Negatives and Positives with Lotus Notes

Gone are the days when snail mails are used to test your patience. Now that we have different email clients to choose from, communication has become unbelievably fast. What more, we have started differentiating between the functionalities of the email platforms that we work on. All of you, who have been using email clients, must have at least once worked on MS Outlook. MS Outlook is the choice of almost every second organization. MS Outlook is quite popular and prevalent email client used by companies, big or small businesses and even home offices.

But many users of Lotus Notes suggest new ones to switch to Outlook. There are many, who find Lotus Notes great to work on, although there are many who feel Lotus Notes faces fierce competition from Outlook. Throwing light over the pros and cons of Lotus Notes, mentioned below are the some negatives and positives of Lotus Notes:

The best of Lotus Notes:

• Inclusion of diary, calendar, email, to-do-list (like Outlook) eases data management

• Enables creation of databases for workflow management (like public folders in Outlook)

• Allows mobile users to access emails remotely via VPN or webmail (like Windows remote access)

• Highly secure region (plus point over MS environment)

• Reliable Domino tech support

Negatives of Lotus Notes:

• Clunky-looking user-interface

• Awkward navigation (imagine Netscape browser from 90’s)

• Any kind of workgroup creation, email addition or changes required can be performed only with the help of administrative support person (biggest negative trait)

• Domino and Lotus Notes needs to be updated and backed up for optimal processing (which is not important with Outlook and Exchange Server)

Overall, talking of Outlook over Lotus Notes, Outlook offers ease in navigation, flexibility to work, easy to use interface and with proper permissions allows creation of public folders, share emails and contacts (unlike Lotus Notes). Lotus Notes requires administration through Notes server for several options. Also, due to limited user base of Lotus Notes, the software update is low. That’s why Lotus Notes users migrate to Outlook.

Use Kernel for Lotus Notes to migrate from Lotus Notes to Outlook, as it is a self-explanatory, amendable, and cost-effective email migration tool, which supports all versions of Lotus Notes, Outlook, Exchange Server, and Domino Server.

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