Avanade Cuts SharePoint 2010 Migration Time & Effort

Technology company migrates to SharePoint 2010 in half the time & avoids weeks of post-migration scripting work

Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, Avanade is now a subsidiary of Accenture. Avanade provides enterprise business technology solutions and managed services in areas such as CRM, .NET application development, business intelligence, collaboration, ERP and infrastructure. With US$1.3 billion in revenue, Avanade employs more than 16,000 professionals in 20 countries and serves 3,800 customers worldwide. For help migrating two business-critical applications from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, Avanade turned to Quest Software (now a part of Dell).

Avanade recognized that a migration would set the foundation for future growth and better governance through SharePoint 2010 functionality like managed metadata. In addition, the company felt that SharePoint 2010 would offer a better overall user experience, particularly because of its strong integration with Office 2010. Avanade began by migrating two custom applications from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010: Project Workspace, which is used for customer and internal project collaboration, and Deal Review, which is used to review and approve potential deals for consultants. An IT staff of 13 was assigned to the project, which would involve moving about one terabyte of data.

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