Corporate Background
MayFlower is a privately held company headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts. MayFlower develops and markets specialty software products for Lotus Notes and Domino. MayFlower builds on various technological competences in data gathering, transfer and dissemination.
In 1983, Frank Paolino, Jr. formed MayFlower to develop general-purpose information management solutions. In the course of serving clients like Lotus Development Corporation, GE, and Cabot Corporation, combined with the emergence of the Internet, management identified the opportunity and challenge associated with the delivery of customized information to its customers drawing from disparate data sources. While creating information management solutions for its customers, MayFlower developed several proprietary tools and database engines around which its current products are designed.
| Brief Product History
First Product: Sentinel
In 1993, Sentinel was created. The tool was designed to move data from virtually any environment and format to or from Lotus Notes. The Company’s innovative tool was awarded the prestigious Beacon Award from Lotus Development Corporation. Sentinel was considered the best and easiest data integration tool to use in the Lotus Notes environment with over 22 million users and $18 billion in products and services. The introduction of Sentinel marked the Company’s transition from a provider of custom information management solutions to specific or “shrink-wrapped” software solutions designed to enable individuals to integrate mission critical information into their systems easily.
Second Product: InfoScout
In January 1996, a second product called InfoScout was created, which deploys push technology, to deliver requested information from numerous disparate information sources directly to the end-user. InfoScout provides a mechanism for performing user defined searches on one or more Notes databases or SQL databases. Searches can be sent to execute one time, or be set up to execute on a persistent basis. Persistent searches, which are executed according to a user defined schedule, can be cancelled or modified at any time. Search results are returned in two formats: a) summary report in Notes with links to the original Notes documents or b) HTML based frontpage report designed for the remote end user. InfoScout was also initially tailored to the Lotus Notes environment. The second generation of InfoScout was released in January 1997 and incorporates a subscription feature and increases even further the number of data sources that it searches. |