Migrating to SharePoint 2010
SharePoint has taken the world by storm, becoming the fastest growing server product in Microsoft history and the most widely used platform for enterprise collaboration, portal and document management solutions.
Migrating from another content management system or from an old version of SharePoint will help you utilize state of the art in collaboration, content management, scalability, search & social features. Migrating to SharePoint and in the process cleansing existing content and removing duplicates can reduce the volume of the content. This coupled with the information enriched using new features and enhanced search capabilities can make finding relevant information much faster, thus boosting productivity.
Benefits include:
- Opportunity to do much needed house cleaning
- Ability to leverage social features, mobile platform support & enhanced collaboration features
- Tighter Microsoft Office integration
- Gains in scalability, search and third-party browser support
Our Approach
Migrating to SharePoint 2010 is not just about upgrading the version of SharePoint to the latest version or duplicating content from another CMS system to SharePoint 2010. They are an opportunity to leap frog into next generation of collaboration and content management. While our offerings are flexible and can be customized to meet your specific needs, our typical approach includes:
Mapping Existing Content and Functionality
Documenting current functionality and content Identifying opportunities to trim old & obsolete content Identifying customizations (web parts, workflows, apps, themes, etc.) that need to be ported Reorganizing content and creating a site structure that better represent the way you work
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Definition Documents
- Current site functionality and content map
- Proposed site functionality and new optimized map
- New site architecture and hardware mapping
- High-level project plan for migration with major milestones and communication points
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Planning and Preparing
- Identifying hardware and software needs for the new platform
- Downtime and user impact mitigation planning
- Customization migration planning
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Migration
- Create new SharePoint 2010 environment
- Migrate content, customizations, themes, etc. to the new environment
- Test and verify site functionality
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Migration
- Setup and configuration of new hardware and software
- Content and site functionality migration
- Port of customizations (web parts, workflows, themes, etc.)
- Site security checkup
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User Adoption
- Create best practices and plans to drive adoption in your organization
- Assist in creating materials to drive adoption
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User Adoption
- Customized plan and guide to driving user adoption
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Why Edgewater?
Successful migrations require knowledge from lot of different areas:
- Source and target CMS expertise
- Information architecture
- Infrastructure
- Technical architecture
Edgewater’s experience with content migration for intranet and internet sites with SharePoint and other popular CMS systems as well as focus on information architecture and site organization provides the content centric focus that is vital to any content cleanup and reorganization effort. Our experience with standard Microsoft migration tools and wide variety of third-party migration tools (AvePoint, Metalogix, etc.) allows us to quickly hone in on the best tool for the job for your particular situation. Our technical and infrastructure experts can have your SharePoint server farm performing like a well-oiled machine while keeping the costs in check.
