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Make Your Data Work For You
Domino Application Strategy
Key insights for successful
modernization and migration projects
Franz Walder December 10, 2020

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Agenda
Join the conversation using #iDNAApplications & @panagenda
Franz Walder
Product Manager

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I. Introducing panagenda
II. Why you should care
III. Project scope: facts or fiction?
IV. Asking the right questions
Agenda

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Make Your Data Work For You
About panagenda
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About panagenda
Customers in
run more than
of our solutions.
over 70 countries
11 million licenses

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About panagenda
Our smart solutions introduce
into your collaboration landscape!
 Analytics
 Automation
 Optimization

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About panagenda
We help our customers to …
… be more efficient.
… reduce manual effort.
… save cost.

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Make Your Data Work For You
Why you should care
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Whatever challenge your are facing …
• Consolidation
• Modernization
• Migration
– to the Cloud
– to a different platform
… up to a certain point, the answers you need remain largely the same.

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If you are anything like the majority of our customers,
your Notes/Domino environment …
… has grown over many years or even decades
… has had many admins and developers
… has seen more re-organizations
than most of your current staff

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Make Your Data Work For You
Project scope:
Facts or fiction?
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The Frustration
Project Goals Reality?
Project Scope

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The million dollar question
How do you define the project scope,
to make those strategic goals reality?

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Succeeding where others fail
Do you have to re-define the goals
to deliver a successful project?

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Make Your Data Work For You
Asking the right questions
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Asking the right questions
Quick detour: we did a survey
• IT pro’s from all over the world
• Five questions (one open-ended)
• Three for today
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Asking the right questions
What’s the structure and size
of your environment?

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What’s the structure and size of your environment?

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Asking the right questions
How many databases are unused?

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Survey Results
Survey question #1:
Would it be useful to be able to
easily identify unused applications?
Selection options: rate 1 to 10
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Would it be useful to be able to
easily identify unused applications?
21 Selection options: rate 1 to 10
9.1
average score

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Would it be useful to be able to
easily identify unused applications?
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>60%
rated this with 10
Selection options: rate 1 to 10

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Would it be useful to be able to
easily identify unused applications?
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<10%
rated this 5 or lower
Selection options: rate 1 to 10

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How many databases are unused?

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Asking the right questions
How many databases
can be excluded from the project?

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How many databases can be excluded from the project?

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Asking the right questions
How many users
are actively using Notes?

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How many users are actively using Notes?

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Asking the right questions
How does DB design complexity
impact re-development costs?

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Survey Results
Survey question #4:
Where do you think application source code
analysis can help with your projects?
Selection options (multiple choice):
Platform dependencies, Migration roadblocks,
Calculating project effort, Not urgent
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Where do you think application source code
analysis can help with your projects?
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>45%said
Platform dependencies

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Where do you think application source code
analysis can help with your projects?
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>60%said
Migration roadblocks

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Where do you think application source code
analysis can help with your projects?
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85%said
Calculating project effort

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Where do you think application source code
analysis can help with your projects?
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<8%said
Not urgent

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Where do you think application source code
analysis can help with your projects?
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>60%picked
Two or more answers

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Survey Results
Survey question #5:
What is your greatest obstacle to your
migration or modernization project?
Selection options: open-ended
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What is your greatest obstacle
to your migration or modernization project?
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>50%
mentioned lack of
development resources or skill

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Reduce Re-development Cost
Code Similarity Clusters
Source Code Duplication Detection

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Discover Roadblocks in Source Code
Code Full-Text Search
Pre-defined Search Patterns

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Asking the right questions
Who are the application owners
who are stakeholders in the project?

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Who are the application owners who are stakeholders in the project?

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Activity Audit by Application, User, Department or Location
Activity Lookup by Application: Most Active Departments & Locations

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Asking the right questions
What are the most efficient
paths forward for your applications?

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What are the most efficient paths forward for your applications?

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What are the most efficient paths forward for your applications?
• No single solution fits every application
• Much might be dictated by your project goals
• Analytics must not have an agenda
beyond presenting facts

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What are the most efficient paths forward for your applications?
• teamWorkr presents an exciting new approach
– Beautiful apps on mobile and web in minutes
– Is a great solution for migration and modernization scenarios
• ThreeThirds are an amazing HCL solutions hosting partner
– Keep your investment, but cut down on operating cost

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Asking the right questions
How does application content
influence my app transformation choices?

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How old is the content of my DBs and who created it?
Content Age: Document Creation History
Content Editors: List of Most Active Users

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What types of attachments are there and how large are they?
Attachments by Type
Attachment Size Distribution

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What in my design is important and what is dangerous?
Design Usage: Active Forms
Special Objects in Rich-Text Fields

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Do document encryption and reader fields play a role?
Encryption & Signature in Documents
Reader & Author Fields

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Wrapping it up
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Which questions to ask?
➢ Usage
➢ Design / Code
➢ Content

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A straight-forward project

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Thank You!
Questions?