Pega Launches New AI Tool to Accelerate Lotus Notes Transformation

Notes to Blueprint helps enterprises quickly transform and retire outdated Lotus Notes applications

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company™, today announced the availability of Notes to Blueprint™ to help organizations quickly transform outdated legacy Lotus Notes applications into more efficient automated processes in the cloud. Combined with the AI design power of Pega Blueprint™, Notes to Blueprint lets enterprises understand their Lotus Notes estates, retire their broken workflows, and reimagine them faster and more effectively.

An estimated 34,000 organizations worldwide still rely on aging Lotus Notes and Domino deployments for core processes like approvals, claims, escalations, and document management. This contributes to the estimated $370 million wasted annually per company maintaining technical debt – resulting in decreased employee productivity, poor customer experiences, and lost resources. Yet modernization remains elusive as most lack basic visibility into how their deeply embedded Notes installations actually work: documentation is rarely available, logic is scattered across LotusScripts and other components, and proprietary Notes Storage Facility (NSF) data structures make unwinding these decades-old environments a complex, time-consuming challenge.

Based on assets recently acquired from legacy transformation solution provider Adopteq, Notes to Blueprint with Pega Blueprint empowers enterprises with the fastest and most comprehensive platform to transform Lotus Notes applications into modern, cloud-native workflows. The solution is available both as an end-to-end modernization solution through Pega premier partner Capgemini on AWS Marketplace, as well as a standalone tool available on Pega Marketplace. Now enterprises can leverage AI to accelerate every step of their Lotus Notes modernization process, letting them:

• Understand the full picture of their Lotus Notes estate: Notes to Blueprint securely analyzes Lotus Notes databases to generate a portfolio analysis – giving insight into the size, activity, complexity, and utility of their Lotus Notes applications. This lets enterprises uncover the full project scope, settling the stage for modernization.

• Extract trapped data and processes: Notes to Blueprint then scans proprietary NSF databases to build a comprehensive analysis of application functionality – including data structures and uncovered automations scattered across LotusScripts, forms, and agents.

• Reimagine collaboration experiences into automated workflows, fast: Import data and processes gleaned with Notes to Blueprint directly into Pega Blueprint, where design agents will reimagine previously scattered logic into fully orchestrated processes incorporating industry best practices, automations, and AI. Through Pega Blueprint, business and IT can quickly collaborate on further evolving and refining requirements for new cloud solutions.

• Accelerate data migration to fuel reporting, AI, and automation: Pega Blueprint automatically maps extracted document-centric data structures from Notes to Blueprint into new relational data models, which are immediately accessible as modern cloud integration APIs and data streams. This enables enterprises to unlock and scale previously trapped data across the enterprise.

• Eliminate expensive Lotus Notes operations and maintenance costs: Go-live fast with a new modern environment to Pega Cloud®, eliminating on-premise database infrastructure and operations while streamlining support, maintenance, and licensing.

Pega has partnered with Capgemini to simplify Lotus Notes transformation through a new comprehensive modernization solution available now on AWS Marketplace. The joint solution combines Notes to Blueprint and Pega Blueprint with Capgemini’s CAALM (AI-assisted Legacy Modernization) services and expertise – which includes data migration, validation, testing, and change management. This complete solution gives enterprises a holistic approach to transitioning off their Lotus Notes estates.

Notes to Blueprint is based on certain assets acquired earlier this month from Sweden-based Adopteq, a provider of enterprise legacy application transformation solutions. More specifically, Pega acquired InvestigatorPlus, which analyzes existing Lotus Notes installations, and MigratorPlus, which transfers legacy data from Lotus Notes onto more modern platforms. In addition, select Adopteq employees, including cofounders Viktor Jansson and Mats Jansson, will join Pega. Specific terms of the deal will not be disclosed.

Clients and partners can request access to Notes to Blueprint from Pega Marketplace, as a well as to the solution from Capgemini on AWS Marketplace. For more information, please visit www.pega.com/notestoblueprint.

Quotes & Commentary
“Legacy systems like Lotus Notes have become one of the biggest obstacles to enterprise agility,” said Damon Lockwood, vice president, intelligent automation strategy, Pega. “Transforming these deeply embedded systems can be extremely costly and time consuming while more nimble competitors lap them in the market. By combining AI-powered design with advanced migration services, Pega gives organizations a faster, more reliable way to modernize collaboration and unlock the full potential of digital transformation.”

“Pega has partnered with Capgemini to simplify Lotus Notes transformation through a new comprehensive modernization solution available now on AWS Marketplace,” said Stephan Kolarik, global vice president, digital customer experience, Capgemini. “The joint solution combines Notes to Blueprint and Pega Blueprint with Capgemini’s CAALM (AI-assisted Legacy Modernization) services and expertise – which includes data migration, validation, testing, and change management. This complete solution gives enterprises a holistic approach to reducing dependency on their legacy estates.”

Supporting Resources

• Background: Lotus Notes modernization on Pega
• Get it: Notes to Blueprint on Pega Marketplace
• Try it: Pega Blueprint
• Solution: AI-powered Lotus Notes legacy transformation with AWS
• Transformation: Rethink, reimagine, really retire with Pega
• Whitepaper: Break free from legacy
• Research: Tech Debt costs enterprises $370 million+ per year

About Pegasystems
Pega is The Enterprise Transformation Company that helps organizations Build for Change® with enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation. Many of the world’s most influential businesses rely on our platform to solve their most pressing challenges, from personalizing engagement to automating service to streamlining operations. Since 1983, we’ve built our scalable and flexible architecture to help enterprises meet today’s customer demands while continuously transforming for tomorrow. For more information on Pega (NASDAQ: PEGA), visit www.pega.com.

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