Today, at enterprise level email has become the most preferred and fastest way of communication among employees. Therefore, various email clients are being used by different organizations for secure and fast emails sharing. Some of the email clients that are being used at enterprise level are- MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, MS Outlook Express, Mail, KMail and Opera Mail. Among these, Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are the ordinarily used email clients. Though, Lotus Notes has properties like multi-platform support, fast email transfer capability, higher email security, etc.

organizations in a large scale are favoring MS Outlook. There are following reasons due to which organizations are switching from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook:
Unfamiliarity of users with Lotus Notes; therefore, large amount of money needs to be spent on users’ training
High installation and maintenance cost
Requirement for highly experienced and qualified help desk to resolve users’ issues related to Lotus Notes

While on the other hand, MS Outlook comes as a part of Microsoft Office Suite; therefore, no extra money is required to purchase it. Apart from it, installing, configuring, and maintaining MS Outlook is much easier than Lotus Notes. And because of its self descriptive user interface, users do not require thorough training about using it. These are the some noticeable reasons among others due to which organizations are stepping towards MS Outlook. But, the biggest challenge for organizations while transferring emails from Lotus Notes to MS Outlook is employees working schedule should not be disturbed. Moreover, there should be no alteration in emails formatting and properties.

Manually switching from Lotus Notes to Outlook by keeping organizations’ views in mind is a tedious and time consuming process. That is why organizations prefer using software programs that are specially designed to export Lotus Notes emails to MS Outlook. There are many email migration programs available in the market from which you can select the best one as per your requirements. Most of the organizations that deal in software to export Notes to Outlook, lure their customer with free trial version. So, before blindly purchasing the software just by reading the software overview and features, you can execute that trial version. If the trial version perfectly export Notes emails to Outlook then purchase the full version otherwise try another one. This is the best way for selecting a good Lotus Notes to Outlook migration program.