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Head-to-Head: SharePoint Migration Tool Demo Videos | EndUserSharePoint.com — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:24:37 +0000

[...] Technologies, Metalogix, AvePoint, Idera, Quest and Axceler. The feedback was extremely exciting as people told us how much they got out of the sessions. Now it’s your [...]

By: Victor Chataboon

Victor Chataboon — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:02:34 +0000

Thanks Mark for putting this together. I hope everyone had a good chance to see each products’ “15 minutes of fame” and have a better idea about the products in general. Nothing more than I can reiterate from my colleagues – have a more detailed demonstration performed for you where you’re the audience. Give the product(s) that you like for a test spin after your questions have been answered. You’re the expert about your system; we provide you with the tools.

It’s this type of involvement that makes all of our jobs successful.

Thanks again!

By: Jean-Francois Mathieu

Jean-Francois Mathieu — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:15:45 +0000

Hi,

Thanks to all vendors. Very good presentation with key feature. I think It could be event better if each vendor had a common ground of comparison (ex: migrate SPD workflow, migrate to Office365, server side install, web base product, support 24/7…) in order to well understand and compare the products and in a second part the key differentiators.

So i think that the “head-to-head” could be:
- 5 min introduction,
- 10 min feature comparison grid,
- 5 min differentiators from other products.

Thank again, excellent job !

By: Darrel R

Darrel R — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:50:37 +0000

Really enjoyed the presentation, all 2 hours of it, not often I’d say that.

Nice to see the interests of the community somewhat dictate what was demonstrated. Wasn’t too much sales waffle in there neither. Upfront pricing is always attractive as it’s normally techies poking around under the hood prior to looking at the price tag. Personally speaking, MetaVis was the one that most caught my eye.

More vendor demo-offs please :)

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:48:43 +0000

Thank you to everyone who participated as a presenter and an attendee yesterday. There are two follow ups that might be of interest to you.

The first is that the recordings of the session came out nicely. I will be posting them for download on the site. I have offered each of the presenters a chance to write an article about their migration tool and we’ll link to the appropriate recording as the articles become available.

The second follow up is that Dave Coleman in the UK is offering to run an independent test, giving an unbiased critique of the tools for those vendors who would like to participate. I will be working with Dave and the vendors over the next week to establish a set of criteria for running a true head-to-head comparison test.

Again, thank you to everyone who participated. I thought it was a wonderful exercise, giving us a foundation for future events of this type.

Regards,
Mark

By: Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:42:45 +0000

The only thing missing was an AvePoint afterparty :-)

By: Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:37:54 +0000

You can count on Axceler’s ControlPoint to be there!

By: Malin

Malin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:20:26 +0000

Thanks for a great head-to-head! Half of these vendors I haven’t heard about and it was great to have a quick glance on what they have to offer. Though, our migration is over for now, but there will be others. I’m quite sure of that.

An idea for the next head-to-head: sharepoint administration tools. I’d loooove to have a similar 2h session with a bunch of products from where I could shortlist the one’s I’d like to try. (Just too busy to find out myself what is out there.)

And perhaps a 15 min presentation and 5 min question-time could be in place?

By: Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:08:12 +0000

Some very different approaches, indeed. And that’s why people need to download the trials and test them out.

By: Christian Buckley

Christian Buckley — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:05:17 +0000

Dave, that would be fantastic, and exactly my earlier point: unbiased, independent group with the facilities available. If you have the hardware and are willing to take charge, companies are going to jump onboard. You just need to make the testing criteria, measurements, and reporting of information clear up front.

Of course, the capitalist in me is wondering why you’d give this away for free? If you take the time to do the work, capture the data, and publish the results, why not sell your report? (I’m like the kid in the back of the class who raises his hand and says “Hey Teacher, I thought we were having a test today?”)