The AvePoint Solution
McBeath researched and viewed demos of solutions from
several vendors and selected AvePoint’s DocAve Migrator, part of the
DocAve Software Platform. “After evaluating multiple solutions, I
determined AvePoint offered the best quality product,” McBeath said.
“The fact that DocAve Migrator was part of a fully-integrated platform
was also important, as I can easily add additional tools to help with
other aspects of platform management in the future without the need to
install another product or server.”
DocAve helped save significant time with its ability
to perform a live migration with drag-and-drop ease. “I initially
planned for the migration to take five business days, but it only took
one with DocAve,” McBeath said. “I was able to migrate our approximately
1 GB of data in less than six hours, before I left work for the
evening. I appreciated the fact that, after migration jobs were carried
out, I was able to easily go back and migrate all newly-created data
that was not carried over in the previous job.”
Most importantly, DocAve migrated all data with full fidelity,
including metadata, permissions, and document properties, just as the
city required in order to remain compliant with the court system. “The
day after I migrated our data to the new environment, I had our criminal
intelligence and analysis unit look at the new environment to make sure
all metadata was the same,” McBeath said. “They quickly determined that
it was, and we were then able to begin using SharePoint 2010.”