Migration from Legacy Tech to Fuel Business Productivity and Customer Experience

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A global technology company with a local presence in over 100 countries that provides integrated solutions across Electrification, Process Automation, Motion, and Robotics & Discrete Automation business areas that energize the transformation of society and industries towards a more productive and sustainable future.

They needed an experienced and committed technology partner to support them with the migration and modernization of their dated solutions in order to enable new products, services, revenue streams and scalability to deliver more value to their customers. Their solutions critically lacked scalability and proper performance leading to poor business productivity and user experiences.

Among the technical challenges, the client faced the need to modernize their:

• legacy IT landscape that was composed of classic network drives and a Lotus Note-based email.
• complex multi-farm scenario, including SharePoint Online and on-premise

The Avenga team was involved in the development of a new SharePoint-enabled system, as well as infrastructure migration and support. The solution delivery included:

• Development of tailored migration scripts so as to move content from legacy systems to SharePoint with proper tooling.
• Design & implementation of custom policies based on content governance best practices in order to keep the optimal performance, searchability and security.
• Implementation of federated and hybrid scenarios that allow them to mix on-premise legacy SharePoint farms and SharePoint online, as a Content Services platform.
• Implementation of custom authentication providers that allow the integration of the SharePoint environments with ADFS, supporting the NTLM authentication scenarios.
• Custom provisioning service, which is a customized workflow for the self-service creation of new sites and groups.

• [Management Effectiveness - Centralized Management]
  

  The Avenga team helped the client to smoothly and painlessly migrate from legacy tech and to realign the solution with the arising needs of the business.

• [Cost Reduction - Data Management]
  

  The project contributed to leveraging digital technologies for the client’s business so as to become more automated, insightful and more cost effective.

• [Cost Reduction - IT]
  

  The created highly scalable solution reduced the complexities and risks of implementing new tech and delivered more from their IT budget.