8base vs. HCL Domino

Although we are not a startup and 8BASE allows our backend to be production-ready instantly and thus better support and management of our hardware and scale are automatically progressive with our business. It leaves us more time for hardware development. Recommending to consider acquiring both for all types of companies.

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Domino is best in medium-sized businesses of 20-100 employees. It's too complicated to implement in very small companies unless you have good external resources. It scales up very well for larger companies but the pressures of users wanting particular "brand-name" software can become difficult. If you want a restricted "extranet/portal" system for a limited set of members it's a great system, particularly if you add a Domino CRM on top. Unlike Microsoft, you never have to resort to command-line tools, like PowerShell, in Domino to get things done.

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• Non-technical people can use accessible software.
• Cost
• The simple set up.

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• Domino support for policy-based user registration and deployment eases end-user creation.
• User access to databases is simplified via group membership and defined roles.
• Email replication to clustered servers is simplified through connection/replication documents stored centralized address book
• Group calendaring enabled at client level controls.

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• the UI is complex to handle at first.
• Lags in many applications.

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• User interface needs to be modernised.

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We use SharePoint, SQL and Teams but only for the things that they excel in. For example, we use teams for small team interactions (including external participants). We use teams for meetings too. We've discovered that Teams collaboration is not as full-functional as Domino and more importantly, that our members (financial services) do not trust the Open Office365 cloud. SharePoint and Team collaborative features are often blocked in our member organizations. Domino is much easier to identify and unblock at the firewall level. It's much easier to restrict collaboration to approved options in Domino.

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• It is stable in its security.
• Simple development has allowed us to handle less wasted time.
• Short-term goals are easily met.

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• The immediate impact on my organization as a non-profit is cost. Enterprise pricing for a Domino solution is exponentially more inexpensive than more popular applications.
• Of the most obvious impacts is user familiarity. Given a vast majority of the employment pool having familiarity with MS products, orienting new employees to Domino\Notes is burdensome. Adoption is slow and resistance is high.
• Hiring Domino administrators and developers is increasingly challenging.
• The recent sale of the Domino platform away from IBM is concerning.

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