Other Notes and Domino tools analyze the design of the database and return inventory lists describing design elements.  The Rationalizer starts with time as the key factor in our analysis.  When you add time to the analysis, specifically, how current is your organizational information, how often do users access it, and what methods do they use for access, you gain a deeper understanding of how data flows in your organization by how it passes though your Notes and Domino environment. 

The Rationalizer Suite quickly and easily answers Notes and Domino environment questions like these :

• How much information is in there? 

• How current/valuable is the information?

• What does this application do?

• How can we integrate this information with our other systems?

• How do we secure this application?

• How do we archive it?

• How much can we archive?

• How do we back it up?

• What information are people using?

• How much information is unused and wasting IT resources?

• What do we need to keep and what can we throw away?

When time is added to traditional environmental analysis, you also gain a clearer understanding of how your information is really used and how your applications really work.  Typically, only a small part of application data and information is valuable to an organization at any point in time.  The Rationalizer Suite helps you identify and prioritize your most valuable applications, data and design elements, and determine support and migration costs for those applications.  This can significantly reduce efforts and cost when performing:

• Server upgrades and consolidations
• Software upgrades, migrations and integration
• Regulatory reviews and reporting
• Software Configuration Management (SCM) and Capability Maturity Model (CMM) reviews

There are two main components in the Rationalizer suite – The Application Rationalizer and the Design Rationalizer.  The Application Rationalizer automatically analyzes your data at an application level and reports on which applications are currently used and which have little or no user activity.  The automatically collected information can be reviewed and enhanced with information about application details, documentation, support and funding information.  This produces a complete Lotus Notes - based inventory of all of your applications in one central location that can be replicated and shared with your IT team and users. There are also tools built-in to handle Notes design template management, SCM/CMM regulatory requirements and to automate migration during server consolidation, moves, hardware and software upgrades, and migrations to other platforms.  Please contact us or see our Rationalizer Datasheet for more Details.

The Design Rationalizer automatically analyzes all of your application documents and organizes them based on user-defined date periods, then reports on which design elements (Forms, Subforms, Views, Agents, Script Libraries, etc.) are used by the documents in each pre - defined date period.  This can help you prioritize documents and design elements that are really needed in applications vs. those that can be ignored or archived.  Please contact us or see our  Rationalizer Datasheet for more Details.

The Design Rationalizer can be configured to review all of the applications defined in the Application Rationalizer or can be used as a stand-alone tool on one or more Lotus Notes and Domino applications. Both products can be sold separately. Please contact us for details regarding pricing and availability.