
<p>news The nation's largest airline Qantas has revealed that it's still in the process of migrating its corporate email platform off IBM's Lotus Notes/Domino platform and onto Microsoft's Outlook/Exchange system, with the rollout now into its fourth year.</p><p>The airline first confirmed it would migrate onto Outlook/Exchange in February 2010. At the time, Qantas' executive manager of corporate services and technology David Hall said the process of migrating to Exchange had already begun, with piloting underway across the airline's executive team. "Subject to satisfactory piloting, we anticipate the migration to be substantially completed by the end of the year," the executive added. At that stage it was expected that around 20,000 staff would be migrated to the Microsoft platform.</p><p>Qantas was also be consolidating "a large number" of Lotus Notes applications and databases as part of its drive to "standardise, reduce and simplify" the number of business applications and tools it used.</p><p>In a statement today, the airline said the transition from Notes for individual users was completed in 2012, with its corporate employees now using Outlook. However, the migration of its shared mailboxes and distribution lists was still being finalised, and now due to be complete by the end of this year. Japanese IT services giant Fujitsu is believed to be working with the airline on the project.</p><p><a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/15/qantas-still-finalising-outlook-shift/">Keep reading...</a></p>