Location : Cleveland, OH
Took a day trip to New York City today. Before you say "cool," this is the day in a nutshell:
- Get up at 5:30 AM, leave house at 6:15 AM.
- Arrive airport at 6:50 AM for 8:30 AM flight to La Guardia.
- Arrive La Guardia, out of terminal, into a taxi for 20 minute drive to office (get to see Shea Stadium on right).
- Stay in office until 5:00 PM
- Taxi back to La Guardia for flight home. See Shea Stadium on the left.
- Arrive Cleveland at 9:00 PM. Home at 9:40 PM.
Why the title "Mini Lotusphere?" The office we visited was recently purchased by my client. They have always been a Notes shop (since R3.1). What does Domino do for them?
- It integrates with their accounting package so that when they enter new part numbers in a Domino database, a very short time later, those part numbers appear in the Accounting system.
- It integrates with their manufacturing system, creating bar coded packing lists, work orders, parts lists, and more.
- It passes information over to their website so that customers can track their orders.
- It creates Bill of Materials based on engineering drawings.
- It uses QuickPlace, so that customers can track their projects and, with web cams, the same customers can watch their materials being manufactured. Did I mention that some of these customers have facilities in several other countries, and they are adding information to a QuickPlace at all hours of the day? The Project Managers say that QuickPlace has made their jobs much, much easier since they don't have to go digging for information, they just look in the QuickPlace.
- It runs their ISO 9000 application.
- It populates their Oracle database, and the same Oracle database passes information back to Domino to populate Notes forms.
- It runs Sametime so that their customers can communicate with them in real time, from all over the world.
- They use an external Domino application that vendors are required to enter pricing and delivery information so that their "Just In Time" inventory is truly "just in time."
- Their Domino servers (running on Windows) are clustered, as they require very high availability. And it is highly available.
- It runs their fax system.
- They use a custom welcome page that is basically a portal into all of their core Domino databases.
- Oh, and it does their e-mail.
This office is one of the few places that I heard "I love Lotus Notes" about as much as I hear at Lotusphere. It was amazing to see the way they have integrated Lotus into their processes. It is truly a core business application.
Comment posted by Rory01/20/2006 08:32:33 AM
How come you didn't mention how the acquiring company is going to impose all their corporate rules on the New York company and ruin their competitive advantage?
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