Intelogy & Proventeq The Shipowners’ Club is a maritime mutual insurance association founded in 1855 with more than 33,000 members. It offers Protection and Indemnity (P&I), Legal Assistance and Defense cover, and associated insurance to small and specialist vessel owners, operators, and charterers around the world. This association has approximately 200 employees distributed across offices in London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Challenges

The Shipowners’ ECM system had more than 7 million documents, amounting to more than three terabytes of data, all to be migrated into the new SharePoint information architecture.

The existing Meridio system comprised a complex data structure, which had many levels of nested subfolders that did not facilitate collaboration, consistency, and findability. As the organization had recently initiated a digital transformation program, a system that allowed for easy collaboration, modern working, and efficiency was urgently required to meet the needs of their international team and clients.

Initiatives

To extract the data from Meridio into SharePoint, Intelogy proposed a partnership with Proventeq, whose Migration Accelerator product is specifically designed to migrate content from ECM systems, such as Meridio, to SharePoint.

The initial phase of the project required the creation of a proof of concept, providing the client with visibility of the proposed information architecture and collaboration capabilities on SharePoint.

Intelogy was able to analyze the client data set and propose a suitable migration plan, complete with a personalized term store and taxonomy.

Results

The new document and records management solution provides a global Search Centre, which when combined with Managed Metadata allows an enhanced user experience when searching the large data set. The new SharePoint environment allows secure external sharing and collaboration, meeting the organization’s requirement to operate in tandem with its members and brokers. The solution is integrated with Outlook, Dynamics CRM, and a range of internal custom solutions supporting Underwriting, Claims, and Loss Prevention.