Migration and Redesign of a Corporate Portal Serving Employees and External Contractors

Industry

Defense

Technologies

SharePoint, Power BI

About

The Client is a U.S. company providing aircraft maintenance services.The Client is a U.S. company providing aircraft maintenance services, ensuring high-quality repairs and inspections to keep fleets operating safely and efficiently.

Challenge

The Client ran a corporate portal on SharePoint 2010. The solution served both internal and external users as a single collaboration area. Unfortunately, due to insufficient SharePoint maintenance and support, the portal became hard to manage and use. To put their SharePoint portal back on the rails, the Client addressed to VolgoTechnologies to perform the following activities

Solution

Following the Client requirements, VolgoTechnologies SharePoint team started with migrating the SharePoint 2010 solution to SharePoint 2016, the platform latest version. Using the database attach method, a SharePoint developer and a SharePoint administrator performed a two-step migration

Concurrently, they restored all the missing and defective functionality (SharePoint templates, metrics and sources) via Windows PowerShell.

Staging

Data Ware House

Data Ware House

Desktop Application

Results

Get a more powerful portal built on SharePoint 2016, which improved the solution’s performance and opened wider collaboration capabilities for end users.

Technologies and Tools

Microsoft SharePoint 2016, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server 2016, SharePoint Designer 2013, Visual Studio 2015, Windows PowerShell.