A Cost-Effective Approach for Migrating Enterprise Electronic Mail Systems

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

Emmanuel Omojokun¹  Adeyemi A Adekoya¹  Ephrem Eyob¹ 

[1] Virginia State University;

关键词: Mailbox;    migration;    Exchange 2003;    Messaging Software;    GroupWise;    email;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Electronic mail (E-mail) is one of the most utilized application software systems in modern-day organizations. The major messaging application programs used in the enterprise are IBM Lotus Notes also known as Domino, Microsoft Exchange Servers, and Novel GroupWise. For various reasons – such as high cost of maintenance, undeliverable e-mail issue and loss of attachments, companies find it necessary to either migrate to newer versions of their messaging software or to an entirely different software. In either case, the process must be carefully planned, well designed and properly implemented to avoid disaster. In this paper, we present a cost-effective approach for migrating a particular messaging software. The approach was implemented and tested for the migration of GroupWise 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003. We present our success story and lessons learned from the case. A six-week and one-year post migration system-audits indicated that the organization derived several benefits including significant cost savings as a result of this particular approach. Chief information/technology officers and e-mail administrators will benefit immensely from the "best practice" strategy hereby presented.

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