Morgan Stanley: "Why not use workflow?"
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 10:13a Eugen Tarnow At Legaltech in New York last month, Joe Steffan, Executive Director - Regulatory, of Morgan Stanley gave a talk on e-discovery. At the end he noted that e-discovery systems perhaps should include wo ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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My Apologies
Sat, Feb 25th 2012 1:11p Eugen Tarnow I have received a lot of feedback on my blog postings and on my deletions of comments and as a result I will change both. 1. I will no longer block any comments and all previous IP address blocks ha ... [read] Keywords:
"Smarter Planet" not too big in Sweden
Mon, Feb 20th 2012 11:12a Eugen Tarnow The "Smarter Planet" marketing effort presumably includes the full planet. While the Swedish equivalent "En Smartare Planet" does exist it does not seem too big. A senior IT worker had never heard o ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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The quota problem
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 11:12a Eugen Tarnow Many companies use email quotas, including, I am told, IBM. While quotas seem tempting - getting end users to limit storage needs by simply entering numbers from the administrator client - it is typ ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Is Smarter Planet Smart for Lotus Notes?
Thu, Feb 9th 2012 11:12a Eugen Tarnow It is no secret that IBM has been moving in a very certain marketing direction over the past decade. Not putting much effort (possibly no effort) into advertising its products like Lotus Notes, IBM pr ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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LegalTech: Two legal worries about the cloud
Wed, Feb 1st 2012 10:12a Eugen Tarnow We attended LegalTech on Monday and lawyers voiced two concerns about the cloud: 1. The cloud data can be disassembled and stored in many different countries. When time comes for e-discovery or ma ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Is corporate email a "commodity"?
Mon, Jan 30th 2012 9:11a Eugen Tarnow At Lotusphere the implicit message seemed to be that corporate email is a "commodity". This word was used by sales people as well as customers. The more I think about it the more perplexed I get. ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Big customer to fight for!
Wed, Jan 18th 2012 1:12p Eugen Tarnow The World Bank is thinking of leaving Notes. Time for us all to convince them to stay! The ReduceMail Pro team is very excited give our full attention to all the customers who stay with Notes. Wan ... [read] Keywords: notes
Lotusphere 2012 Begins!
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 7:12p Eugen Tarnow The Opening Reception for Lotusphere 2012 kicked-off tonight with the Lotusphere Street Fair: We had a great time seeing old friends and colleagues, as well as meeting many new people. We look f ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Just a few of the many great Lotusphere posts…
Thu, Jan 5th 2012 2:11p Eugen Tarnow Lotusphere 2012 is truly just around the corner, which means all of us here at ReduceMail Pro are making our final plans and prep for the trip down to sunny Florida. If you’ll be at Lotusphere, let’s ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
When Too Much Email is... Just Too Much
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 10:12a Eugen Tarnow Those of us who work as Lotus Notes administrators and developers are thinking, breathing, living email every day. What emails need to be archived? Retrieved? Deleted? Monitored? But at what point ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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The True Cost of E-Discovery – Are Prices too High?
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 8:13a Eugen Tarnow Law.com recently had an article called “The Dark Side of E-Discovery Pricing,” which concluded that “Pricing is a real problem and everybody knows it.” In addition to the issue of e-Discovery compan ... [read] Keywords:
Get the lawyers off your back
Tue, Nov 8th 2011 7:11a Eugen Tarnow In this day and age where productivity is king, it is not rare at all to find an overworked white-collar worker. You may be one of them. Sure, in all professions, there are some who get by doing very ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Early Case Assessment and E-Discovery
Tue, Nov 1st 2011 9:12a Eugen Tarnow Imagine for a moment that your organization is being sued. The lawsuit turns out to be frivolous, but the smoking-gun document proving that fact is buried in an email somewhere throughout the Lotus No ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Some Companies Moving Back to Notes
Tue, Aug 9th 2011 3:17p Eugen Tarnow This fine blog post written by a Lotus Notes professional says a lot. I’ll sum it up in a few words: Lotus Notes has unique, broad capabilities, and some of the companies that migrated away are return ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Youth Indoctrination by Google
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 1:10p Eugen Tarnow Recent news: Harvard chose Google to be its primary email provider. I see two concerns. First, assuming the worst, does Google have any way of accessing all the valuable intellectual property that H ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Kill-It-Dead Deletions
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 9:21a Eugen Tarnow Lotus Notes has two native deletions. There are soft deletions in which a user still has a window of time to retrieve a document after they delete it. Then, there are hard deletions, which are pretty ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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E-Discovery-A Basic Guide for IT
Tue, Jul 12th 2011 1:39p Eugen Tarnow ReduceMail Pro has a free ebook (see our other free ebook, Justifying Mail Management to Management), which we would like you to see. It is called E-Discovery-A Basic Guide for IT and explains the ins ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Justifying Mail Management to Management
Fri, Jul 8th 2011 8:41a Eugen Tarnow Take a look at ReduceMail Pro’s free ebook about a Lotus Notes administrator who tells his manager about the benefits of their company acquiring a mail management solution in order to justify mail man ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Why Archive Notes Mail?
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 2:44p Eugen Tarnow Not every company that uses Lotus Notes takes full advantage of email archiving, even though archiving provides tangible benefits. When email lingers in full-form in mailfiles, the aggregate of those ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Empower the Legal Staff
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 8:23a Eugen Tarnow IT guys tend to be very knowledgeable. They tend to be experts. That expertise is of course in information technology, their professional field. You wouldn’t expect them to know all the ins and outs o ... [read] Keywords:
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The Notes Admin 3
Fri, Jun 24th 2011 5:03a Eugen Tarnow Read The Notes Admin and The Notes Admin 2, if you have not already. Isaac B. Markowitz ran Reducemail Pro Archive throughout the months after his company acquired Reducemail Pro, and in doing so, I ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Prevent E-Discovery Disaster
Tue, Jun 14th 2011 11:46a Eugen Tarnow British Petroleum (BP), not a Lotus Notes house, but home to a lot of electronic data, will face a massive and challenging e-discovery because of lawsuits pertaining to last year’s catastrophic oil sp ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Notes Admin 2
Fri, Jun 3rd 2011 9:01a Eugen Tarnow Isaac B. Markowitz sat his desk, examining the new Lotus Notes discovery and Lotus Notes archiving solutions from Reducemail Pro, when he was blinded by flash of pulsating color. All of the sudden, th ... [read] Keywords: admin
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The Notes Admin
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 8:57a Eugen Tarnow Isaac B. Markowitz was the Lotus Notes administrator extraordinaire where he worked; he was in charge of just about everything relating to the system. He was a pro, though, having been familiar with a ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Programmers can make it in the US again?
Tue, May 24th 2011 4:25p Eugen Tarnow Finally, US programmers may not have to work for Indian salaries anymore! A Texas grand jury is investigating InfoSys’s use of B-1 visas. I have seen Indian programmers and administrators come into ... [read] Keywords:
Thoughts on the History of Lotus Notes
Mon, May 16th 2011 9:02a Eugen Tarnow IBM provides here a rather technical account of Lotus Notes’s history that stops at version 8. In reading through this fascinating, though dry, work of scholarship, I encountered some interesting fact ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM is starting to fight back?
Wed, May 11th 2011 10:01a Eugen Tarnow IBM may be starting to fight back against Microsoft's grab of the messaging market. At a lightly attended "Get Social Roadshow" event in New York, the IBM presenter told me that neither 3M nor Deutsch ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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