Case Study: Niagara Health System achieves a 22-week faster, high-fidelity SharePoint 2010 migration with AvePoint DocAve

Niagara Health System Reduces 60 GB Migration Of Data From SharePoint 2003 To SharePoint 2010 With DocAve® By 22 Weeks

Niagara Health System, Ontario's largest multi‑site hospital network serving 434,000 residents and more than 4,000 staff, needed to upgrade its SharePoint 2003 environment to SharePoint 2010. The IT team faced a complex migration: the native path required an interim 2007 upgrade that was labor‑intensive, risked data loss, and would force staggered go‑lives that complicated user support, so they sought a third‑party solution able to perform high‑fidelity, incremental, and scheduled migrations while preserving metadata and security.

AvePoint’s DocAve Migrator delivered item‑level and site‑collection migration with metadata/security retention, job scheduling, and responsive developer support for a tricky intranet transfer. NHS migrated 60 GB across 120 site collections in 30 weeks—saving about 22 weeks versus the native route—performed incremental moves, cut over all users at once for smoother adoption, and relied on a small support team to handle post‑migration queries.

Niagara Health System

Andy Naundorf

Systems Administrator, Niagara Health System