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​Godiva graduates from Lotus Notes and saves $150,000 per year. Click here to read the case study
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Microsoft vs. IBM.
IBM offers limited products, like Symphony, that provide a fraction of the capabilities businesses have come to expect from modern enterprise solutions such as Microsoft Office. Notes users constantly complain of a poor user experience. and IBM’s patchwork of disparate platforms and solutions results in an unwelcome rise in cost and complexity.
 
Join the almost 20 million strong who have switched to Microsoft in the past few years and take advantage of our rich capabilities, reduction in costs, and the better total cost of ownership across our platform. Compare Microsoft to IBM and see why businesses worldwide are migrating from IBM Lotus products to the Microsoft productivity platform.
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  • Patchwork platforms
    ​IBM’s product strategy is based more on acquisition than on product development. As a result, they offer multiple platforms and solutions that create additional cost and confusion, not to mention the interoperability challenges of integrating on-premises solutions with the IBM cloud.
    More effective choices
    ​Microsoft Exchange gives you the choice of an on-premises deployment with Exchange Server 2010, a Microsoft Microsoft-hosted service with Exchange Online, or a seamless mix of both. And, our commitment to Software-plus-Services means you can decide when you want to take advantage of the flexibility and power of both without interrupting or changing your users' experience.
     
  • Limited capabilities
    ​IBM’s lack of coordination on customer requirements and end-user experience results in competitively limited products, such as Lotus Symphony, that provide a fraction of the capabilities customers expect from modern enterprise solutions like Microsoft Office.
    Greater productivity and anywhere access
    ​Microsoft’s delivery of the best productivity experience across PC, phone, and browser is made possible by a unified business collaboration platform, along with powerful capabilities delivered in familiar tools.
  • Chaotic user experience
    ​IBM’s mix of legacy systems, software acquisitions, and open-source software creates an inconsistent, chaotic user experience that raises training costs and increases time needed to do job-related tasks—e.g.,for example,. As just one example, users are forced to learn three different word processing interfaces across Notes, Symphony, and Quickr. 
    Richer user experience
    ​Microsoft gives users with a consistent and integrated experience across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployments, reducing your training costs and increasing efficiency.
  • Higher costs and complexity
    ​IBM’s approach creates considerable complexity and cost. Workers are burdened with inconsistent user experiences and are perplexed by which IBM product to use for a specific need. Application developers are forced to contend with different frameworks and programming models. And administrators are faced with managing unintegrated platform services that lack integration and as well as installing and maintaining overlapping software products.
    Lower cost, lower complexity
    ​Microsoft provides a single, interoperable, and optimized infrastructure, greater out-of-the-box functionality with on-premises or in-the-cloud choice, unified .NET extensibility, and an enormous skill pool, which enable overall reduced costs and increased productivity.
  • Innovation by acquisition
    ​IBM’s approach to innovation via acquisition results in disjointed, overlapping, partial solutions with inconsistent user experiences.
    Substantive innovation and a common architecture
    ​Microsoft has consistently demonstrated a commitment to a common architecture and sustained focus on substantive innovation. The foundational technologies in SharePoint 2010, for example, are the result of more than a decade of singular focus on a common underlying architecture, representing billions of dollars in software product research and development.


 

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