Facts and Figures
By Pierre Colin
Romancing the Clone: How Avaya overcame major challenges untangling data from its Nortel acquisition.
• 10 month project duration (Aug 2010 - May 2011)
• 2,254 tasks executed by 228 resources from 11 companies around the globe in less than 96 hours during the cut-over process
• 9,479 modifications made to the cut-over plan before baselining
• 47 applications migrated
• Complete ‘interim’ data center built and dismantled
• 178 Servers installed and configured
• 4 enterprise-class storage arrays deployed
• Thousands of lines of codes developed for ‘one-time use only’ cleansing code
• 30TB of data migrated 4 times through the entire process
• Several hundred firewall rules implemented
• 30+ Extranets (ENCs) created with 3rd parties
• Hundreds of application interfaces re-configured
• 200+ test cases executed
• 445 helpdesk scripts created
• 35 IT self-service online transactions developed
• On boarded a new outsourcer