In 2011, the ASR insurance corporation initiated a companywide project to make the move to the SharePoint platform with both their ECM and WCM systems. For the business the new platform held a promise for better integration, easier collaboration, and of course a chance to update the look and feel of the public websites.
One of the requirements of the business was to keep the content-reuse model as implemented in their current Tridion environment intact in the new SharePoint environment. This posed a serious challenge for IT as SharePoint has no out-of-the-box solution for this type of content reuse.
For the implementation of the content reuse functionality, experts were hired and internal programmers were trained. For the automated content migration part IT recognized that the challenge was beyond their own skillset, and thus they asked us to advice on a realistic migration strategy that would be repeatable for each of its websites.
The migration advice started with a full inventory of ASR’s Tridion environment to identify content types, structure, metadata quality, level of content reuse, etc. The results of this inventory were used as input for the functional design and migration plan.
The advice in the migration plan evolved around a number of key points:
The resulting migration street was applauded to by both IT and business.
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