Going Green with Lotus Notes
I am proud to admit that one of my applications won a corporate “Going Green” award.
- We (the app) will save roughly $100,000 year (I say roughly because it is only calculated supply costs)
- We’ve eliminated the need to print to 3,000,000+ sheets of paper a year (I’ve estimated that to be 40 trees a year)
- They don’t give a dollar value but there is also significant monetary savings since we don’t have to transfer and store 3,000,000+ sheets of paper yearly.
I wish I could give more detail but I would probably have to talk to the PR department.
Need to automate your processes and stop using printers and faxes? There’s an app for that!
There are 5 Comments to "Going Green with Lotus Notes"
Congratulations! It’s great to be able to see an environmental benefit from your coding. I’m not sure that saving all that paper is going to do much to help the Wisconsin economy, though.
Thanks. I will gladly offset the loss by drinking more Wisconsin beer.
Congratulations on this achievement. A little bit of savings here and there adds up.
Tom – would be very, very interested in knowing more – if not an NSF at least the idea behind the design (something on the lines of printing to documents from email??). I work at an organization where we really do need to ‘go green’ – the amount of paper wasted is just staggering. Do share !!!
It’s sad how the simple the database is. I collect emails/faxes and the users add 5 fields worth of data to the form. Then, it’s just passed around a few queues for workflow.
I did add an interesting piece and if it continues to work (I don’t trust my own code) I’ll probably blog about it.
I added a queue mode. I allow users to set a profile field to turn on “Queue Mode” which opens up the next document after it. That doesn’t sound that complicated but you have to turn on record locking or Replication Save conflicts are instantaneous.