#upgrading sharepoint

SharePoint, as a web-based collaborative platform, has been one of the most popular platforms for collaboration and storage of data. It was launched in the year 2001 primarily as a storage and document management system; however, throughout the years, the product evolved into various editions which were characterized by different functions. The SharePoint Server, for example, is proffered to organizations that want to have greater control over their SharePoint’s design and behavior. The SharePoint Server is usually installed on the IT infrastructure of the clients. The Server seldom receives updates, but is highly customizable and is characterized by various features. It also has three editions, namely, SharePoint Standard, SharePoint Enterprise, and SharePoint Foundation.

Since there are various editions of SharePoint, sometimes clients find the need to upgrade their SharePoint to be relevant to their present-day needs. This updating may be in the form of migrating their contents to a newer version of SharePoint. Sometimes this upgrading necessitates the availing of new products and features. Yet, the upgrading process may be a bit complex for those who are not used to it, and for this reason, it would be better to avail of the service of someone who is better equipped to handle the updating and migration process.

Deployer as a Wise Choice

The use of Deployer by Tzunami is surely a wise decision if you want to upgrade your Sharepoint products to another SharePoint version. Tzunami Deployer can be used to upgrade SharePoint 2007 (Moss) SharePoint Server2013, and SharePoint 2016. It can enable very fast content migration from one version to another and could save you a lot of effort and time.

Tzunami for SharePoint is one of the products of Tzunami Deployer, and at present, it is the leading tool for SharePoint migration. It has been specifically developed to address the SharePoint migration requirements, and for this reason, it is very reliable. It could likewise help you save in the total cost of ownership and it could greatly facilitate any type of migration from Office 365 or any other version of SharePoint. It also offers rapid migration process to any SharePoint structure. Hence, it can minimize the risk involved in the migration process, and can securely move the data from one structure to another. With the Deployer at hand, IT managers can streamline the critical processes of business migration.

The good thing about the tzunami deployer is that it provides a very easy-to-use GUI or Graphic User Interface. Though this GUI is quite simple, it is however very powerful. It features the very familiar drag-and-drop migrations tools, the Explorer-like views, and the Wizards for more complex processes. It also features value and property mappings that allow users to readily manage the metadata migration without losing any vital information. Moreover, the security settings are also migrated with the data and content with the use of Deployer.

Tzunami Inc. offers companies and organizations a simple technical solution for migrating all of their computerized content to advanced SharePoint systems. The major SharePoint Migration Tool is a stand-alone separate application that is marketed under the trade name Tzunami Deployer. The Tzunami Deployer is a low cost, easy to use, multi-source tool for handling all of a company's migration and managing requirements.This application saves time and migrates with east electronic data to advanced SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online products and technologies.Furthermore, the Tzunami Deployer allows for the speedy setting up of SharePoint server structures and the easy transfer of data from older Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems.

 Tzunami Deployer's Special Features:  

·       Is the number one SharePoint Migration tool for fast migration and merging content into Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies.

·       Migrates from a large selection of systems into the SharePoint system.  

·       Allows for companies to upgrade or use their SharePoint system in a short amount of time and thereby very much lower expenses.

·      Supports the preparation of remote modeling and migration plans by means of working on virtual simulations of both systems.

 The migration of computerized content into SharePoint structures may be done speedily with Tzunami Deployer. Furthermore, Tzunami Deployer reduces the loss of information to a minimum with multiple ECMs (Enterprise Content Management) in one organization.

The key features of the Tzunami Deployer tool:

1.     Thanks to the application's powerful deployment wizard, content structure may be remodeled, customized, designed and redefined during the migration processes.

2.     The look, feel and design of the new SharePoint solution may be retained with the application's site templates and list templates.

3.     Content may be restructured and remodeled with the option to migrate from systems other than SharePoint.  

4.     The user friendly rule engine allows for automating the migration process.

5.     The application enables the mapping of properties to a different system.  

6.     Users have the option to map between various values.

7.     The application offers the possibility to perform security migration as part of the content migration.

8.     The application delivers multi-system support.

9.     The application provides detailed migration reports to help users verify the successful completion of content migration.

10.  The application has a sophisticated and versatile graphic user interface (GUI) which can be learnt with ease.

11.  The application allows for finding and filtering content, in order to retrieve the most relevant content.

12.  The application allows for the migration of metadata.