As Notes turns 25 we look at the future for this Rapid Application Development Platform. Notes has been pronounced dead by many over the years and yet it still lives on. In this session we look at other technologies that have lived on or suddenly died out to find clues on what the future may hold for Notes.

1. Lotus Notes
Live Long and Prosper
Peter Presnell
CEO

2. Technology Trends

4. Mainframe
A mainframe has one of the worst price/performance ratios of any
product or technology in any industry.

5. Slam dunk to replace mainframes with
faster, smaller, cheaper servers?

6. COBOL (circa 1959)
55 Years

7. COBOL is not modern

8. 80% of daily business transactions are still
processed in COBOL* IT Modernization: The Changing COBOL Market Could Affect Your Decision – Gartner Group, 8 August 2008

9. One in four universities teach COBOL
* Bridging the COBOL skills gap – Micro Focus, 2013

10. Why?
High barriers to entry
High barriers to exit

11. Enterprise Apps: Barriers to entry high

12. 1980: It was the ONLY choice

13. Enterprise Apps: Barriers to exit high

14. 170 billion lines of code
* IT Modernization: The Changing COBOL Market Could Affect Your Decision – Gartner Group, 8 August 2008

15. That’s a lot of bitcoins….

16. And they just keep going

17. The Risk Of Failure Is High
31% of projects are cancelled before completed
53% of projects will cost 189% of their original costs
* Choas Report – Standish Group

18. Businesses will rely on COBOL for another
ten to twenty years*
* Bridging the COBOL skills gap – Micro Focus, 2013

19. * Bridging the COBOL skills gap – Micro Focus, 2013
Businesses will rely on COBOL for another
ten to twenty years*

20. Blackberry

21. A once thriving company

22. Suddenly looked like this…..

23. Mobile: Barriers to entry low

24. No longer just a business device

25. Ubiquitous device

26. Everybody has one

27. I don’t need multiple phones!

28. Mobile: Barriers to exit low

29. We replace our phones every two years

30. Soon everyone was using something else

32. Notes will soon turn 25
1989 - 20143

33. What does the future hold?

34. Notes Mail

35. Messaging: Barriers to exit low

36. Current messaging

37. File store

38. 30-day transition period

39. Notes Applications

40. SMA: Barriers to entry Low

41. Domino Designer on every desk

42. Easy to learn and deploy

43. Handle any problem

44. The most successful SMA platform ever!
• 50,000 companies
• 200 applications (avg)
• 10 million applications

45. Apple’s app store reached 1 million applications in
October 2013

46. And the code….
5,000 lines per application x
10 million applications =
50 billion lines of code

47. SMA: Barriers to exit are High

48. Cost
200 applications x
$20,000 per application =
$4 million investment
10 million applications x
$20,000 per application =
$200 billion investment

49. Time
IBM XPages:
200 applications x
5 weeks per application = 20 years
i.e. Team of 4 developers 5 years

50. Time
Platform migration:
200 applications x
3 months per application = 50 years
i.e. Large team of consultants forever

51. Risk
Cost Overruns
Project Delays
Lack Of Documentation
Business Interruptions
Data Migration Issues
Project Failure

52. Implications

53. Notes applications are NOT going away!

54. Think 10+ years

55. Business needs are not frozen

56. The expectation gap Is growing

57. Adding modern features delivers
additional business value

58. Access applications anywhere, anytime

59. Notes Client

60. Notes is web 2.0

61. Notes is mobile

62. Keeping your employees happy

63. Keeping your business profitable

64. A sustained investment in the platform
Maintenance
Latest Version of Domino Always
Training
Web Enablement: XPages
Mobile Access: XPages
Social Capabilities: SBT

65. A sustained investment in the platform
Maintenance
Latest Version of Domino Always
Training
Web Enablement: XPages
Mobile Access: XPages
Social Capabilities: SBT
Live long and prosper