Case Study: COWI (global engineering consultancy) achieves a seamless 10TB SharePoint migration with Metalogix Software's Content Matrix

COWI - Customer Case Study

COWI, a global consulting firm with more than 6,100 employees, needed to migrate its business‑critical SharePoint environment from 2007 to 2013 without disrupting ~6,000 end users. The migration required moving roughly 10 TB across 55,000 sites (11,000 active and changing weekly), transforming about 180 legacy customizations, and preserving business continuity over a two‑year program. COWI selected Metalogix Software’s Content Matrix to address these scale, customization and uptime challenges.

Metalogix Software implemented Content Matrix (leveraging its PowerShell scripting and incremental migration features) to perform a high‑fidelity, single‑hop migration and transform custom components into SharePoint 2013 functionality. The vendor helped migrate ~10 TB and 55,000 sites with virtually no downtime or data loss, keeping users unaware of the move; COWI reports no incorrect/missing/corrupted data, an evened content architecture (promoting departments to individual site collections in line with Microsoft guidance) and freed IT to focus more on business value.

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Henrik Nordtorp

Principal Architect at ProActive