Pannone, a leading law firm in the United Kingdom, implemented SharePoint to replace its file share and used MetaVis Migrator to migrate and organize content. In this Microsoft case study, read how they approached the project and why MetaVis was the ideal solution for them.
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Practical Action is an International non-governmental organization (NGO). Read how they migrated over ONE MILLION documents to SharePoint 2010 using MetaVis Migrator.
Winter Park Construction (WPC) specializes in the renovation, multi-family, hospitality, commercial, student housing, military housing and senior living markets. WPC leveraged MetaVis Migrator to move to SharePoint 2010 and has empower to organize content directly within 2010 using MetaVis Information Manager. Read how they made the move to 2010 and classifying content directly in the SharePoint ribbon.
Citizen Schools built an Intranet using SharePoint 2007 for its 500 employees to share and collaborate on materials, documentation and projects. The release of SharePoint 2010 offered the school the new features it needed for advanced collaboration. The school needed a migration strategy for moving and organizing its content. MetaVis Migrator made the school’s move to 2010 painless and is now used as a day to day SharePoint management tool. Read their full story!
NetHope, a global not-for-profit organization, upgraded from SharePoint 2007 to Office 365 using MetaVis Migrator. The process included migrating documents, lists, calendar entries and discussions as well as migrating metadata for improved search and collaboration.
Why is it important to organize SharePoint content? The answer is simple, organized content is easier to manage, search and maintain. This makes SharePoint a more productive tool within an organization improving collaboration, document sharing and governance. However, organizing content in SharePoint is no easy task. This article details how and why content classification is an essential part of organizing documents in SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2010 includes new features that make blogs, social computing and tagging content easier. If you or your company has decided to make the move to SharePoint 2010, it will take careful preparation, planning and time to migrate or upgrade to it properly. This article focuses on the steps necessary to successfully migrate your data to SharePoint 2010 while organizing your content.
One of the main reasons for using a content management system like SharePoint is to efficiently find the right documents and to enforce well-defined processes that govern documents’ behavior during different stages of their life cycle. Both of these activities would greatly benefit from the use of metadata, especially if the metadata model is properly designed and the values are consistently applied to documents. This article outlines how to use SharePoint metadata to improve search results and manage content.
Organizations deal with confidential information every day, information that is typically managed using business applications, like SharePoint. Properly implemented and managed security is critical to these applications. With SharePoint, you can implement effective security, but managing it with the tools you get out of the box isn’t the easiest. In this article, we look at the challenges you will face managing security and permissions within SharePoint and discuss why you should make it a key element of your Information Architecture plan.
It’s a common story. An employee reads about how SharePoint is a great tool for document sharing and collaboration, a great place for teams to work on projects, a great tool for the company intranet. They go out, get approval for the software, get IT to install it on a server(s) and then they start moving documents and content over from file shares, from desktop folders, from old databases. Everyone starts to use it but no one is happy because the organization went from multiple disorganized content silos to one big disorganized silo that is just a mess. This happens frequently to companies that don’t plan and organize content before they migrate. Its now time to Organize Your SharePoint...