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OrangeScape Solution Brief - Moving Your Lotus Applications To Google
OrangeScape Solution Brief - Moving Your Lotus Applications To Google
Run-time Application Migrations are shortsighted; you need a Business Platform on cloud for the future. OrangeScape!
When moving from Lotus to a Cloud solution like Google, the Email equivalent, Gmail, is obvious. However, Domino applications, which are primarily workflow and transaction driven, do not fit directly into the Google platform. How do you migrate in a way that provides you with a technologically progressive upgrade that is also a long-term business advantage and not just a run-time platform migration? OrangeScape provides you with the complete solution for Lotus Domino migrating to Googles Cloud infrastructure.
Ease of Development. A rapid development paradigm based on modeling. Ease of Access. Instant Availability of the Development Environment to power users without a complex workstation configuration. Visual & Model-driven. Model driven and a Visual development environment to maximize power user engagement. Abstraction & Functional focus. The environment must focus on function and abstract the underlying technology. Maintenance and Change Management. It should be as easy to make changes to the developed application, as it was to create initially.
Lotus Notes has functional characteristics that inspire business innovation, help respond quickly to business needs and have a functional focus. Often times, these benefits are offset due to a major dependence on IT. OrangeScapes Visual PaaS platform offers the best of both worlds A model driven rapid development paradigm with a robust, scalable, cloud-based architecture that is IT friendly.
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Important fact: OrangeScape based Applications integrate and interact seamlessly with the underlying cloud infrastructure as well as the user-facing messaging infrastructure on Google.
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OrangeScape Studio is a 5GL environment that enables users to create applications without writing code. The studio runs in a browser and uses a visual modeling approach for developing applications. The studio is organized into various perspectives to address the different components of Application Development. Figure 3 OrangeScape Studio - Visual Environment
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Run-time Architecture
OrangeScape has a pre-integrated four-tier architecture on a SOA foundation. The following diagram depicts a simplified high-level architecture for a typical J2EE deployment:
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Figure 6 Lotus Notes Migration to OrangeScape - Methodology Heres a brief description of the phases involved: Discovery and Analysis (Automated). OrangeScape automates the Discovery and Analysis phase by identifying which applications can be moved quickly by assigning a Complexity Score which is derived from a combination of application type, Usage Frequency and User profiles. This phase provides a clear road-map on where to start. Accelerated Migration (Automated). The actual rapid migration that is possible with the meta-data based approach. Our Accelerator allows you to migrate the majority of the application automatically, resulting in time and cost savings and riskmitigation. Meta-data approach allows for the migration of all of the mapped elements such as Schema, Forms/Views, and Data to the corresponding elements in OrangeScape. Enhance (Business Logic, Rules, Workflow, Integration). After the automated migration activity, the full power of OrangeScapes 5 GL Studio Development Environment comes into play, allowing visual and model driven enhancements to the migrated Application.
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OrangeScape Solution for Domino Apps on Google This also offers an opportunity to update the Business Rules, Workflows, and even the Data Model for any functional upgrades that the business desires during the migration or at any point thereafter. OrangeScape based Application Development, being 3-to-5 times faster than traditional approaches, means that you can achieve an accelerated Migration path without compromising on the target platform capabilities from either a Development or a Run-time perspective.
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OrangeScape is a rare breed technology company, one of the Global 10 Cloud Platform-as-a-Service providers, with customers and partners in USA, India, UK & Europe. For details, visit www.orangescape.com 6 OrangeScape Technologies