According to a recent Gartner report, Microsoft continues to gain e-mail market share, and will hold approximately 70 percent of the worldwide commercial e-mail market by late 2009. Many businesses are considering moving to Microsoft platforms such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from their current platforms, including Lotus Notes. Quest Software has a set of tools designed to migrate mailboxes and applications off of Notes, and to help manage and rebuild applications in the new environment.

Quest's comprehensive set of solutions migrate and manage the data of organisations wishing to transition off Lotus Notes to a Microsoft platform.

Notes Migrator for Exchange allows migrations of multiple users from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 simultaneously. It also automates manual tasks, including mailbox creation and mail routing to simplify administration.

Notes Migrator for SharePoint provides direct migrations from Lotus Notes, QuickPlace and Domino.doc to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. It migrates all Notes data, including images, file attachments, OLE objects and rich text, ensuring all critical business data is preserved. New features include analytical capabilities for helping organisations discover and classify their Notes applications, as well as components for managing large migration projects and provisioning large volumes of SharePoint sites.

Development Studio for SharePoint helps organisations quickly rebuild Notes applications in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 without custom coding. This suite of Web parts assists in reconstructing Notes applications with a consistent look and feel as well as rich functionality, data integrity and security.

Quest Software and Avanade, a global IT consultancy, are working together to migrate organisations' mailboxes to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and applications to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Quest's Notes migration products, coupled with Avanade's ACA Messaging Migration Engine, help customers successfully plan, design, migrate and implement an Exchange and SharePoint solution. Following a migration, customers can leverage Quest and Avanade's collective expertise to develop a comprehensive deployment plan for their organisation.

"We are pleased to be working with one of the leading migration vendors in the market," says Tyson Hartman, vice president of Enterprise Technology Solutions for Avanade. "Through this partnership we can provide customers with best-of-breed migration tools and the technical expertise to transition away from Lotus Notes".