Seascape for Notes Reviews & Product Details

Seascape has been a solid tool for archiving Lotus Notes databases to SharePoint and creating standalone archives. It handles complex document structures, metadata, attachments, and document links very well, while keeping the output really close to the original.

The user interface is clear and easy to work with, without any unnecessary complexity. I’ve used Seascape with well over 100 databases, ranging from small ones to tens of gigabytes and even over a million documents. Performance has been consistently good, and it handles larger databases without any surprises.

Pricing feels reasonable for the value it delivers, especially considering how much time and manual effort it saves me. Swingsoftware’s support has also been responsive and genuinely helpful whenever needed. Overall, it is a highly professional and effective solution for this purpose and I'm very satisfied with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There can be a bit of a learning curve at the beginning but once you get familiar with the tool, these are relatively minor issues and don’t affect the overall reliability or effectiveness of the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Quick and easy implementation of the solution.

- Responsive support and clear guidance on how to use the application.

- Entirely served its purpose for our migration and archival of Notes databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- For larger and older databases, you may need some Notes experts to prepare the database accordingly / eliminate replication conflicts etc.

- It was a bit difficult at times to set the Web Archive views according to the users' preferences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Organizations can successfully use Seascape to archive hundreds of Notes applications, transforming them into browser-based or SharePoint-accessible archives, thereby eliminating the need to maintain the original Domino infrastructure.

Seascape for Notes is a comprehensive data extraction, migration, and archiving tool designed specifically for legacy Lotus Notes (now HCL Notes and Domino) environments. It enables organizations to preserve historical data in open-standard formats such as PDF, HTML, XML, and JSON, while maintaining full fidelity of views, documents, layouts, links, and metadata.

This allows companies to retire legacy systems without losing access to critical data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adding email notification for large extracts would help developers not constantly check for a successful extract. Even notification at multiple stages would be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seascape has many features and can support the migration to different environment as the business requires. It is quite simple to use and there is a great support behind, always ready to provide assistance as many time as it is required, no restrictions. Support is their winning feature as they can guide you to best solve your issues very fast and clear guidance. Very easy to set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some feature may require good technical knowledge when a special extract is required. But with the help of support this is done together till the wished result is obtained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Replacement of Lotus Notes applications into a generally usable system (Html, PDF) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Graphical representation could be more flexible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the search capabilities with the Seascape Flex we use for our file migration from Lotus Notes. Great product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have not experienced any downsides with the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have now moved away from HCL Notes completely to a low code platform. Systems were run in parallel for some time but some gaps remained. Seascape was used to extract key data as a safeguard prior to decommission of HCL Notes. Once installed the tool was very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. Worked very well for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it was really easy to use and the result was great. It was also easy to try different configurations. Also easy to set up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cant say I found anything to dislike- it worked well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My company had a large number of databases that had to be migrated from Lotus Notes to both SharePoint document repositories and to traditional websites. The Swing software handled both cases as advertised. The import/export process quides you thru the entire process.

I think that a critical success factor for our migration was both Swing's customer and technical support. I reached out to both a couple of times and without fail Swing personnel responded within a business day.

My company did a "deep dive" product comparison analysis and Swing rated higher than the 2 other competitor products, even though one of them was much faster than Swing's product. The tradeoff was that Swing's translations were many times more accurate than the competitors. We are a health insurance company, so accuracy of information is always very critical.

if any potential customer would like to talk to me about our migration efforts, i would be more than willing to talk to them about our technical migration process. in all honesty, other than the "processing run rate," Swing is hands-down the best product out there for migrating Lotus Notes databases into SharePoint document libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm sure a lot of processing is going on behind the scenes, but to be very honest, the entire import/export process seems to be exceedingly slow. we analyzed our "processing run rates" at it seem that the Swing software averaged about 900 to 1300 documents per hour. When you're having to export dozens and dozens of Lotus Notes databases, with literally many hundreds of thousands of documents, it's takes a long time (many man and compute months). When we were deep into our migration we had myself (with 3 VDI machines) and 2 additional contractors (each with either 3 or 4 VDI machines) running non-stop for days at a time.

Having said that, any potential customer should also review what i liked about the Swing competitor, in comparison to competing products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We had to migrate almost half a million records from Lotus Notes for one of the biggest councils in Europe, and Seascape performed the task easily.

The product was quick to install and setup, with an intuitive interface to setup your connections to DB's and Sharepoint sites, as well as what filters/conditions you want to apply.

The customer support was brilliant and came back with responses quickly as well as the helpful online documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was nothing to dislike about this product or the service from the team, I just wish we had purchased it sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.