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…
DetailsWhat makes a good migration? How can you make sure that your enterprise’s migration will be smooth and effective? With experience from thousands of successful enterprise migrations to draw on, CASAHL is here to help explain the dos and don’ts of setting up and carrying out an effective enterprise migration. A good migration requires planning…
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…
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…
DetailsCASAHL has learned over the course of hundreds of enterprise-scale migration projects that eight key processes and products are needed to ensure migration quality in terms of content fidelity, correctness, completeness, and user acceptance. We’ve also learned, from customer stories and experiences with inadequate migration tools and techniques (either from CASAHL competitors or home-grown), that…
DetailsDeployment rationalization is the process of bringing all stakeholders in a content/collaboration migration initiative together to jointly prioritize and optimize migration project planning. For large-scale enterprise migrations to Office 365, rationalization is a critical success factor for effectively addressing complex content and collaborative app deployments. Our previous post, Comprehensive SharePoint Deployment Assessment: The First Step…
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…
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