SharePoint Upgrade

The most recent version of SharePoint has a direct, Microsoft-supported upgrade path to SharePoint 2010 (Foundation, Standard or Enterprise). Upgrading is still a daunting prospect if your SharePoint platform is for most though, as so any customisation, 3rd party web parts and even a number of configuration settings may not upgrade successfully. Using an experienced SharePoint consultancy like Citric can potentially save you hundreds of hours of costly downtime, lost data and on-going support issues. We assess your existing environment, prepare the new farm, and carry out test upgrades, ensuring the upgrade goes smoothly. Our developers can fix or workaround any problem customisations, while our support team is on hand to take care of any "teething" issues in the new farm.

 

Although there's no direct upgrade path between these products and SharePoint 2010, we can either perform a two-step migration (using an interim SharePoint 2007 farm) or migrate data using various tools at our disposal directly to a new 2010 farm. The biggest issue with migrating from 2003 is often the training issues surrounding making such a big jump - some strategic consultancy may be needed to ensure you get the most from all the new features.

 

If you have other content/collaboration systems (e.g. SharePoint 2001, Lotus Notes, Microsoft CMS, custom) and you need to use that data within SharePoint 2010, give us a call and we'll be able to tell you what can be achieved. We have access to a number of tools and experience in migrating many types and sources of data successfully into SharePoint. Our developers can even re-write or adapt a custom system so it can "talk" to SharePoint if the data itself has to stay within it.