TOOLS YOU CAN TRUST - BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING A MAJOR MIGRATION AT A LEADING TOOLS SUPPLIER

A major UK supplier of a vast inventory of Tools and Equipment products to retail, commerce and industry marketplaces had been managing the supply chain, compliance and associated data recording requirements within a series of Lotus Notes databases.

This solution was becoming increasingly problematic as the databases aged and fell behind current supported releases and the management team recognised the risk of having corporate data continuing to be managed within an environment that was no longer a corporate standard or indeed well supported as problems arose.

When KWS Web Services suggested the best way forward was to undertake a staged rebuild of the material within SharePoint, supplemented by MS InfoPath forms as applicable, it was recognised that this provided an elegant solution whereby a similar look and feel could be recreated using standard Microsoft products.

Furthermore, the data could be elegently transferred over, ensuring continuity of business processes with respect to customers, suppliers and all staff utilising the information as applicable.

The benefits of these approaches are as follows -

• Taking important legacy data and ensuring it remains available on the SharePoint platform - the solution recognised by analysts * as the top quadrant business portal solution for organisations . (  *Gartner)
• Minimum disruption to the business as content could be migrated across into SharePoint lists ensuring no downtime as switchovers were seamless.
• Minimal requirements for training staff on new platforms as the look and feel of the new SharePoint applications was tailored to be as close as possible in appearancea nd functionality as existing databases.
• All achieved at low cost and with minimal management team involvement making it a plug and play switchover - minimal impact, data continuity preserved and enhanced.  

KWS Web Services - Lotus Notes to SharePoint Migration specialists