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Case Study
INDUSTRY
Payroll Processing - Entertainment
Industry
CHALLENGES
-> Limited documentation -> Multiple versions across applications including out-of-support ones -> Lack of high availability -> Lots of custom workflows and customization requirements
Overview
Customer has multiple applications/portals/sites with different versions of
SharePoint Technology i.e. SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and O365 SharePoint
online. They also have plans to migrate all these portals/sites to O365 or AWS or
Azure.
ATMECS is providing support to existing SharePoint 2010 & 2013 farm environments,
analyzing existing applications and doing feasibility study. We explored multiple
migration options/tools information and documented.
These new portals have the capability of integrating with various technologies and
products/tools, while providing an easy and clear user integration. We plan to
enhance the application to make it more matured with features enabling more
productivity, and has begun gradually rolling out flexible solutions to businesses
across other divisions and departments within the entity, using the same
infrastructure. Also, the infrastructure is matured to accommodate other associated
sites too, and may grow to further sectors soon.
Background
We maintain multiple websites and provide support to internal as well as external
customers. We also design applications based on employees request, providing
operational support.
Microsoft SharePoint is a business collaboration platform for enterprise and web
platform. It has the flexibility to create websites easily and share information across
the world in a secure manner. It also supports content management, document
management and knowledge management with extended security features.
SharePoint also integrates with Windows and MS Office. It also has search features
like simple, Advanced, people and enterprise search.
SharePoint 2013 is having Enterprise search capability to search documents in the
SharePoint sites and public non-SharePoint sites also.
Solution/Features
Customers having different SharePoint 2010/2013/O365 (SharePoint online) farm environments (Development, QA, UAT & Production)
It can help application users to raise personal efficiency resulting in increased organizational productivity, improved collaboration, reduced information management cost and reduced corporate risks. It’s truly observed the benefit of migrating the solution on SharePoint Farm as –
• Centrally accessible system
• Active Directory (NT-Authentication with Single Sign-on) authentication and
enhanced security
• Role based user rights
• Elevated admin rights in managing content, masters and users
• Improved service levels with ease-of-use forms, enabling one to one
communication between employees, authoring effective collaboration and
integration
• Enabled controlled communication using email
• End to end review capability using activity log
• SharePoint 2013 have more customization like Custom features, timer jobs,
Apps & web-parts
• Business connectivity services are using to connect data from external Data
Sources and LOB systems
• Custom Branding: Change the look & feel of the application based on
customer Driven branding
• Enterprise Search Capabilities
• Effective Document Management & Task Collaboration
• Record Management
• Reports/Dashboards/KPIs
• Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) implementation
• Customization: Based on the customer requirement, developed Apps & Web
parts
• Custom workflows to implement new business processes
• Custom features & timer jobs.
Customer production infrastructure designed in high available SharePoint 2010/2013
Farm environment consisting of tiered Two Web Front End servers, Four (4)
Application servers, and Two(2) database servers with hardware load-balanced with
failover capability.
Roles & Responsibility
• Day to day Activities, User Management
• Scheduled backups
• Moving Applications to different environments(DEV, QA, UAT & PROD)
• Implement High availability (Database level)
• Monitoring Server health
• Verifying Memory & CPU utilization
• Configured Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)
• Identifying Server patches and testing on DEV -Environment
• Deploying WSPs in all environments(DEV, QA, UAT & PROD)
• Configuring Search Application and Crawl configurations
• Identifying Application/Server/search/Crawl issues
• Creating New Databases & configuring in High Availability server
• Resolving Search Issues
• Writing PowerShell scripts for different implementations/issues
• Custom Server Object Model, Timer jobs, CSOM (Client Object Model),
JSOM (Java Scripts Object Model), JQuery…etc
• Custom Site Definitions, Lists & libraries…etc
Value Adds
• Wrote the reusable PowerShell scripts
• Consultancy on developing multiple custom work-flows
• Resolved long-standing Enterprise search issues
• Provided recommendations for Patch installation
• Completed feasibility study based on moving existing applications to AWS
and Azure and provided recommendations
Technology
• SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint 2013
• SQL Server 2008 & 2012
• AWS
• Azure
About ATMECS Inc ATMECS is a result oriented full-service engineering and R&D organization. We are Technology Accelerators bringing in visible transformation for our clients through automation, adoption of leading edge integrated development platforms, CI/CD, DevOps, Cloud, and Big Data. Several Fortune 500 customers and exciting next gen start-up companies engage us to partner with them to solve critical business challenges. As Innovation Catalysts we help clients lead change through AI/ML, AR/VR, IOT, Conversational BOTs & Blockchain.