Case Study: London Fire Brigade achieves a seamless migration to SharePoint Online with Chess ICT

London Fire Brigade migrates 1.8 million files to SharePoint Online with Chess ICT

London Fire Brigade faced the challenge of migrating two critical on-premises SharePoint 2013 solutions, My Employment and Brigade-Wide Documents, to SharePoint Online before the legacy platform reached end-of-life. The migration was complex due to the large volume of sensitive data and numerous integrations with custom applications, and the organization lacked the internal resources and time to manage the project alone. Chess ICT was engaged to provide migration services and end-to-end project management.

Chess ICT implemented a solution that included building custom integration gateways to decouple the migration from a delayed new payroll system and to allow over ten secondary applications to interact with SharePoint Online without code changes. This approach, alongside a major data migration and the creation of an automation solution, ensured the project stayed on track. The result was a successful migration with no user disruption, significantly improved system performance, and the retirement of legacy hardware. Chess ICT delivered a modern platform that allows for future innovation.

London Fire Brigade