ApplicationXtender to SharePoint o365 Migration
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Our client determined that it was important for them to consolidate their existing content management platforms into a singular cloud-based solution. Their objective was to migrate away from the existing ApplicationXtender 7.0 platform in favor of Microsoft’s SharePoint Office 365 hosted solution. This migration would allow them to decommission an on-premise AX system that was difficult to support internally.
The project involved the migration of thousands of varying types of documents from ApplicationXtender 7.0 along with the content’s associated metadata & permissions over to SharePoint Office 365 under extremely tight timeliness.
Customer had the following content migration requirement:
- Migration of their ApplicationXtender7.0 to SharePoint o365.
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The Challenge
Solution
To meet these objectives, Verinon was engaged for global content migration services to accomplish this turnkey migration project.
By deploying our services methodology and using Verinon’s Easy2Share migration tool, Verinon’s delivery team was able to complete the migration on time and within the budgetary needs of the client.
Verinon’s services migration services methodology consists of
- Analysis of the customers AX environment content through robust reporting.
- Planning for issues platform differences requiring change management and possible customizations.
- Export of all ApplicationXtender Content and Migration of all exported content and associated Metadata (Created, Created By, Modified) including custom metadata from the source system to SharePoint o365 business.
- Transformation of all source content and metadata through the Easy2Share toolintoa staging environment.
- Loading of all different types of ApplicationXtender objects into SharePoint o365.
- Validation by the Verinon services team that the content is accurate and migrated per customer requirements.
- Handover of the newly migrated content to business owners/users.
Verinon’s proprietary content migration methodology is in place at numerous companies across many vertical industries within North America and Asian Pacific Regions. Our methodology is proven and offers aguaranteed business result.
This approach centers on the following steps that have proven critical on each such migration:
Planning: This initial step includes an evaluation of existing ApplicationXtender environment, including an Easy2Share assessment process which includes a proof-of-concept migration of a sample Jive content(s) with the purpose of establishing a plan and schedule for the migration process.
Analyze Content: The next step is to analyze the existing ApplicationXtender content and make any necessary adjustments, if necessary, from within the source. This is also the necessary step to plan for an in- process data transformation.
Migrate: The next step is to Migrate all the data from ApplicatioXtender to SharePoint o365
Verify / Validate: Finally, this approach calls for an active verification and validation of the results. The Easy2Share process involves a series of Analysis, pre-extract, and post-import reports to validate the process. In addition, there are audit logs at each step review each step in this process.
Result: There are several things one must properly match from the ApplicationXtender environment to one inSharePoint o365. In addition to proper matching, the result has to be auditable and verifiable.
Full Auditable: In addition to the fact that detailed logs are created as part of the Process, both summary and detailed reporting both as it relates to users and objects is incorporated into both the Jive and SharePoint o365 end of the process.
Result
The solution has been successfully migrated all ApplicationXtendercontents to SharePoint o365 and have received very positive feedback after several months of the system’s utilization.
Among the most important business benefits noted by the Customer are:
- Vastly reduced the amount of time necessary to migrate content
- Allowed for the customer to focus on critical tasks instead of the migration
- Modification of the migration tool on the fly to accommodate customer's unique needs
- Migration of nearly 1 million objects consisting of 4 million pages of data with 100% accuracy based on customer need.
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