Rich Text Migration IBM Connections to SharePoint

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BUSINESS CHALLENGE

• The client had 1700+ community sites and approximately 1000 standalone sites in their existing IBM Connection. They wanted to migrate to a more versatile site like SharePoint.
• One of the peripheral challenges was the rich text content present in the ‘description’ of each community.
• IBM Connections accepts rich text description, but SharePoint has limitations on the number of characters – SharePoint accepts only 250 plain characters.
• Additionally, SharePoint has no feasibility to bring-in rich text content in the description field.
• All the descriptions were very important as they were the community’s homepage content.

HOW AVASOFT HELPED?

• The rich text description was identified during the initial assessment phase. So, we had to make some design changes to accustom rich text in the description field of SharePoint.
• Our solution was that – to migrate complex descriptions from IBM Connections to separate ‘site pages’ instead of using the existing description field in the SharePoint.
• We then made these site pages as the default landing pages to ensure ‘as-is’ rich text migration without any data loss.
• We then migrated all the content from IBM connections to SharePoint using the AVAMIGRATRON tool.
• The solution was initially proposed as a framework to resolve the pain points of Huhtamaki. But now, it’s a part of our AVAMIGRATRON tool.

“Accustom rich text description in SharePoint without any data loss and Ability to handle any complex scenarios arising with business demands”