ABOUT CUSTOMER
A leading supplier of systems and components to the US Automotive Industry.
PROJECT SCOPE
- Migrate the SharePoint environment for North America and Europe to SharePoint Online
- Prepare migration strategy - initial and delta migration
- Develop a new Enterprise Portal including a custom-built mega menu improving navigation throughout and differentiate corporate page from out-of-the-box SharePoint online solutions
PROBLEMS
- The customer had intranet portals for North America and Europe deployed on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
- The SharePoint servers for North America were hosted on-premises at their data center
- The SharePoint servers for Europe were hosted on Virtual Machines on AWS Cloud
CHALLENGES
- Existing Intranet Portal had lot of information, hard for users to locate files and information
- Users had to connect to multiple internal applications, hard to locate and subscribe to the applications
- Announcements were not personalized by region, division. News and Information not always relevant
- Couldn’t conduct surveys, difficult to gather feedback
- Searching documents and information was difficult
- User adoption lacked because not user friendly
- Lack of Governance and security model for information
SOLUTION
- Conducted workshops for multiple teams, presented the Art of the Possible with Softura extending SharePoint
- Sent survey to the active users to collect feed back
- Developed home page with modern user interface
- Integrated menu for all systems
- Apps Subscription widget allows users to subscribe the application, personalized to Users
- Personalized Announcements by User
- Personalized Surveys by Users
- Enhanced Search to provide friendly interface for SharePoint and O365
BENEFITS
- Largest IT project: Successful execution of one of the largest IT Projects for the customer
- Significant Cost Savings: Savings of $2K to $3K per month by phasing out of AWS
- Modernized Enterprise Portal: Easy-to-use Modern User Interface with enhanced search
- 290+ Site Collections : With thousands of sub-sites successfully migrated to the new environment
- Better Navigation: Using Custom-built Mega Menu within the Portal
- Increased Self-Customization: Easy customization of pages through web apps
