INS Introduces Lotus Notes Assessment and Migration Solution; Provides Practical Upgrade and Migration Options That Maximize Functionality and Minimize Costs

Business Wire, July 27, 2006

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- INS, a leading global provider of business-driven information technology consulting and software solutions, announced today its Lotus Notes Assessment and Migration solution. This solution consists of INS services that help enterprises assess the performance of their current Notes/Domino environment to meet their business goals, identify opportunities for optimizing their platform and evaluate and execute migrations to alternative platforms to achieve lower costs and increase flexibility.

Using efficient, scalable, collaborative application platforms that have the ability to integrate with a variety of applications is a high priority of today's forward-thinking organizations. Many companies are evaluating their collaboration and messaging platforms in an effort to reduce technical complexities and limitations that result in high management and maintenance costs, non-intuitive user interfaces and challenges that deter enterprise integration. The INS Lotus Notes Assessment and Migration solution enables these companies to reduce the TCO involved in managing and maintaining their collaborative environment while ensuring that employees have intuitive, highly functional applications.

"We have been hearing from clients for some time that they would like help in examining their Notes environment," stated INS CEO David Butze. "In response we've put together this solution to help them quickly understand the various options to simplify their platforms, gain new functionality and reduce costs. In many cases, Return on Investment for Notes optimization and architected migration to alternative platforms such as Microsoft can be achieved in three years or less."

The INS Lotus Notes Assessment and Migration solution consist of four major components:

- Assessment - consists of a complete architecture analysis of all Notes/Domino applications, real-time collaboration services infrastructure and overall Domino email infrastructure, as well as recommendation of a target platform for upgrade or migration.

- Planning and Design - entails detailed design, deployment planning and proof-of-concept for application and messaging upgrade/migration.

- Implementation - entails deployment of a target platform environment and migrating applications, user accounts and data.

- Management and Optimization - encompasses operational support, iterative improvements to the collaborative application environment and development/deployment of new applications.

INS helps enterprises achieve a number of benefits from optimizing their communication and collaboration platform, including:

- Reduce costs by finding and purging unused and duplicate Notes applications.

- Overcome scalability and performance issues.

- Consolidate and simplify platform architecture, reducing the number of servers and corresponding administration costs.

- Improve application flexibility and integration with other systems.

The INS Lotus Notes Assessment and Migration solution is appropriate for clients having Lotus Notes/Domino installations that are becoming costly and difficult to manage, as well as when integrating another collaboration platform as a result of a merger or acquisition. This solution can be customized to meet the needs of each IT organization depending on the number of seats and applications and its overall business objectives. For more information, go to http://www.ins.com/solutions/technical/default.aspx?id=1565.

About INS

INS is a leading global provider of business-driven information technology consulting and software solutions. For more than a decade, we've been helping organizations effectively use technology to achieve strategic business goals. Our unique solution portfolio enables our customers to reduce costs, increase flexibility, strengthen security, ensure compliance and improve efficiency.

We apply our structured methodologies, strategic alliances and diverse industry experience to deliver in-depth analyses and implement custom solutions aimed at driving business growth. Our consultants hold over 1,100 certifications in 96 categories and our KnowledgeNet database gives them access to over 15 years worth of intellectual property, solutions and proven techniques in an easily-searchable format. Our customers include global enterprises and service providers in all major industries, including telecommunications, financial services, retail, pharmaceutical/ healthcare, manufacturing, government and travel and transportation.

For additional information, please visit www.ins.com or contact INS at 1-888-767-2788 in the U.S., 44 (0) 1628 503000 in Europe, 65 6549 7188 Asia, or 1-408-330-2700 worldwide.

INS is a trademark of International Network Services, Inc. All other products or services mentioned are the trademark, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners.