variety of employee, human resources, and management needs, such as managing employee time cards and training staff.
NEW Microsoft just released Discussion Database, Document Library and Team Work Site application templates specifically designed for Notes/Domino customers.

Navigant Consulting: Microsoft Office system solutions deliver business value
See the results of business value studies that show how Microsoft Office system solutions can help organizations save money and achieve higher returns by improving work processes.

Compare Microsoft Exchange Server to other messaging solutions
Find total cost of ownership (TCO) calculators, white papers, analyst reports, and other resources that demonstrate how Microsoft Exchange Server stacks up against the competition.

Watch the "Leverage your Notes investment" webcast series
View prerecorded webcasts on how to build a Microsoft collaboration solution that integrates with a Lotus Notes environment, working with a Microsoft Partner to update your collaboration technology investment, and more.