Strategic Consulting for Enterprise Information Systems

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Technotics Projects: For a Global Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company

  • Consolidate Domino Servers onto a larger, more robust platform
  • Consolidate Domino Domains from five to one
  • Upgrade Notes clients and Domino servers from to 4.x and 5.x to Release 6

Background with client - a long relationship

Andy Pedisich's first project with Lotus Notes at this east coast pharmaceutical firm was a Notes V2.1.to V3.0 upgrade in the early 90s. Client wanted proof that V2.1 applications and mail clients would survive the upgrade to 3.0. They called on Andy and Technotics to build a test lab and develop testing/installation/upgrade procedures which ensured the project's success.

Since then, Andy has seen this firm through upgrades from variations of V3 to multiple versions of R4, to R5.03, R5.05, R5.0.6a, 5.0.10 and finally to Lotus ND6. Andy was responsible for the Domino Directory, the Domino Server Design and was third tier support for the server and end user environments.

Andy has also designed and implemented their Microsoft's Internet Information Servers, designed strategic disaster recovery plans for the Lotus Domino server environment, and provided strategy for the implementation of the MS Exchange Lotus Notes Connector which synchronizes directories and allows mail to flow between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange.

Andy also had the senior strategic planning role in a project to consolidate hundreds of distributed, multi-domain WIntel32 based Domino servers down to 12 Model 840 IBM iSeries systems strategically located in 4 data centers in the US and UK. The entire clustered server environment has been upgraded to Notes/Domino 6 and will support over 100,000 users and 10,000 Notes applications all over the globe.

Andy is currently training Administrators and Developers in Lotus Notes/Domino R7 in preparation for their Upgrade Project.

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