The Complexities Of Migrating From IBM FileNet To SharePoint
Having used a legacy IBM FileNet deployment to manage over 850Gb of content since 2009, DSOA had a requirement for a modern platform to streamline various business processes and improve departmental efficiencies.
To achieve this, DSOA needed assistance in understanding the existing content landscape, implementation of an effective information management and governance strategy in SharePoint and migration of large volume of content from existing FileNet platform to align with the streamlined business processes.
However, DSOA faced a variety challenges to ensure they could take full advantage of the rich feature set offered by Microsoft SharePoint. These included:
- Required an insight into the existing content, information architecture and ECM Features being used in IBM FileNet.
- Investigation of the day-to-day operations involving IBM FileNet to address high-level business decisions surrounding FileNet’s content.
- Thorough assessment of source content to identify errors, inconsistencies, and relationships surrounding content.
- Need for an optimised information architecture which closely matched DSOA’s existing business processes.
- Efficiently manage the migration of a large volume of content across multiple departments.
- An audit trail of the entire migration was required to comply with government legislation.