“At Calzessa, we certainly subscribe to [the Smarter Commerce] philosophy: by harnessing IBM technology and SolutionPlanet’s technical expertise, we have built a platform that integrates and enhances every aspect of our business.” – Mats Ingelborn, Founder and CEO, Calzessa

This is a quote from a recent case study published by IBM.

At SolutionPlanet we have had a very close cooperation with Calzessa to build and develop a unique e-commerce solution over 10 years. It started quite small and has grown to include support for multiple languages and currencies as well as an integrated forecast analyser for new orders.

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The communications and PR firm Jomono needed a new website and turned to us for a quick and easy to manage solution.
- They had done a few trials using Joomla but got stuck in the process and ended up with a static HTML-page, explains Mats Ingelborn, SolutionPlanet. This is something we see quite often.

Baring the nature of this company they really needed to have a professional and easy to manage website. Jomono’s managing director Åsa Grönlund contacted SolutionPlanet as she heard we worked with WordPress and heard that WP was fast, easy and simple.

- As Jomono already had a layout ready the process from start to a published website with a totally unique design was quite swift, explains Mats. Deciding on a layout or design is usually what takes most time.

The new website is now live at http://www.jomono.se

PrimoMail is now FREE as in gratis
PrimoMail for Notes/Domino has been redesign to fit today’s smart phones such as the iPhone and Android. It is still focused on the user and is making mobile email easy for the user as well as the IT administrator.

Today we take mobile access to the company email for granted but it can be done in many ways and with different success and focus. With PrimoMail the focus is on the user experience and to make it easy. Whatever you read, send, move, delete using PrimoMail is directly and automatically reflected on your office mail.

PrimoMail has a long tradition of providing mobile email for Notes/Domino. Back in 2002 the very first native and platform independent mobile email solution (then mail-e-on-air) was released and gained instant success with companies around the globe. Motorcycle and fashion companies in Italy to jewellery designers in Hong Kong and fishing businesses in Iceland and Norway.

Read more about PrimoMail and get your own free download at http://solutionplanet.com/primomail

The web shop SFQ.se has been selling hosiery in Sweden since 2003. We have now assisted in taking this successful shop into the mobile world.
As always when you work with a mobile interface you have to re-think and re-work many of the methods and processes we take for granted on the Internet. The goal was to develop a user interface that was friendly for finger touch control and also represent what we think users will need from a mobile device.

This resulted in a simple nine icons start page that will take the user to the most interesting and most popular items by categories.
We also opted for a very simple checkout process using invoicing only. With the service provided by the invoicing partner (Svea Ekonomi) all details such as full name and home address is retrieved by just entering the 10 digit social security number. This way the customer does not have to key in name, addresses and credit card details that can be a struggle on a mobile device.

The mobile web shop at www.SFQ.se will be release by SFQ Calzessa AB any day.
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SolutionPlanet will be pleased to assist you in taking your business to the mobile world. Just contact us for a consultation.

As co-founders and investors in Yabot we were called in to assist with a problem some weeks ago regarding two of its editions. Each Yabot edition runs in its own Domino database and can after some years build up to a substantial amount of data.
In this case we’re talking about a 12 GB nsf-file containing almost 3 million documents…

As this system is very intensive on adding and deleting documents it puts the Domino database structure to some serious tests. We see 10′s of thousands of additions daily and just about the same amount of deletions. This will for example make the internal table for deletions stubs crash more often than needed. It also make the view indexer and freetext indexer work hard.

In this particular case several indexes was corrupted and neither compact nor fixup made it any better. The db is on a three server cluster but unfortunately all replicas was effected. Running a fixup and/or compact on a 12 GB db can actually take a full working day – and we did try this with all options we could figure out. And still no luck.

The database information tell us it is used to 71% and that would mean that 8.5 GB of the size is actually used, right?
Well after struggling with this for quite some time someone came up with the idea of taking a new empty nsf and copy every single document to it using an agent. This turned out to be a fantastic idea, part from all docs getting a new unid and the db a new replica id.
So this is how we did it:

1. Create a totally new empty nsf-db
2. Create an agent copying all documents from a view in the original db containing all doc’s.
   Building the view index for that view took 11 hours (!!) on my laptop.
3. Run the agent copying all doc to the empty db.
   Took some 4-5 hours on my laptop.
4. Replace the design with the original design and move the db to the servers
5. Done! Took quite some time but the result was good

The really remarkable thing though is that the new nsf-file (containing all the same documents) just take up about 2 GB – that is a 93% decrease from the original 12 GB. And how could Domino say the there was just 29% white space in the original?