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This blog and all content have officially moved over to http://www.axceler.com/blog. You can also follow the Axceler team at http://www.twitter.com/axceler

In addition, you can find me online at http://buckleyplanet.net, and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet

Axceler Ships Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010

Comprehensive New Migration Product Now Available, Reduces Risks Associated with SharePoint Migrations

WOBURN, MA – September 20, 2010 – Axceler, the leader in administration and migration software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the immediate availability of Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010, the first new product to be introduced as a result of its acquisition of echoTechnology. Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 offers comprehensive, risk-based control when moving to the latest SharePoint platform. Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 is available now from Axceler on Axceler.com.

Davinci Migrator reduces the risks, lowers the overall cost and shortens the time it takes to complete a SharePoint 2010 migration. By helping administrators with the discovery and planning of their migrations, Davinci Migrator delivers a unique feature set to the SharePoint market by reducing the number of failed migration attempts and dramatically shortening project schedules.

"Davinci is powerful and revolutionary for three main reasons. First, Davinci lets managers know whether the migration will succeed before the migration is done, saving precious time. Second, Davinci provides the granular control that an enterprise needs to prioritize, plan, and execute a SharePoint migration. And third, Davinci provides the deep SharePoint environmental analysis a migration requires to understand what’s involved ahead of time," said Garry Smith, General Manager echoProducts.

Davinci Migrator’s dynamic discovery and detailed planning system allows users to quickly and easily define the scope of their migration, identify problems before they occur, and even determine how long it will take to migrate. This enables them to plan and schedule on their own terms. By supplying migration estimates, reporting templates, and a powerful scheduling engine, Davinci helps users build more realistic migration plans.
Among the innovative features of Davinci Migrator are:

• Detailed pre-migration analysis and rules engine, allowing users to follow best-practices, identify issues during planning, rank them by severity, and recommend actions before moving forward;
• Support for both granular and entire-site migrations from SharePoint 2003 and 2007 to the new SharePoint 2010 platform;
• An optimized architecture for large content databases and complex enterprise configurations that have many SharePoint administrators per farm; and,
• Support for migrating in waves, based on user-defined timetables, priorities and severity of issues found, which reduces team and resource impact.

"Over the next 12 to 18 months, SharePoint administrators will need a reliable, comprehensive solution for managing their SharePoint 2010 rollouts effectively," said Michael Alden, President and CEO, Axceler. "Davinci Migrator and ControlPoint offer a powerful combination that reduces the risks of moving to SharePoint 2010 and streamlines the management of it once they get there."

About Axceler
Specializing in software for Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler has delivered award winning administration products worldwide since 1994. For Microsoft SharePoint, Axceler offers ControlPoint - the best way to get control over a SharePoint environment. ControlPoint gives SharePoint professionals the ability to manage permissions, copy sites, analyze activity and much more. Axceler's ControlPoint was named the Best SharePoint Product of 2009 by the editors of Windows IT Pro. The company’s recently acquired echoTechnology product line delivers comprehensive, best of breed migration solutions for organizations upgrading to newer versions of SharePoint, including SharePoint 2010. For more information visit http://www.axceler.com

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echoTechnology Acquired by Axceler, Launching Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010

A couple key press releases went out this morning, in case you missed them, including news that echoTechnology has been acquired by Axceler, based out of Boston, MA. The full press release can be found here

Axceler Acquires echoTechnology To Offer Industry-Leading SharePoint Migration

Combination of ControlPoint and echo Positions Company As the Leading  Provider of SharePoint Administration and Migration Solutions As Enterprises Get Ready to Upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint 2010

WOBURN, MA – June 1, 2010 – Axceler, the leader in administration software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced its acquisition of echoTechnology, the technology leader in SharePoint migration. With the acquisition, Axceler’s software solutions now address two of the most critical areas of SharePoint management —administration and migration — required as customers move to the new SharePoint 2010 platform. SharePoint migration is a natural extension of Axceler’s product portfolio. Both software companies are privately held and terms were not disclosed.

In addition, we have announced the impending release of our Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010, a next-generation migration solution that goes above and beyond other tools in its ability to give the user flexibility and control over their migration to the SharePoint 2010 platform. The full press release is available here

Axceler Announces Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010

Comprehensive New Migration Product Provides Intelligent Facilities For Upgrading To the Latest Version of Microsoft SharePoint

WOBURN, MA – June 1, 2010 – Axceler, the leader in administration software for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the release of Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010, the first new product to be introduced as a result of its acquisition of echoTechnology (please see separate release). Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010 offers comprehensive risk-based control when moving to the latest SharePoint platform. Davinci Migrator reduces the risks, lowers the overall cost and shortens the time it takes to complete a SharePoint 2010 migration. By helping administrators with the discovery and planning of their migrations, Davinci Migrator delivers a unique feature set to the SharePoint market by reducing the number of failed migration iterations and shortening project schedules.
Among the innovative features of Davinci Migrator are:

• Real-time collection of important configuration data, useful for discovering and planning migrations with known-risk profiles and timing;
• A robust configuration querying capability using full, industry standard SQL and an integrated Query-By-Example (QBE) interface;
• Detailed pre-migration analysis and rules engine, allowing users to follow best practices, identify issues during planning, rank them by severity, and recommend actions before moving forward;
• Support for both granular and entire-site migrations from SharePoint 2003 and 2007 to the new SharePoint 2010 platform;
• A powerful migration engine, built for both speed and for control, capable of consolidating from multiple platforms;
• An optimized architecture for large content databases and complex enterprise configurations that have many SharePoint administrators per farm; and,
• Support for migrating in waves, based on user-defined timetables, priorities and severity of issues found, which reduces team and resource impact.

It’s an exciting time to be a part of the Axceler team, and we’re especially enthusiastic about showing our customers all of the unique features within the Davinci Migrator at TechEd next week in New Orleans. If you’re planning to attend, be sure to stop by our booth (Booth 400). Or follow me on Twitter for all of the latest news @buckleyplanet

Looking for a talented SharePoint Sales Engineer

echoTechnology is looking to hire a great Sales Engineer in our Seattle office. The position has been posted on LinkedIn. Key qualifications include:

• Experience with SharePoint configuration and administration
• In-depth knowledge of SharePoint architecture, web based applications and general collaborative environment concepts
• Very good understanding of SQL Server 2005/08, Windows Server 2003/08 and Active Directory
• Experience and familiarity with our products and line of business a plus
• Self-motivated with a proven record of working in a fast-paced, high energy team environment
• Comfortable in the dynamic atmosphere of a technical organization with a rapidly expanding customer base
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to communicate professionally in written responses to RFPs, emails and when submitting reports
• Organized and analytical with an uncanny ability to eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches

echoTechnology is focused exclusively on developing, selling and marketing its flag ship SharePoint management software, echo for SharePoint. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices in Australia and Europe, echoTechnology is committed to improving the productivity of IT professionals migrating, deploying, changing and testing on the SharePoint platform.  Since 2004, echo for SharePoint has made changing SharePoint easy, for customers like the US Marines, Toyota and the UK Department of Health. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and are growing quickly.

SharePoint Saturday Boston

Planning to attend SharePoint Saturday Boston later this month? This free event, being held on Saturday, February 27th, is a fantastic way to get in front of SharePoint experts and learn more about best practices and leading-edge business solutions. You can register here for the Boston event, being held at Microsoft’s Waltham Building. I’ll be speaking on “Metadata (and IP) Management in a Social Media World.” Here’s a quick description of my presentation:

Many companies planning upgrades to SharePoint 2010 are reviewing their social media strategies, as users are chomping at the bit to deploy and use the new, natively supported features in SharePoint 2010. But most administrators don’t fully understand the taxonomy and governance issues associated with these tools. The intent of this presentation is to walk participants through the taxonomy and governance (and Intellectual Property) implications of the new social media capabilities within SharePoint 2010 (and 2007), providing guidance and best practices on how to track metadata, align these tools with broader corporate content management strategies, and maintain manageability of their SharePoint environment.

echoTechnology is a proud sponsor of this event, and we are providing a shiny, new Zune HD 16Gb to the raffle. You must be present to win! For more information about the other speakers and topics, follow this link. See you there!

echoTechnology Announces Release of echo FileLoader for SharePoint 2007

New File Share Migration Product from echo Provides Powerful Capabilities for SharePoint

SEATTLE, Wash. - January 18, 2010: echoTechnology is pleased to announce the release of the echo FileLoader for SharePoint 2007, offering SharePoint administrators a powerful tool to quickly and easily identify, organize, and move content and folder structures from file shares into SharePoint 2007. With echo FileLoader, administrators have flexibility and control over how content is moved from their file shares, with the ability to maintain, update, and transform their content, metadata, versioning, and folder structure.

According to CEO Garry Smith, “echoTechnology is liberating users from the tyranny of file shares” with the release of the echo FileLoader.

A premium version of the echo FileLoader is scheduled for release by the end of Q1, which will offer multi-threaded task management, support for SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010 environments, expanded content types, unlimited sites and rows, and more.

Additional SharePoint administration capability is available through the echo for SharePoint 2007 tool, allowing administrators to manage, migrate, load, and audit their SharePoint platform.

More details on the echo FileLoader, including screenshots and documentation, can be found online at echoTechnology.com/Products. In addition, a product overview video is available here, as well as a deep dive into product features here.

The echo FileLoader must be installed on a SharePoint or WSS front end web server. In addition, users must have administrative privileges on the front end server to use the application. Trials are restricted to making 100 file loads to a portal and are limited to 30 days. To download a trial version of the echo FileLoader for SharePoint 2007, please visit http://www.echotechnology.com/registration/Trial.aspx?PID=16&AID=0