Once your enterprise has finished migrating all its content and applications from your legacy system into the target deployment, congratulations are in order! You’ve carried out a migration! This means you’re done, right? Well… almost. Rather, you could consider a migration finished at this stage, but there are a few other things to follow up…
DetailsThe most complicated part of any migration is the migration of complex custom applications. We discussed the migration of simple content in our previous post, but the history and variety of complex applications make them an entirely different beast. Most enterprises have at least a few complex custom apps; those apps are often built over…
DetailsAs we’ve previously discussed, the best way to ensure that your enterprise’s migration is a success is to build a comprehensive, fact-based migration plan, and ensure that you have a capable partner on hand to carry it out. Even once those big-picture concerns have been addressed, however, there are smaller-scale steps you can take to…
DetailsWhat makes a good migration? How can you make sure that your enterprise chooses a migration partner that will help your migration succeed? Once you’ve assessed your legacy content and used that information to understand exactly what your migration needs are, the next step is to choose a migration partner. A good migration partner can…
DetailsEnterprise collaboration, as a software product/service domain, has had something of a roller coaster history, with lots of ups and downs. Starting with the combined send-and-share (messaging/documents) focus of Lotus Notes in the late 1980s and continuing through the enterprise social wave of recent years, enterprise collaboration offerings haven’t consistently delivered on vendor visions or…
DetailsThe rapid market shift to cloud services for enterprise content/collaboration needs has resulted in a large and growing demand for multifaceted migration solutions. Enterprises that focus primarily or exclusively on file migration are only addressing one part of the overall migration challenge, however, and risk stalling their new cloud deployments by not making all useful…
DetailsSeveral enterprise market dynamics have converged to create a new wave of conversational collaboration apps and services that offer compelling new opportunities to streamline work and get more value from enterprise content resources. This new wave is currently disrupting the traditional content/collaboration competitive landscape and creating new requirements for content/collaboration migration solutions. This post provides…
DetailsSuccessful Office 365 migrations from on-premises SharePoint Server deployments start with comprehensive assessments. When enterprises attempt Office 365 migrations without first completing deep assessments of their on-premises SharePoint deployments, the migration projects are often unnecessarily expensive and can fail to fully optimize content and collaborative apps for new Office 365 capabilities, resulting in reduced productivity…
DetailsMicrosoft is making significant enhancements to content and collaboration capabilities in modern SharePoint, placing SharePoint Online at the center of its Office 365 content/collaboration value proposition. This post provides an overview of the new capabilities, contrasting them with earlier content/collaboration features in traditional SharePoint (primarily on-premises SharePoint Server). The new capabilities and underlying architecture in…
DetailsGoogle Sites, typically available as part of Google Apps for Work when used within large enterprises, is a team site service that has some functional overlap with content/collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint and Lotus Notes/Domino. Although Google Sites hasn’t been strongly promoted by Google since it was first released in early 2008, it has…
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