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This Lotus Award category recognizes a Business Partner who has developed an effective solution for a not-for-profit, environmental or humanitarian effort or in support of broader civic participation. The AngelFlight Mission Control system is a Notes/Domino solution developed and implemented by Lotus 911 that allows the nonprofit Angel Flight network to coordinate flight plans for private pilots to take sick children for urgent medical care in locations they can't otherwise reach. The system was created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when FEMA requested assistance in moving medical supplies and equipment. The volunteers and the pilots of Angel Flight who donate their time and resources to this effort are the real winners here and we are proud to help them in their efforts. |
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Red Hat, Inc. has named Lotus 911 as a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner, specializing in implementing Lotus Notes/Domino and its extended family of products on the RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop and Server operating systems. "We are seeing significant performance gains over any of the Microsoft Windows operating systems running the same processes on the same hardware," said Scott Hooks, VP of Services for Lotus 911. Lotus 911 provides professional upgrade, migration, consolidation, and performance optimization services for Lotus software on Red Hat Linux in addition to application development, training, premium support, and complete hosting services for Lotus solutions to everything from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. We are able to present a compelling case for migrating to Linux servers in even small to medium-sized businesses, and can also assist with implementing Linux desktop with Lotus Notes 8 and its built-in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation suite for businesses that want to eradicate Microsoft from their entire environment. “Reaching out to small and medium size company’s shows how dedicated Red Hat is to ensuring the successful implementation and integration of their products into the marketplace by providing their Advance Business Partners with real, tangible assistance” states Jimmy Bracco, General Manager of Lotus 911. Contact Lotus 911 today at 877-LOTUS911 for more information. |
| Lotus 911, the leader in professional Lotus services, is an associate sponser at Lotusphere 2008. The event is being held January 20-25, 2008 at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Hotes in Orlando, FL. Please stop by our Booths 235-236 for amazing demos, exciting announcements, and free giveaways. Also, be sure to look for Lotus 911 consultants leading Best Practice sessions throughout the event. |
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| Lotus911 is pleased to announce that we have been selected by IBM as Notes 8 Design Partner. As a key member of this elite group of customers and select business partners, Lotus911 has had unprecented access to Notes 8 and beyond as we work directly with core developers at IBM to steer future releases. This effort will provide Lotus911 with market-leading experience in the design and implementation of Lotus’ newest innovations. We are not at liberty to tell you what features may or may not be included, but we can say that we have been running the latest software internally for months, and it is a truly exciting and groundbreaking shift. Stop by the Lotus 911 booth (#235) at Lotusphere 2008 for demonstration or even some hands on experience with the latest build. |
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| Angel Flight of Georgia provides free air transportation for people that have a medical need that can’t be filled in their local area. They believe that the cost of travel should never stand in the way of receiving medical care, and therefore take flight to get people to the hope of lifesaving treatment at no cost to the family. Missions include routine treatment flights, compassionate care, and others referred to us by healthcare providers. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, demands on Angel Flight skyrocketed exponentially. FEMA directors approached Angel Flight following the category 4 hurricane with a request for an increased frequency of flights, to including not only organized transport of patients but also medical supplies and equipment. This request increased Angel Flights aviation load from an average of 3 flights/week prior to the hurricane, to an amazing 60 flights/week following the destruction in southern US. It was following this development, and during the outpouring of support in the region, that IBM Atlanta contacted Lotus 911 and Ascendant Technology with a request to assist with the design and implementation of a Lotus Domino based solution. Together Ascendant Technology and Lotus 911 rapidly developed and implemented an application that created a donation center, provided access for patients to request transportation and for pilots to sign up to donate their time and services to the mission. Prior to this portal, the system was very inefficient and all the processes were handled manually, which allowed for easy error and created great disorganization. By automating the system with Lotus Notes/Domino, Angel Flight was able to provide a greater number of flights, allowing them to aid a greater number of patients in their treatment. Over the past 3 years, Lotus 911 has continued to work with Angel Flight to expand the system, provide further automation, and improve usability. All the patient intake information, physician verification/approval, pilot/plane assignments, departure and destination facility information, mission coordination and post mission close out information is captured, compiled and stored in the database. A standard workflow process has been implemented to ensure consistency independent of the staff or volunteer compiling the patient intake information and creating the mission packages. All pilot, aircraft, destination and departure facilities, patient and physical contact information is stored and index for future re-use. .Mission packages are created and sent to the pilot for the completion of the mission. The new system allowed the team to create new missions in 1/8th of the time as the manual process and the error rate has been reduced by a factor of 10! The existing team can now handle 6 times as many missions with the same staff and is now ready to handle the next crisis. In addition, the system is now being deployed to other regional Angel Flight centers. |
One of the greatest strengths of Lotus software is its ability to rapidly deploy applications that automate business processes such as workflow and approval to deliver immediate business value, but knowing which processes deliver the most value is often elusive to businesses. Using a combination of proven methodoligies, Lotus 911 can work with key stakeholders at any level of business to document your business processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement solutions as a complete turnkey engagement. In as little as one to two weeks, you could have a fully implemented business application that is customized to your business processes and can be easily extended and/or integrated with other systems or processes. Whether your business is 9 people or 90,000, we guarantee we can identify opportunities for improvement. Contact us to find out how we can help you achieve immediate value with minimal investment.
Lotus 911 can provide complete outsourced administration of your Lotus environment for less than half the cost of your current system administrators, freeing them up to perform other business critical tasks. We can even move your environment to our fully-redundant, state-of-the-art data center and monitor performance 24 x 7 x 365 to ensure that you benefit from maximum uptime with none of the burden.
Because of our status as a Premier IBM Business Partner, we are authorized to sell and renew IBM and Lotus software licenses for significant discounts even beyond the supposed clearing house software vendors. We can beat any price. If you are buying your IBM/Lotus licenses anywhere else, you are paying too much. It's that simple. In addition, many organizations are purchasing licenses that they don't actually need, or worse, are not licensing what they should. Contact us to find out how to not only ensure that you are licensing the software most effectively, but not paying more than you should.
Pressure to migrate to a competitive platform can come from a variety of sources: executive leadership, line-of-business management, end users, customers, business partners, and sometimes just slick software sales people. The truth is that migrating away from Lotus is typically not financially justified if evaluated objectively. Lotus software is the strongest collaboration & communications solution in the world and when properly leveraged, it costs lower than the competition. Factors such as poorly designed applications, lack of end user or support staff training, not taking advantage of the latest product features, inefficient server configuration, ineffective security policies, over-licensing the software, or simply not understanding how to better leverage the investments you have already made are all common causes of the case for migration, but are far more easily corrected than migrating to a different platform. Lotus 911 will meet with your executive team to listen to the reasons you may be considering a migration and at the very least help you understand the alternatives.