it was really easy to use and the result was great. It was also easy to try different configurations. Also easy to set up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
cant say I found anything to dislike- it worked well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My company had a large number of databases that had to be migrated from Lotus Notes to both SharePoint document repositories and to traditional websites. The Swing software handled both cases as advertised. The import/export process guides you through the entire process.
I think that a critical success factor for our migration was both Swing's customer and technical support. I reached out to both a couple of times and without fail Swing personnel responded within a business day.
My company did a "deep dive" product comparison analysis and Swing rated higher than the 2 other competitor products, even though one of them was much faster than Swing's product. The tradeoff was that Swing's translations were many times more accurate than the competitors. We are a health insurance company, so accuracy of information is always very critical.
If any potential customer would like to talk to me about our migration efforts, I would be more than willing to talk to them about our technical migration process. In all honesty, other than the "processing run rate," Swing is hands-down the best product out there for migrating Lotus Notes databases into SharePoint document libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'm sure a lot of processing is going on behind the scenes, but to be very honest, the entire import/export process seems to be exceedingly slow. We analyzed our "processing run rates" and it seems that the Swing software averaged about 900 to 1300 documents per hour. When you're having to export dozens and dozens of Lotus Notes databases, with literally many hundreds of thousands of documents, it takes a long time (many man and compute months). When we were deep into our migration we had myself (with 3 VDI machines) and 2 additional contractors (each with either 3 or 4 VDI machines) running non-stop for days at a time.
Having said that, any potential customer should also review what I liked about the Swing competitor, in comparison to competing products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It exports the Notes document with all attachments into a PDF Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
have nothing to criticize about this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We had to migrate almost half a million records from Lotus Notes for one of the biggest councils in Europe, and Seascape performed the task easily. The product was quick to install and setup, with an intuitive interface to setup your connections to DB's and Sharepoint sites, as well as what filters/conditions you want to apply. The customer support was brilliant and came back with responses quickly as well as the helpful online documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There was nothing to dislike about this product or the service from the team, I just wish we had purchased it sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
it's easy to use and and easy to implement in environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I couldn't find any disadvantages when I used Seascape for Notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The price was the main reason for the first tests with Seascape, because it was unbeatable! It's pretty easy to get started and the Seascape staff are incredibly quick and helpful. Together with these employees, I was able to solve all problems (including self-inflicted ones) very quickly. All in all, Seascape made my work so much easier that we were able to successfully migrate our old Notes databases to Sharepoint quite quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I only found out about two functions at the end (metadata is deactivated by default and set note to HTML to avoid unsightly text formatting), which I could have been made aware of at the beginning. These functions would have made the work even easier. But if I had reported the problems at the beginning, I would have been helped immediately, as I am now. I just didn't think that the program could also fix these small problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use interface and simple to install. It works out of the box to create usable, static websites, with full search capabilities.
Customer support is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Can take a while to run on big databases (multi-GB). Some of our exports took a couple of days. Lots of memory and processors helped improve that.
Occasionally errored out on one complex database, but on restart was able to quickly catch up to where it stopped, without having to begin again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Compared to manually exporting & fixing up a CSV, then building an agent to export all attachments (and later build a Power Automate flow to reattach the files in SharePoint), using SWING's solution is dramatically faster.
Additionally, it was very simple to pilot an archive two ways: As a SharePoint List (more common for us) or as a Library (much easier to navigate in particular cases).
Even though Seascape is really built for Archiving data, there were a few instances where the I ended up rebuilding the Notes database process in SharePoint using the exported data. Using Seascape once again drastically sped up that process as well.
All around, this is a great tool which allows you pilot your exported data in multiple ways to "get it right" before moving forward with a full export / archive.
Seascape was also super easy to install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
At first there was a bit of a learning curve when it came to complex things like calculated fields. However, reaching out to SWING quickly resolved that issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It works so easily there is no big knowledge needed. Most of the application runs through. Only when there is a very large amount of data or a lot of non-standard use comes across, then some caution is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I do not have anything; it did what it said on the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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