SharePoint Data Assessment

Planning a migration to the cloud must start with auditing the data that you want to take with you. If you’re looking to migrate your data, be it from legacy systems, file shares or older versions of SharePoint, the first question you must ask yourself is: what is my data? Migration to a new platform is a perfect opportunity to figure out what your content is and what you want to bring with you to your new home. With our SharePoint data assessment exercise we help you discover and analyse your content, providing metrics like size, age, usage, permissions, structure, file types, sensitivity, etc. We understand every clients’ Microsoft 365 journey is unique, and so is their data. Our assessment approach analyses your data, your infrastructure and your Microsoft 365 maturity, so that we can provide recommendations and a roadmap for migrating into Microsoft 365. We include up to 4 workshops, designed to understand the requirements of the business and define the scope of the project. The assessment is typically a 4-week engagement, and follows a structured approach that starts with determining the existing content sources and the technology platforms; followed by a series of analysis activities to understand the current content, its structure and metadata. All this is documented in a final report, containing a detailed analysis of the current data, highlighting potential pitfalls and blockers, estimates of the migration efforts and a draft migration plan. These reports help you identify the migration’s prerequisites and understand whether you are ready to move your content to Microsoft 365; both opportunities to improve your content services and migration risks will be identified, as well as providing risk guidance to your change and adoption strategy. The aim of all these analysis activities is to lower the risk to your organization and define a clear migration roadmap, eventually providing a secure, compliant environment where users can collaborate more efficiently.