Microsoft Awards Satsuma Partner CASAHL   

CASAHL Technology, Inc., Satsuma's Lotus Notes to SharePoint migration partner, has been announced as the 2010 Microsoft Partner Awards Notes Migration Partner of the Year.  CASAHL was chosen out of an internation field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

Awards are presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 entrants worldwide. CASAHL was recognised as Notes Migration Partner of the Year for its superior technology and innovation. The Notes Migration Partner of the Year Award honours partners who have attained excellence in helping their customers migrate from IBM Lotus Notes to a comprehensive solution using Exchange Server, Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Office. This award recognises CASAHL for effectively assessing their customers’ business challenges, articulating the business value of a migration, efficiently migrating their customer environments, and preserving and improving IT-driven business processes.

“A complete understanding of the application landscape is vital before any migration is embarked on,” states Alex Argy, General Manager of Satsuma Solutions, a CASAHL Business Partner in Australia, “and the CASAHL Lotus Notes Application Analyser allows us to quickly analyse the Notes/Domino environment, providing our clients with valuable information about the size and complexity of each migration task before we commence any migration work. CASAHL ecKnowledge is then able to automate the migration of Lotus Notes content and structure, retaining data formats, attachments, meta-data, and complicated link relationships.”

Both Microsoft and CASAHL recognise that migration tools alone are not the panacea to all migration challenges, and must be partnered with experienced consultancy and a sound knowledge of both environments for best results.
“There is an obvious opportunity to enhance the user experience, introduce superior functionality and increase worker productivity – a valuable source of ROI when migrating to a new environment. The complexity of the challenge is such that organisations are tempted to settle for similar functionality in different packaging and call it a successful migration. We are finding instead that our CASAHL partnership is helping us to create measurable efficiencies during the migration, giving us time and space to define and create real strategic benefits in the new environment,” explains Argy.