IBM Connections to SharePoint migration with custom privileges

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BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Cohu is a very futuristic company that only suggests practical recommendations to their clients. Being futuristic, they wanted to migrate from their existing IBM connections to Share Point. They had 1000+ community sites each with different permission levels.

• The client had 2000+ communities and 1000+ standalone sites in their existing IBM Connections. Due to cost and other dependent factors, they wanted to migrate to SharePoint Classic sites.

HOW AVASOFT HELPED?

• As a first step, we assessed their environment, communities, and content and figured out that they didn’t have standard permission levels for admins, members, and visitors.
• We collaborated with the client and consolidated a list of admins, members, and visitors. People who fall under any of these 3 criteria will have corresponding privileges only. For example, private communities will be migrated as separate entities with tight access permissions.
• As a remediation process plus adhering to the guidelines, we recommended them to maintain security levels.
• Additionally, we also gave them an option “customized permission levels” – we rationalized the privileges to simple levels in MS Teams to easily maintain security levels.
• We then migrated all their 1000+ communities to MS Teams using AVAMIGRATRON.

“Formulated standard permission levels based on individual titles (admin/member/visitor). Customized permission levels helped them bypass permission queue and Swift migration from IBM Connections to MS Teams within 3 just business weeks”