The company needs to migrate to Office 2003 because: Enhancements for Office 97 will be withdrawn in 2004Third party applications run by TRUMPF need an upgraded version of OfficeTRUMPF wants to use the additional features available in Office 2003, which increase productivity

Since the rollout of Office 97, many Office documents and Office applications were created. TRUMPF headquarters alone owns around 5 million Office documents. The number of decentrally developed applications is unknown. For a reliable migration to proceed, detailed planning information about the current Office infrastructure is essential.

Solution
Avanade leveraged its Office Migration Accelerator Assessment to yield the following: 

• Office infrastructure inventory: The Office Migration Accelerator automatically gathers all the information available about Office documents in the environment. This includes the identification of all new Office applications.
• Migration Complexity Analysis: Avanade’s Office Infrastructure assessment divides all critical application code into various classes of migration complexity. It also identifies any applications that will be incompatible with the new environment.
• Migration Recommendations: This provides recommendations for a successful migration phase including the build-up of an alternative infrastructure for incompatible applications.

Results

• Detailed knowledge about the whole Office infrastructure, including all decentrally developed applications and their complexity.
• Identification of business critical Office applications.
• Identification of applications incompatible with Office 2003.