Migrating SharePoint for UK Port

Modernising CMS for Europe’s busiest port

The Challenge

The client was using SharePoint 2007 as their central document repository at the time of contacting us. This platform hosted the port’s key workflows and its organisation-wide intranet. However, this version was out of date and required updating. Due to performance, functionality and support issues, the client considered migrating to a modern SharePoint version.

Additionally, the port’s efficiency was affected by teams using siloed file shares. A SharePoint migration was the perfect opportunity to bring those teams onto a centralised platform.

Importantly, the need for change was clear. However, lacking the internal expertise, the port first needed guidance on how to proceed for best results.

The Solution

Discovery and analysis pre-migration

As part of the migration process, our consultants carried out an initial discovery phase to assess the port’s existing content. This phase consisted of four main elements: a content audit, analysis, report creation, and migration planning.

In the content audit, the port’s SharePoint sites were arranged into a thorough inventory with a variety of auditing tools. This provided data for analysis, including internal collating, assumption testing, and planning. In turn, this informed a detailed document on the existing platform and the migration options available, along with their costs and benefits. Finally, there came the migration planning stage, which took the form of on-site workshops with the port’s stakeholders and IT teams.

Upon completion, the port’s IT team found itself in a position to perform its long-awaited SharePoint migration. Without the need for further external support, the port followed our detailed recommendations to successfully migrate 10 site collections containing around 600GB of content.

The Results

Easy sailing with SharePoint migration