CASAHL DART

High-Level Project Summary: Key performance indicators presented on the DART project home page make it easy for all stakeholders to see the current status of the migration project at a glance, and to monitor for any potential obstacles to migration. In addition to the comprehensive project dashboard, the DART workspace contains separate detailed pages for every application identified by Analyzer.

Automation and Archival Identification: DART uses the detailed deployment information produced by the Application Analyzer, including per-application complexity ratings and usage patterns, to identify opportunities to significantly reduce the number of applications to be migrated. This is accomplished by identifying common elements, such as replicas, templates, and consolidation groups that can be easily transitioned automatically, and low-use content that can be archived. Identifying and removing these items from the migration queue makes for faster, more efficient migrations.

Full Fidelity of Application Content: DART captures qualitative as well as quantitative deployment and strategy details during the assessment stage, including application metadata, sharing semantics, and access control. This information is retained throughout the transition progress to ensure that migrated content retains the details and context that contribute to its value.

User-Based Rationalization: DART provides a collaborative forum in which it collects and prioritizes information not directly manifested in deployed applications to create a space where additional business- and application-related details and priorities can be discussed and managed. The collaborative approach embodied in DART also provides a venue for application users to share insights such as details about which portions of applications are unused or rarely used, highlighting additional consolidation opportunities and capture budget-related considerations, such as migration cost limits for a particular application.

Automatic Generation of Design Specifications: DART user input on which portions of applications are critical to the enterprise, such as particular forms or views, is used to automatically generate a Word document that summarizes key perspectives for each selected application and determines which of its components need to be migrated.

“Soft Landing” Transition to SharePoint and Office 365: DART makes it possible for users participating in migration projects to experience the environment and tools they will be routinely using when the migration project is completed before the old content system is retired. This approach helps to foster participant buy-in, even among people who have worked for many years on the previously-deployed collaboration environment and may be apprehensive about the transition to the Microsoft platform, and avoids abrupt shifts that can disrupt user productivity.

Ease of Customization: DART can be readily customized to address organization-specific requirements, such as having different DART sites based on geographical or business functions, or enhancing survey questions based on current company-specific goals. This unique and comprehensive approach to migration analysis and planning ensures all consolidation opportunities are considered.

Optional Cloud-Based DART: Since DART can be hosted in Office 365 or SharePoint private cloud, organizations do not have to install anything on-premises in order to get started. This approach means many organizations can complete enterprise content analysis and begin collaboratively working on detailed modernization plans in a matter of days. If preferred, DART can also be run on-premises within an existing SharePoint deployment.