IBM Notes and Domino is an advanced platform for hosting social business applications.

It delivers scalable, security-rich applications at a low cost, helping you improve productivity, accelerate operations and enhance decision-making.

With the IBM Notes Database Connector, users have the ability to find content stored in Notes databases using various search engines.  Security defined within IBM Notes is automatically reflected in the search experience, which ensures that users see content for which they are authorized. Ultimately, users can find everything they need in one place.

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The connector supports both full crawls and incremental crawls:

  • Full crawls request and index all desired content from Notes databases
  • Incremental crawls request and index only content which has changed since the last crawl

Our IBM Notes Database Connector addresses key requirements that are challenging to implement through custom solutions:

  • Indexes every desired item with a very high throughput. Many BA Insight customers have millions of documents or even hundreds of millions. Just 1 million documents indexed at 1 document/second would take over 11 days for a full crawl!
  • Is light touch, minimizing the impact on the source system without impacting the performance of the source system.
  • Only surfaces the content that users are permitted to see.
  • IBM Notes retains the master information and the search index has only a representation (pointers). Users expect to click on a search result and be working on the original item or document.

Future-proof Your Investment

As new versions of the search platforms are released, new features and functionality are introduced, and the same is true of new releases of IBM Notes Database. BA Insight takes on the burden of keeping the connector up to date for both IBM Notes Database and the respective search engines.  The upgrades are easy to do and can be done by your IT organization.  It is simply a matter of accessing the BA Insight customer portal, downloading the latest release, and installing and configuring it.  If desired, our professional services team can handle the upgrades.

Platforms Supported:

  • Amazon Kendra
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service
  • Azure Cognitive Search
  • Elasticsearch
  • Microsoft Search
  • SharePoint Online
  • SharePoint On-Premise
  • Solr

Drive Productivity

By connecting Notes to your preferred search engine, you increase adoption of your intranet, improving organizational efficiency and productivity.