Azati helped a major Oil & Gas enterprise consolidate 30+ fragmented SharePoint portals into a standardized migration framework, reducing governance uncertainty and enabling large-scale modernization planning across hundreds of thousands of enterprise content entities.
legacy enterprise portals analyzed and classified
pages, links, and content entities audited
SharePoint customizations beyond initial estimation
The client is a large oil & gas enterprise operating a distributed SharePoint infrastructure with strict security requirements and complex cross-departmental workflows.
Over time, independently developed portals created fragmented collaboration environments with inconsistent navigation, duplicated content, unsupported customizations, and undocumented dependencies. The organization launched a large-scale migration initiative to consolidate these environments into a unified enterprise platform.
This migration initiative was more than a tech portal transfer. It demanded structured enterprise content governance and standardized navigation, permissions, metadata management, and stakeholder coordination.
The client’s internal collaboration infrastructure was distributed across multiple generations of SharePoint environments. Each department evolved its own navigation, access policies, integrations, and custom web components. These hindered migration planning and platform standardization.
Every migration decision required manual coordination with business stakeholders. Over more than 10 years of operation, the portals accumulated:
The infrastructure contained numerous unsupported and undocumented SharePoint customizations. Many components lacked tech owners and documentation, leaving their compatibility with the target platform unknown. This made the migration much riskier and harder to verify.
Azati was chosen for strong experience in enterprise modernization projects involving fragmented legacy environments, distributed stakeholders, and evolving operational requirements. The team expertly handles inconsistent documentation.
The project demanded extensive manual inventory analysis and migration validation across dozens of enterprise portals, which Azati expertly tackled. During another engagement for this client, Azati’s QA team identified critical calculation instability during regression testing shortly before production release, helping prevent operational disruption.
The specifics of this engagement lay in operating within a highly restricted enterprise environment. Namely, this involved remote access to secured corporate machines, disabled clipboard functionality, and isolated infrastructure. Despite these constraints, Azati managed to maintain stable delivery workflows and documentation quality throughout the project lifecycle.
Azati previously supported multiple engineering and QA initiatives for the client, including reservoir analytics platforms, operational modules, and enterprise calculation systems.
Azati helps enterprises validate legacy infrastructures and modernize enterprise portals, reducing operational disruption during consolidation.
Validate your legacy infrastructureThe Azati team conducted a structured business analysis and comprehensive quality assurance focused on legacy portal assessment and migration validation.
Azati analyzed approximately 30 enterprise portals running on different SharePoint versions to define their functional structures, business logic, and dependencies. Part of the job was to manually review exported portal links and document content type, page status, business relevance, duplication risks, and migration feasibility.
The next step was to develop a structured content classification model to facilitate migration decision-making. This helped Azati minimize uncertainty across departments with different priorities and approval cycles.
Azati prepared enterprise migration documentation to standardize future modernization activities and platform governance.
Azatians validated that migrated functionality behaved as expected after transition to the target platform environment.
| Area | Azati contribution |
|---|---|
| Portal audit | SharePoint version compatibility analysis, migration readiness verification. Assessed 30+ legacy SharePoint environments |
| Governance | Defined migration, archive, and delete criteria |
| Validation | Dependency mapping. Verified workflows, permissions structure, and accessibility |
| Documentation | Standardized migration governance package |
| Stakeholder coordination | Managed cross-department approval workflows |
Azati identified 15% more unsupported SharePoint customizations than originally estimated during migration analysis.
The number of portals and content entities requiring analysis changed throughout the engagement. Additional challenges that Azati tackled included:
Azati’s analysts manually reviewed exported portal links to determine content existence, operational relevance, structured data presence, and migration suitability. This was critical for reducing migration risks associated with outdated or orphaned enterprise content.
Azati navigates messy, outdated environments and complex stakeholder coordination while delivering for regulated industries.
Request complex environment audit| Metric / area | Before engagement with Azati | After engagement with Azati |
|---|---|---|
| Migration readiness visibility | Fragmented across ~30 portals | Centralized migration baseline established |
| Unsupported customizations | Unknown | Previously undocumented dependencies identified |
| Content governance | No unified rules | Standardized migration, archive, or delete framework |
| Content ownership | Missing across systems | Structured ownership and relevance mapping |
| Migration planning confidence | High operational uncertainty | Validated enterprise migration framework |
A solid legacy portal consolidation strategy de-risks complex transitions. Azati has your back when it comes to strategizing and heavy lifting, from classifying business-critical content to standardizing migration criteria, and beyond.
De-risk legacy portal consolidationWith this engagement model, Azati ensured predictable delivery planning despite evolving migration priorities and documentation scope, expanding portal inventories, and delayed stakeholder approvals.
The Scrum methodology helped Azati coordinate migration analysis across departments, plan a phased migration, and manage evolving backlog and documentation activities across multiple stakeholders and business units.
Azati validated and established standardized migration governance criteria.
Legacy enterprise content entities Azati audited and classified to systemize migration governance. These were accumulated over 10+ years of decentralized SharePoint usage.
Azati helped reduce operational disruption risks via centralized inventory mapping and dependency validation, resolving ambiguity in migration decision-making across distributed business units. The team improved modernization readiness with scalable consolidation planning and content governance workflows across business units.
Azati mapped unsupported components before migration execution planning. The team delivered unified migration specifications, governance criteria, inventory documentation, and approval workflows aligned with enterprise modernization requirements.
The project facilitated enterprise portal consolidation across fragmented SharePoint environments, improving migration transparency, content traceability, and understanding of legacy dependencies.
By combining manual inventory analysis, functional validation, and structured documentation workflows, Azati helped reduce operational uncertainty. The team paid close attention to:
During this migration initiative, Azati established a framework for enterprise portal consolidation and modernization of legacy internal infrastructure. The resulting environment follows standardized governance and navigation structures.
The successful engagement strengthened Azati’s long-term partnership with the client, powering further enterprise modernization initiatives within their digital ecosystem.
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