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White Paper:
Why Invest in Lotus Notes Productivity Tools?

Cut Development and Administration Costs by 30%!

Need help convincing your boss? Debating whether it's worth the cost of investment? Do you need some convincing arguments or facts (i.e. see how a single typical Notes developer can save 525 hours a year)? Judge for yourself, by reading our new white paper: "Why Invest in Lotus Notes and Domino Productivity Tools?"

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Why Invest in Lotus Notes and Domino Productivity Tools?

A White Paper for Lotus Notes/Domino Managers

You are looking for ways to develop Lotus Notes applications more efficiently, and to be more competitive in the marketplace. Should you even be interested in productivity software tools? What kind of software should you look for? Are they worth the cost? Where do you start looking? Fortunately, you are not alone in this search, and hopefully this paper can help lead you in the right direction.

Based on the standard Full-time Employment work year of 1872 hours:

	scanEZ	actionBarEZ	signEZ	designPropEZ	Hours spent on development tasks
Time spent without using development tool (%)	20%	10%	5%	2%
Time spent using development tool (%)	4%	2%	2%	1%
Time spent without using tool (hours/year)	375	188	94	38	695 hours/year
Time spent using tool (hours/year)	75	38	38	19	170 hours/year

The table demonstrates how a single typical developer can save 525 hours of development time in one year. At a Notes developer rate of $60/hour, the corporate fiscal savings would be $31,500 in the first year alone. Imagine if every developer were equipped with such tools!

Software Cost versus Developer Cost

If having your Notes developers dedicate their time to development purposes, rather than making colour changes or font updates is important to you, then it makes good fiscal sense to equip your developers and put the proper tool support behind them.

Cost-prohibitive: It is cost-prohibitive to ask a high-cost employee such as a Notes developer, to spend their time not developing, but on rather simplistic and tedious tasks (i.e. changing the colour property of a button).

Optimize developer time: By optimizing developer time, it frees up time to focus on critical development tasks, and not waste time on errands a software tool can do much more rapidly. Ytria’s tool offering, for example, improves competitiveness, streamlines operational costs, and accelerates the time-to-market for your Notes applications. Such tools help boost software quality and enable more frequent application updates for your customers.

Control size of workforce: By improving the output of developers, it helps reduce the pressure of finding and hiring additional qualified (and expensive) personnel

Employee morale: Be assured, the Lotus Notes developer does not want to spend time on dull chores, but instead be actually developing applications. By improving the development environment, it makes the job much more satisfying and enjoyable.

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If you have any feedback, or comments about how this white paper has helped you (I'd like to hear from you!), just drop me a short email at:

Ryan Hum
ryanhum[at]ytria.com

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