A global colors and specialty chemical manufacturer was looking at optimizing costs, cloud-readiness, and capitalizing on their Office 365 investments by migrating their legacy on-premise SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online.
The client’s existing on-premise platform encompassed 500+ sites and was accessed by more than 2000 concurrent users. Equipped with our offerings under Infosys Cobalt, we re-designed the platform and helped them seamlessly migrate to SharePoint Online without hindering performance and security, or causing loss of data.
Key Challenges
- Microsoft’s mainstream support for SharePoint Server 2010 was ending in 2020, making it imperative for the client to move to SharePoint Online as fast as possible
- The unavailability of codebase and design documents for custom applications (farm solutions) created impediments in building the existing application functionality in O365
- Creating ease of adoption of enterprise business applications for end users
- The on-premise servers were maintained by a third-party vendor which was resulting into higher costs
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The Solution
Migration fueled by modern technologies
Infosys envisioned the solution based on industry best practices, standards, guidelines, and expertise in developing similar projects in the past.
Migration of 700 GB data across ~500 sites with 39 sandbox solutions, 13 farm solutions, ~515 InfoPath, and 500 workflows completed successfully without any significant business disruption of end user access to SharePoint sites.
What did we do?
- Implemented Infosys’s home-grown migration factory to accelerate the migration process
- Custom applications were re-created from scratch using reverse engineering (by extracting the code from .wsp package using reflectors)
- Latest technologies like Power Platform were incorporated into the solution
- Through migration to SharePoint Online, it was possible to decommission all on-premise legacy servers
- SMAT tool was used during assessment phase for better and accurate inventory preparation
- Comprehensive strategic roadmap was created for migration and remediation activities
- Migration factory was implemented – Automated PowerShell script for migration using ShareGate
- Remediation of broken links using Chrome broken link application
Leveraging latest upgrades to reap productivity and cost benefits
- Increase productivity by enabling the workforce to access project data from any place and at anytime
- Transitioning to an online platform can help in significant reduction of infrastructure, operational and maintenance costs
- Improve governance and sustainability through platform foundation applications
Benefits
Increased productivity and reduced costs
Increased transformation throughput and reduced the manual intervention
Re-created custom applications from scratch, helped in maintaining source codes and increased feasibility of enhancing functionalities through proper governance
Used technologies like Power Platform with which users can quickly and easily build custom apps, automate workflows to improve business productivity, and analyze data for insights
Reduced infrastructure, platform operational overhead, and maintenance costs by decommissioning legacy servers and O365 transformation
