As prognosticated in a previous post (yay for alliteration!) IBM has announced the withdrawal of support for Quickr:

Effective September 30, 2016, IBM® will withdraw support for the following part numbers licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Program number	Program release name
5724-S31	IBM LOTUS QUICKR FOR DOMINO
5724-Z67	IBM LOTUS QUICKR FOR WEBSPHERE
5725-A17	IBM LOTUS QUICKR CONNECTORS

So, start your clocks (if you hadn’t already in April 2013 when marketing was withdrawn)! A year for hundreds of companies with hundreds of thousands of users to plan and execute on a migration strategy, if you worry about such things as supported software. In some cases (such as regulated companies, SarBox, etc.) you have to, and will have quite a bit of planning ahead. High level, you will have to concern yourself with:

1. Analysis of your current environment and usage patterns
2. Quantification of customization, task and calendar patterns, and priority level
3. Assessment of other in-house document solutions, or extranets if that is your use case
4. Evaluation of available options from third parties – Microsoft, IBM, DOCOVA, custom
5. Retirement / attrition planning and communications
6. Development of a migration plan and communications
7. Acquisition of licenses for a replacement platform / solution
8. Technical services for migration of maximum available data
9. Training and user adoption strategies on the new platform

Just another year in the life of a CIO!