Regardless of how your users are configured today,

upgrade and standardize with just a few clicks!

 

IBM Lotus Notes client upgrades are costly and complicated due to the large variety of different IBM Lotus Notes configurations across your user base. Some users have basic clients, other have standard, some have network based data directories, while others have local data drives with any number of local replicas. And while the majority of your Notes installs reside in a standard directory, many of  your users have program and data directories in any place imaginable.

 

Enter the MarvelClient Upgrade Module!

 

With MarvelClient Upgrade, the headache and cost is taken out of client upgrades:

 

• First, our integrated MarvelClient Analyze module analyzes the entire Lotus Notes client environment to spot outdated local replicas, wrong location documents, missing icons, replicas pointing to the wrong server, missing templates, embedded Sametime version, signatures, hardware specs and current software installed etc. This inventory is updated in "real time" so there is never a chance that actions are taken based on outdated information.

 

• Once you know how your clients are actually configured, you can properly plan your Notes client upgrade while also identifying other current client problems such as mis-configured location and connection documents. And since MarvelClient Analyze also does a software and hardware inventory, you can even identify users who don't yet meet the required disk space or memory requirements.

 

• MarvelClient Manage and Migrate can then use the Analysis results to fix current Notes client problems, deploy proper templates, run local maintenance, fix location documents etc. This greatly reduces the number of problems that can happen during an upgrade, and it also reduces the disk space requirements on local clients and makes Notes up to 70% faster.

 

• Deploy even the biggest upgrade files with our customizable SmartFile Downloader which throttles file deployment to users over time without impacting their day to day productivity or the company's bandwidth. While d eploying a large software package to all users at once could be devastating to the network, and deploying the wrong package to the wrong user would cause end user downtime, MarvelClient Upgrade delivers the right package to the right user without overloading your network.

 

• Run any agent or program to properly upgrade anyone from any Notes version/client/configuration to any Notes version/client/configuration including Ecplipse components!

 

• MarvelClient Upgrade always work transparently in the background, and the only prompt your users will get during their upgrade is the "Do you wish to upgrade your Lotus Notes client right now" message. This prompt gives the user flexibility to upgrade when convenient and can be configured to give a user a configurable number of chances to say "NO" before being forced to upgrade.

 

• Our Upgrade module can easily handle single to multi-user upgrades, basic to standard upgrades, Eclipse component and, Sametime embedded upgrades as well as data directory migrations/standardizations. Since MC knows what all users have installed and how they're configured, all that has to be setup is the desired end result.

 

• Upgrade without worry as your users Notes configurations are always backed up and end users will always find their icons, toolbars, sidebar plug-ins and bookmarks where they expect them.

 

• Install fix packs, language packs, Sametime embedded versions and other software with MarvelClient Upgrade module without loads of unhappy end users with upgrade or install failures and a swamped Help desk.

 

• Extend the upgrade capabilities of your existing Windows login scripts, Tivoli, SMS or ZENworks! While these products are fantastic solutions for general software deployment, they are not "Notes aware". Let MarvelClient can do all the "Notes work" necessary during client deployment, such as creating and pre-populating a local address book, personalizing the address book, bookmarks desktop and more.