Company Name: AvePoint and vNext

Challenge: As a Microsoft partner and technology company, vNext has made extensive use of SharePoint as its enterprise portal since 2008. In addition to document management, the platform is used to not only facilitate collaboration amongst its 75 employees, but also external users as well. “We use SharePoint to share information and collaborate with approximately 100 clients and partners,” said Pierre Vivier-Merle, Business Productivity Director at vNext. Previously using an on-premises deployment of SharePoint 2010, vNext ultimately decided to migrate to Office 365 – SharePoint Online. Among other reasons, moving its business data to the cloud would allow the company to reduce infrastructure costs as well as enable better security and uptime in the face on any potential disasters such as theft or fire. “We needed a simple tool that could help us retain versioning and give us more enhanced capabilities when carrying out our migration,” Vivier-Merle said.

Benefits and Outcomes: Migrated 400 site collections with 200 gigabytes (GB) of data directly from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online, saving time and requiring only 10 days of work for administrators. Enabled business continuity on the new platform by migrating all data with full fidelity, including version history and all associated metadata. Implemented a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to manage, protect, restructure, synchronize, and report on Office 365 environment more efficiently.

With DocAve Migrator, vNext was not only able to simplify and speed up its migration to SharePoint Online, but also migrate all data with full fidelity, ensuring all versions and associated metadata were available to users on the new system. Now fully utilizing SharePoint in the cloud, the organization plans to engage DocAve Online for all aspects of SharePoint management and governance enforcement. “We plan to introduce an Office 365 governance solution to our business, and DocAve Online will be entirely integrated into it,” Vivier-Merle said. “This will allow us to offer more services to our clients.”