Urgent: Lotus notes workflow migration to SharePoint.

Question

Hello All,

I am new to lotus notes, so need help and suggestions. Is there any way to access workflows from lotus notes? Can we write any automated tool to migrate general lotus workflow to SharePoint directly

Answer 1

Caveat: I worked on Lotus Notes->Oracle Portal migration for a large customer, and then worked on building an intranet site using Sharepoint 2007 for the same customer.

There are plenty of commercial tools assisting you on migrating from Lotus to Sharepoint (this seems to be an almost inevitable process, unless you prefer to go for Liferay/Alfresco)... these tend to concentrate on migrating documents instead of workflow, though, and I we never found anything "free" that could really help in the migration.

What I can say is that rolling out your own converter is probably too much of a problem. If you have a few dozens workflows you would probably be better served by converting "by hand". If you are making a complete migration (including documents) I suggest you to look for commercial solutions.

Answer 2

Thats true most of these tools are doing data migration like the one provided below

PCVITA Sharepoint Migration

This supports both File System and Exchange Server Public Folder. But to answer your questions can you try customization for migrating the workflows. As the business rules are different and using a standard tools for such migration can be sometime a bad experience.