Case Study: Leading Mobile Communications Firm slashes maintenance costs ~70–80% and cuts server-side code footprint 10–15% with HCL’s SharePoint 2013 modernization

Leading Mobile Communications Firm - Customer Case Study

The customer, a leading mobile communications firm headquartered in Finland, engaged HCL to assess and upgrade its SharePoint environment to SharePoint 2013. They challenged HCL to shrink server-side code footprint, reduce customizations by 10–15%, simplify and replace custom features with out-of-the-box (OOTB) capabilities, enhance usability across devices, and prepare a roadmap to migrate roughly 3 TB of content and 9,000+ sites.

HCL assessed custom components, categorized applications for decommissioning, simplification, redesign or “as-is” retention, implemented responsive design, and replaced customizations with SharePoint 2013 OOTB features where possible while performing a best-fit migration analysis. As a result, HCL enabled a seamless upgrade, improved collaboration and enterprise search, reduced server-side code footprint by 10–15%, and cut overall maintenance costs by approximately 70–80%, while improving usability across devices.