Mail is received as a commodity from the cloud, also Collaboration. However, in many client meetings we often hear the question, where are we heading with the hundreds of Notes applications? Which strategy is most effective and cost efficient at the same time? Is cloud a practical answer? With sound and proven methodology Notes applications can be transformed into valuable web applications in the cloud. It turns out that today the time has come for cloud platforms. A side view of large customer projects, already transforming their Notes applications to the cloud - for example to IBM SoftLayer - is helpful. This Track helps you understand that strategies that are implemented and lets you understand the costs and risks involved.

1. Roman Weber / CEO, Christian Güdemann / CTO, WebGate
Praxistaugliche Strategien für Apps 2 Cloud

2. Commodity & Cloud
Mail is Commodity!
Therefore strategic Move to the Cloud!
Example IBM Verse:
•Build in Business Intelligence
•Access to Watson
•Access to the latest and greatest Version
•Full Browser based (No Notes Client
needed)
•Full Mobile Access

3. Cloud is like Pizza with Friends

4. Commodity & Cloud
Mail is Commodity ergo
Hasta Luego Notes Client
?

5. Commodity & Cloud
More often Hasta Luego…
•Qualified Administrators
•Qualified Developers
They are leaving
the sinking ship!

6. Typical Environment

7. The plan & perception

8. The beast of reality

9. The 70%, 20% and 10% rule

10. 3 Groups of Applications
Type of Application
70%
To be deleted?
•Legal Implications?
•Period of safekeeping?
Read only Archives?
Which client?
20%
To be migrated?
Read and Write Access?
Replaced by SaaS Solution?
Which client?
10%
Business Critical
No standard Solution available
High value in Data and Process
Which client?

11. 70% not actively used
Recommendations
•Identify
• To be deleted
• To be transferded to read only
archive = use WebGate‘s nsf to
pdfTree tool
•Generally migrate to a Non-Notes
Client Version
•Generally migrate to a Non-Notes
Server Version

12. 20% Simple Libraries
Recommendations
•Identify
•Migrate to a new platform
• IBM Connections Communities
• IBM Content Management
• Sharepoint
• Google Docs
•Run in a Cloud Environment
•Use the WebGate methodology
RAILS to onboard into the Cloud
• Safe on Clients and internal
Ressources

13. 10% complex and high value
Recommendations
•Identify
•Use the WebGate methodology
AUTOP to transform into State of
the Art Java Applications
• Browser Access (No latency
issues)
• Save on Clients and internal
Ressources
• Save on migration costs
• Run in a Cloud Environment

14. With automation built into the WebGate MCS4Domino
infrastructure as well as automated Domino installation services,
we can help significantly reduce provisioning times.
Legacy server
environments
Years
Payback period for
new services
ComplexStandardization
Nearly fixedCost model
Labor intensive,
weeks or months
Deployment process
Months
Change
management
WeeksTest provisioning
NoneSelf service
10-20 percent
(inefficient)
Server and storage
utilization
FromCapabilities
Cloud server
environments
Months
Self service
By the user, day
or database
Automated,
within days
Days
or hours
Hours or Days
Unlimited
70-90 percent
(highly efficient)
To*
Shifting
workloads to the
Cloud can help
enable new
opportunities
and drive
significant cost
savings.

15. Available datacenters IBM Softlayer and Swisscom Bern
15

16. Deploy-
ment
phases
Key
events
• Analyze
• Assess
environment
and applications
via iDNA.
• Analyze
applications for
server names,
IP addresses,
mail interaction
etc.
• Define priorities
• Review and
Readyness
• Service
requirements
like SLA, SLC’s
• Application
discovery –
architecture,
interfaces
• Infrastructure
requirements,
network design
• Operational run
books, migration
strategy
• Roles and
Responsibilities
• Infrastructure
• Built shared
infrastructure
• Build and test
infrastructure
• Build and
migrate
databases,
applications
• Phase cutover
development,
quality
assurance
(QA), stage
production
• Service and
Support
• Ongoing
system
stabilization
and
monitoring
• Performance
Tuning
• Regular
Health
Checks
• Review of use
stories
against
defined
baseline
We offer a standard process to support the transition and
transformation of your Domino environments and operation to
the MCS4Domino applications environment
• Leverage
• Technical
support
• System
stabilization
and
monitoring
• Operations
process
training
• Transition to
operations
• Go-Life
support
• Best
Practices

17. Skills
• More than 250 man years of knowledgeable
professionals about Notes/Domino and cloud
solutions
• WebGate assigns named resources for the
key roles to each contract
Experience
• Proven track record to demonstrate that we
can make it happen, including most
recently:
• Domino Applications as a Service
• Domino Cloud Migrations
• Agile Project Management
Value-add services
• One-stop shop for consulting, migration,
implementation and managed services
• Software as a Service, rent back your
converted Domino application as a
service
SwissNess and Extended reach
• Cloud data centers located on
almost every continent via IBM Softlayer
• Swiss Data Center location available
hosted by Swisscom
What makes WebGate Cloud Systems different from its
competitors?

18. Reference
• Migrating the whole Order Management application and infrastructure from the old provider to a IBM
SoftLayer Private Cloud WebGate embraced
• Analyzing the complex order management based on Notes and Web, IBM Domino Server, Tomcat
application Server, SQL-Databases and SAP-Data-Integration
• Code review of hard coded server names, URLs and e-mail addresses and remediation
Migration of eight servers to the new Private Cloud in IBM SoftLayer Amsterdam, including bridging to
the old network serving 90 sites
• Integrating connectors to SAP, MS SQL and FTP
• Engineering of a new IBM Notes Client Package and rollout to the users to be migrated
In the very narrow timeframe of eight weeks only from signing the contract until full operations up and
running - WebGate delivered an excellent quality - driven by an agile project management.
Read more…
Reference Story Archroma

19. 19
1. Give Applications a new home!
2. Give Applications a new life!
3. Explore new business areas!

20. 20
Give Applications a new Home
aka
Example of a successful
onboarding COUNTDOWN
(Archroma Case)

21. Customer & IBM approach
WebGate!
Small thing to do. Please move
200+ Databases to the cloud.

22. CIO’s impression!
Make a backup here..
Put the backup there..
Finish and “klar”
Piece of cake!!

23. Oookeyyy!!??
What about access?
What about hard coded server names?
What about downsizing your infrastructure?
What about old / new users?
What about interfaces?

24. What is the timeframe?
t minus 7 weeks!!!
= End of August 2014

25. Accepts the challenge!
But then…

26. Oh and yes, we need realtime live
access to our On-Site SAP
Did we tell you, that we have
credit card buying possibilities?

27. …and of course we completely
forgot about our servers in
brazil!
Without those, no truck will run
and deliver our goods..

28. t minus 2 weeks..
You need to move some more “Non-Domino Servers” to SoftLayer!!
• SHIFT4 Server (licensed by Archroma) --> Creditcard Approval and Transaction
Server
• Tomcat Server with AGOP --> Archroma Global Operation Portal
• WINSbroker --> Realtime Access to SAP
• ecKnowledge Server --> Engine that connects SQL DBs with SAP and Notes
Apps
• SQL Server incl FTP
• BI Server (BOXI) --> Business Intelligence Server for reports / sales forecast /
Orders etc.
• 2x Vyatta box (virtual Network Router and Firewall)

29. I admit > slight attacks of panic!

30. 03. Sept., 2014 IBM Confidential
But all you need is “love” and great Team!!

31. Nulla
We did it!!
A total of 30+ Servers became 15 SoftLayer Servers
15 employees of WebGate where involved
We had to use:
• Engineering Knowhow (Domino, Java App Server, TCPIP)
• Application Development Knowhow, Database and SQL
• SoftLayer Knowhow
• High Spirits!!!
• Complete confidence in our people and skills!!!

32. Some QuoteS:
• Commendations to you and your team. Please pass this on: The project was
excellently executed!
• The team and I here in the US can honestly say, this has been THE BEST
MIGRATION EVER in our history with the company
• The migration result is impressive due to short notice and complexity of the
tasks. I want to say "Thank you!" to all involved colleagues for the very good
preparation and migration during the last weekend. I also want to
congratulate WebGate Consulting AG and say thanks for the productive and
pragmatic cooperation.
• Thank you all for the work well done. I appreciate everyone’s efforts and agree
with Justin that this migration has gone very well. Thank you all again for your
hard work and countless hours. It is greatly appreciated
• Great work!!!
• Well Done!!!

33. Give Applications a new life
Aka
WebGate AUTOP Methodology

34. Pre-requirementsPre-requirements
 Identify “Pearls!”
 Heavy used Applications
 High value data
 Talk with the business
 Understand the business

35. Pre-requirementsPre-requirements
 Ask or become an XPages Ninja
 Don’t talk about the Domino Server
 Talk about A Rock Solid JAVA Application Server
 Better, more stable than Apache or Tomcat with a
very rich feature set (ex. Encryption, User handling..)
 If the customers has a Lotus / Domino Phase out
Decision.. 
 Talk instead about this great alternative => XWork
Server AND best of it, it is Domino compatible 

36. WebGate’s unique methodology AUTOPWebGate’s unique methodology AUTOP
Analyze: We analyze the application’s logic that resides in the code an
in the data
Understand: Together with the customer we write down, which
current or new user stories shall be programmed in the iterations
Transform: The user stories are put into code within a new XPages
frontend and we construct the business logic in the background
Operate: We assure the application’s operation
Perform: The applications is constantly being optimized. This from the
user frontend all the way down to the data handling in the background

37. IBM Connections?? On Domino??? WTF!!IBM Connections?? On Domino??? WTF!!

38. Some Examples “Running Now @SoftLayer”Some Examples “Running Now @SoftLayer”
Efficient ordering process through modernizing
the web application „Improved usability, intuitive views, easier and
faster searching possibilities and a high performance boost!“ Jörg Braun, Technical
Product Support
Ease of work through web CRM
“We were quiet surprised about the profound knowledge, the technical skills and the
creativity of WebGate’s development team how they solved our challenges.” Leonora
Cadalbert, Office Manager TCS
Transforming our needs exactly “We simply wanted an easy to
use and modern web application for your theater’s planning and acting schedule.” Marc
Baumann, Leader of the Theater Winterthur
WebGate shares top Apps for free on openNTF.org
Our CTO and IBM Champion Christian Güdemann is
the chairman of OpenNTF!!

39. Example “Theatron” The whole Theater in yourExample “Theatron” The whole Theater in your
PocketPocket
Our specialized theater software
• Content management und syndication
• Included in the official website
• internal program
• internal resource scheduling

40. Example “Diversey” The whole CRM unleashedExample “Diversey” The whole CRM unleashed
Really old CRM Application (Stone Age)
• Modernized with AUTOP
• Run on Softlayer Amsterdam