At IBM ConnectED last January, speaker Martin Garrels, from GAD eG, presented how GAD and IBM created an innovative solution enabling the IBM Notes Browser Plug-in to work in a fully integrated browser-based workplace. GAD is moving its workplace to a web-based cloud solution, using the power of iNotes, XPages, Connections, WebSphere Portal and the IBM Notes Browser Plug-in. With an IBM Domino infrastructure of about 1900 servers and 65,000 users in a multi-domain environment, GAD serves about 10,000 custom applications. Many applications are web-enabled with XPages technology, but a lot more are legacy applications, which are still in use. To put them in a browser context, the GAD and IBM team overcame many challenges. For more information, go to the SocialBiz User Group at https://reg.socialbizug.org/

1. INV205: Notes goes Cloud:
The IBM Notes Browser
Plug-in integrated in GAD’s
browser based workspace
Martin Garrels, GAD eG

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4. GAD at a glance
Specialist for providing banking IT services
IT Consultancy and competence center, application software development company and
data processing center for
– 410 cooperative banks “Volksbanken & Raiffeisenbanken“ as well as retail banks
– and affiliated companies in the cooperative financial service group in Germany
Over 50 years of IT experience in the financial service sector

5. GAD at a glance
Facts and figures*
– 1,815 employees
– 410 banks
– 65,335 bank employees
Number of servers (production):*
– 4 IBM EC 12 Mainframe
– 568 Unix ® servers
– 1,423 Virtual Unix servers
– 1,862 Linux ® and Windows ® servers
– 6,965 Virtual Linux and Windows servers
• 1,400 Domino servers
• today: 1,813 Domino servers
Total storage capacity: 2,053 terabytes
Tape capacity: 6,162 terabytes
* status as at 31.12.2013

6. Motivation for creating a cloud banking workplace
Reasons to change
– consumer technology
– cost pressures
– core processes
– legal requirements
Technology in every customer location as it was in 2009
– fat clients with many rich client applications
– the core banking system (bank21®) as a Java swing client application
– file servers
– Domino servers
– LDAP servers and many more

7. Initial position for changing the Domino environment in 2009
Facts and figures*
– 1,600 Domino servers for the customers in more than 1,000 locations
– > 400 Domino domains (one for each customer)
– 200 Domino servers for GAD and technical backend in GAD’s data center
– 50 Domino domains
– 65,000 Domino users
270 terabytes of Domino data*
– 80 TB of applications are deployed from GAD
– 190 TB of applications are self developed or not purchased from GAD
* rounded values from 2009

8. Our way - A new standardized Domino server
Creating a new standardized Domino server
– one Domino server on one Microsoft® Windows® entity; virtualized with Hyper-V®
– automated installation of the server
Creating a new architecture for Domino
– one Domino domain for each customer with
• two clustered Domino servers for GAD applications and mail files (required)
• up to 16 Domino servers for non-GAD applications (optional)
Standardization and automation
– automated Domino server configuration
– administrative tool for customer’s administrator

9. Infrastructure of our new collaboration cloud environment

10. GAD applications are web applications
GAD Domino applications are web enabled with XPages or moved to web technology
For accessing users’ personal mail files we are using iNotes ®
All applications are started from our “ApplicationStarter”

11. GAD’s dilemma when moving to a browser-based platform
Non-GAD applications in former Domino environments
– customers developed these applications or
– customers purchased these applications from the market
– around 30,000 databases based upon 10,000 different templates
The problems with these applications:
– we do not know what these applications do
– we do not have access to them
– we do not know whether they are web-enabled or not
– we do not know anything about their interfaces,
agents, scripts, UI …

12. Local Notes Client
Possible Solutions
leaving browser context
no integration with non-Domino
applications
a very large server farm is needed
Notes Clients on Citrix®
leaving browser context
large amount of network traffic
(esp. replication and mail file access)
the need of fat clients
Notes Browser Plug-in
Individual development effort
Complex redesign
Needs too much time and money
Full web-enabling
Fast integration with our environment
Re-use of existing applications
Use of our web interfaces for GAD’s web
application

13. Our Solution - IBM Notes Browser Plug-in
IBM Notes Browser Plug-in for non-GAD applications
Integration of NBP into our “ApplicationStarter”
Use of panagenda® MarvelClient® to configure the NBP
and to roam user’s personal data
User can login to “their” Notes on every workstation (OS-User independent)
No leaving the browser context
Lightweight client integrated
Use of our web Apps
Re-use applications without modifications
Third party tools with need for local Notes installation

14. Final Architecture for Domino access

15. What is IBM Notes Browser Plug-in?
Allow Notes applications to operate inside a web browser – unmodified
For Mozilla ® Firefox ® & Internet Explorer ® on Windows & Citrix
ID106: IBM Notes Applications to the Web: IBM Notes Browser Plug-in by Rajesh Patil

16. IBM Notes Browser Plug-in enhancements for GAD
support for custom applications performing mail & calendar operations
– GAD found a large number of custom applications which required access to user’s mail files or
calendars via the script
– as IBM Notes Browser Plug-in 9.0 did not support mail access, this prevented the applications
from working properly.
GAD’s use of redirector for all the http access to Domino server
– modifications needed in Notes Browser Plug-in to ensure it used re-director

17. IBM Notes Browser Plug-in enhancements for GAD
GAD has it’s own portal for accessing Notes/Domino applications
– no longer needed users to open NBP homepage or workspace (preference added to disable)
GAD portal allows the user to logoff from within the portal & login as another user
– NBP needed to tell Firefox to terminate the plug-in immediately so the new user does not re-use
previous user’s credentials
– GAD needed a new JavaScript API to ask the Notes Browser Plug-in if it has unsaved data in its
tabs
– GAD needed a JavaScript API to shutdown NBP tabs with and without saving when the user
selects “GAD portal switch ID” or “GAD portal log off”
– GAD needed a JavaScript API to handle lock screen function
All these new enhancements are part of the current NBP version 9.0.1 FP2

18. Goals we reached with our cloud project
high secure private cloud infrastructure
Optimized modern browser-based workspace
Reduction of IT complexity with standardization and centralization
Faster time-to-market
Customers are able to use consumer technology
cost savings
avoiding additional costs due to new legal requirements

19. Goals we reached with the Notes Browser Plug-in
Seamless integration of Notes Browser Plug-in in our browser based workspace
cross platform integration with all other application (e.g. Office on Citrix…)
Re-use of legacy applications without modifications
web enabling only needed for business critical applications or processes