A notable development - Pegasystems taps into the Notes replacement market opportunity

Big companies bought a lot of licenses/seats for HCL Notes (née IBM Notes, itself née Lotus Notes) starting in the 1990s. Several big services firms (e.g., PriceWaterhouse, Accenture, etc.) were users of this tool which could handle email, document sharing, forms-based apps and more. My own team built a massive knowledge management tool re: ERP software in Lotus Notes.

Like many software products developed in the 1990s, these applications would eventually face some measure of obsolescence and require either redevelopment or replacement. However, not all customers of a given software product can afford to make such a change especially if it is cost-prohibitive, time-consuming or otherwise infeasible to do so at a given time. Some old applications can be too sticky to users or other applications to change out. Whatever the reason, old apps accumulate a lot of technical debt and complicate a firm’s IT environment.

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