Airtel Limited
IBM FileNet ECM Modernization









Client Profile
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. With over 403 million customers across its operations, they offer wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high-speed home broadband, DTH, and enterprise services to carriers.
We were required to migrate their departmental documents from IBM FileNet object store (HRSS) into Microsoft SharePoint. This transition encompassed over 110 terabytes of data, using our Migration Accelerator’s inbuilt features. The migration was phased over two weeks, aligning with departmental availability to ensure minimal business disruption.
LOCATION
India
SECTOR
Telecommunication
SOURCE
IBM FileNet
DESTINATION
SharePoint Online

Airtel' Unique Challenges
Complex legacy system
With a large volume of unstructured documents in their legacy system, it was required to review the metadata, taxonomy and security permissions to understand and address any errors before migration.
Data inconsistencies
Files were stored in inconsistent formats with invalid characters, broken URLs, duplicated items, long item names and more. This made it difficult for users to identify relationships between documents, creating redundancy and affecting user experience.
Inefficient content retrieval
The complexity and lack of classification in the company's legacy system made content difficult to access. Finding specific documents became time-consuming and required extensive manual effort.
Data security concerns
The gaps in content structure and data quality raised concerns about the security of our client's long-term business content and the need to safeguard their data to help meet compliance requirements.
Proventeq's Solution
Discovery & analysis
Pre-migration checks were performed to identify and mitigate potential content issues. We discovered which high-value content needed to be migrated over and built a strong case for migration.
Data validation
Using predefined customer inputs, our experts implemented standard file formats, consistent naming rules and intuitive folder structures to provide a more efficient user experience.
Data classification
Our team created a taxonomy and logical folder structure that aligned with the company’s workflow, mapping it to SharePoint's information architecture. We also implemented relevant metadata and tags for documents to facilitate easy retrieval of information for users.
Applying security policies
Following a successful validation and audit of information, data was migrated in full fidelity to SharePoint. Retention schedules for various document types were defined to help the company meet regulatory requirements.
The Results
Improved team collaboration
Establishing a classification framework in SharePoint has enabled users to easily locate and share documents. Additionally, Microsoft Teams has enhanced document collaboration using features like co-authoring.
Increased productivity & efficiency
With improved document findability, employees are able to focus on higher-value strategic tasks instead of spending time manually organizing and searching for documents, enhancing productivity and efficiency.
Enhanced security & compliance
SharePoint's advanced access controls and retention policies have empowered the company to meet compliance standards while safeguarding sensitive data. By consolidating, enriching and validating content before the transition, stakeholder concerns about
long-term data integrity has been addressed.
Migration Team,
Proventeq
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Our team implemented an audit trail throughout the migration process to ensure all the items in the scope of migration had been migrated successfully and met the client's requirements.