Case Study: WestLotto achieves 5-minute item-level SharePoint restores and automated backups with AvePoint's DocAve

Westdeutsche Lotterie Moves, Backs up, and Granularly Recovers Microsoft® SharePoint® Content with DocAve

Westdeutsche Lotterie (Westlotto), the state-licensed lottery operator for North Rhine‑Westphalia, implemented SharePoint to centralize documents and support 365 users across offices. They found native SharePoint backup and restore insufficient for compliance and operations: they needed 90‑day retention, hourly incremental backups, item‑level restores (not full content database restores), and a way to move Nintex workflows from test to production without disruptive restarts or heavy PowerShell scripting.

Westlotto implemented AvePoint DocAve (Backup & Restore and Content Manager) to schedule automated full daily and hourly incremental backups with 90‑day retention, perform granular item‑level restores (restoring an item in about five minutes—99% faster than native tools) while preserving metadata, and move content and workflows between environments with full fidelity. The centralized platform reduced restore and migration time, cut manual effort, and lowered operational costs.

WestLotto

Holger Engeln

IT Services Applications Manager