Intranet Migration · Durham
Intranet Migration in Durham
Moving a Durham organisation's intranet to a new platform, where the most valuable decision is how much not to bring. Old intranets are mostly documents nobody has opened in years, policies superseded twice and pages whose owner left — and migrating all of it faithfully recreates the reason people stopped using it.
Why this comes up
The problem
The plan is to move four thousand pages, and nobody can name who owns more than a handful of them.
What you get
What we deliver
- Content inventoried with last-viewed and last-edited dates against every item
- An owner identified per section, or the content treated as a candidate for removal
- Policies checked for currency, since superseded versions cause real problems
- A migration set agreed deliberately, with the rest archived rather than moved
- Permissions rebuilt from what is needed now rather than copied forward
- Search tested against the questions people actually arrive with
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what intranet migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- SharePoint Online
- Microsoft 365
- Viva Connections
- ShareGate
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Education
- Public sector
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Intranet Migration in Durham — common questions
- How much content typically moves?
- Far less than the inventory suggests, once usage is examined. A large share of pages have not been opened in years, and moving them recreates a system where the useful material is buried among things nobody needs — which is the complaint the new intranet was meant to answer.
- What about content nobody owns?
- Treat the absence of an owner as the answer. If no one in the organisation will take responsibility for keeping a page accurate, it should not be published — archiving it keeps the record available while removing it from what staff have to search through.
- Why not copy the permissions across?
- Because they encode years of exceptions. Permissions granted for a project in 2019, to people who have since changed roles, are carried forward invisibly — and a migration is the one realistic opportunity to rebuild access from what teams need today.
- Why is currency of policies so important?
- Because staff act on what they find. Two versions of an expenses policy or a safety procedure, both reachable through search, means somebody will follow the wrong one — and in a regulated environment that is a considerably more serious problem than an untidy intranet.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Intranet Migration in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise