Domino Delivers Stability and Reliability, but for How Long?
July 05, 2019
Domino Delivers Stability and Reliability, but for How Long?
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Domino
Domino is used across our entire international organization. Domino/Notes is used as an email, collaboration, and messaging solution as well as a simple database platform, and Intranet/internet web-based email. Domino's database platform facilitates data sharing and access control for divisional, territorial and organization-wide users.
- 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.
- I am not a fan of the Domino ID for authentication purposes. Some Admins appreciate this feature, but ID aging, updating and management issues are burdensome.
- Integrations with current available software applications as a result of lower Domino adoption rates.
- Administration tools are somewhat dated and clunky. Even with updates and patches, the Domino administrator console hasn't changed in years.
- 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.
Having administered Domino right out of tech school I have very limited experience with other platforms. Realizing that Exchange is the de facto solution used by the rest of the universe, and now O365\Azure to eliminate on-prem data centers the future of direct platform administration is numbered. I lack the experience to usefully comment on or compare other products.