InterAction
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Norton Rose Fulbright and Henry Davis York - Merger
In Australia the law firms NRF and HDY were merging under the NRF banner. Both NRF and HDY had their own installation of InterAction.
The project brief was to move all relevant HDY InterAction data from HDY's InterAction into NRF's InterAction system, to be run on the weekend of the two firms merger.
The project had to move all companies and people contact records including their core details like addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. Contact relationships and a number of years worth of activity records needed to be retained and moved into NRF InterAction system. Some of the folder structures, global additional field data and folder specific additional field data also needed to be maintained.
HomeDev designed and developed a custom SQL Server based migration solution that extracted the relevant information from the HDY InterAction system, into a migration database. This data was manipulated as required and imported into the NRF InterAction via a series of Application Collaboration loading processes.
The areas of relationships and activities were more complicated. HomeDev built two console applications that leveraged InterAction's API's. The applications read the data from the migration database and then called the required API "Add" methods to replicate the relationships and activities into the NRF system. These multi-threaded applications processed records at approx. 45 records per second.
A deduplication process was also developed to identify contacts that existed in both systems and would therefore be duplicated once the data had been merged.
The migration process was developed in a test environment, documented and numerous pass through tests completed to allow NRF/HDY to validate the outcome of the processes, prior to sign-off and execution against production.
HomeDev executed the migration plan on the Friday evening on the weekend of the merger between HDY and NRF. The entire process was executed on that evening and the system was live on Saturday for verification and testing.
No errors were encoutered and the NRF InterAction system was fully functional with combined HDY and NRF data on day one of the morning of the two combined firms.
The client was extremely happy with this outcome.
A few comments from some happy clients
It has been such a good job and we are so very happy that everything has worked as expected.
HomeDev were brilliant to work with on this project. We had a tight time frame to combine our databases and HomeDev delivered everything on time. They even fixed a couple of issues with InterAction that we were not aware of!
During the NRF / HDY merger I had to deal with many contractors and consultants. HomeDev, were by far the best that I had the pleasure of dealing with.
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