It was great to see Quest go public yesterday with their plans to include an application assessment capability in the next release of Notes Migrator for SharePoint.
We've seen some early previews of this capability through the Avanade/Accenture/Quest alliance that has existed for many years in the Lotus Notes migration space and are currently waiting to get our hands on the bits so we can "test it in anger" with some early customers.
An excerpt from Steve Walch's blog:
The first thing to clarify is that there is really not a separate analysis tool. Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.0 will contain extensive features for conducting pre-migration assessments (i.e., it will be an “analysis tool” as well as a “migration project management tool” and, of course, a “content migration tool”).
In the analysis area specifically, Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.0 will be able to…
- Discover Notes Databases across all servers in all locations
- Classify Applications according to Technical or Business attributes
- Analyze Application Usage to identify unused applications
- Analyze Design Complexity and deviations from standard templates
- Analyze Data Complexity and identify content migration needs
- Extract QuickPlace room hierarchies and Domino.Doc cabinet organization
We will be demonstrating this new version at our Tech·Ed IT Pro Booth # 1446 [link] and are planning on making an alpha or beta version available to key partners and customers by the end of June. We do not have a final release schedule at this time.
Original post can be found here: http://notes2sharepoint.org/archive/2008/05/29/when-is-quest-going-to-deliver-an-analysis-tool.aspx