Hays Recruitment

Migration from OpenText to SharePoint Online

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Client Profile

Hays is a global leader in specialist recruitment with over £3bn in turnover. Over 8,000 staff in 380 offices across 27 countries, annually they place on average 80,000 people in permanent jobs, & 300,000 into temporary roles.

Hays had undertaken a massive technological innovation and renovation program and Proventeq worked with them as Solution Architecture and Design consultants; helping Hays to achieve technology innovations by providing specialist consultancy.

Proventeq specializes in migration from non-Microsoft and legacy Microsoft systems to SharePoint. Our AI-powered migration and Content Productivity solutions turned Hays' SharePoint adoption challenges into opportunities.

Our migration experts utilized Operational Management Information platform using Oracle BI as the front end and SSAS as the back end. They also ensured that all data adhered to the migration rules observed, which involved addressing any conflicting files to ensure a successful migration process for Hays Recruitment.

Location

UK

SECTOR

Recruitment

SOURCE

OpenText

DESTINATION

SharePoint Online

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The Complexities of Migrating from OpenText to SharePoint Online
  • To integrate the core CRM system with back-office applications 
  • Enable an enterprise search platform to allow visibility across over 10,000,000 CVs. 
  • Redevelop business-critical applications to meet emerging business needs. 
  • Modernize the existing Hays website.  
  • Insight into operations to provide accurate and actionable information. 
  • Need for public-facing enterprise mobility solutions across key business functions. 
  • Full fidelity migration of over 1,000,000 compliance documents into SharePoint.
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Solving Hays’ Unique Challenges

Solution architecture & design

Using a mix of the latest Microsoft .Net and Oracle technologies, solution architecture was designed for critical applications.

EAI

Designing an SOA platform for integrating the core CRM system with back-office (PeopleSoft) and other business applications.

Provide an effective search platform

A complex integration of Google Search Appliance to the core CRM platform for searching through key business entities. Provide an effective search platform to allow visibility across over 10,000,000 CVs.

Redevelop business-critical applications

Redevelop business-critical applications to meet emerging business needs including iPhone and Android applications for Job searching (live) and timesheet submission.

The Results

An ‘exceptional’ solution


Our team ensured every piece of data was aligned with the rules of the migration. This included resolving any inconsistent files, therefore guaranteeing that the migration would be successful.

Enhanced content quality


All the items were successfully transformed with WCAG compliance standards while enhancing the quality of all content items and digital assets.

Reduced business downtime


The ‘phased migration’ and ‘delta management’ proved useful for the client's internal departments to transition into their new environment at their own pace.

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Through a full-fidelity migration process, we migrated a legacy intranet site, of more than 1.1 million compliance documents to from Hays' legacy OpenText system to SharePoint and a legacy website to Oracle WebCenter.

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