Tietoevry – Migrating business-critical information to a cloud enterprise archiving platform

Challenge

It was clear that there was to take the next step into digital transformation for one of Tieto’s key strategic forest industry customers by providing a single, unified, enterprise-wide archive where all information would be easily accessible for all employees. The preconditions were clearly communicated: an active archiving solution containing eight terabytes worth of documents – 70 million to be exact – was to be transferred and migrated. These documents were attached to day-to-day business processes like invoice approval workflows, meaning there were no excuses for downtime, or else business would halt. All of this had to be carried out in a very strict timeframe. To determine the most efficient way of migration, the first challenge proved to be the source systems themself: their built-in export functionality was limited at best.