Sword Group Partners with Metalogix Software to Speed Up and Reduce Risk of SharePoint Migration and Archiving Projects

International SharePoint and ECM Specialists, Sword Group, Leverage Metalogix Products to Provide Additional Benefit to International Clients in Regulated Industries.

WALTHAM, MA, September 8th, 2010 – Sword Group, an international leader in the delivery of business applications to organizations across regulated industries, and Metalogix Software, a leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving, today announced a partnership to provide added value to Sword Group’s SharePoint and ECM solutions through Metalogix Software’s trusted SharePoint solution products.

Terry Coyne, Sales Manager at Sword Groups’ UK ECM Division, explained that the new partnership with Metalogix “enables Sword to reduce the ongoing cost to our SharePoint client projects by using tried and tested off the shelf solutions for archiving and migration. Metalogix’s software minimizes project risk for us and for our clients”.

The partnership has already garnered success, facilitating a SharePoint 2010 global migration for one of Sword’s US clients with Metalogix’s SharePoint Site Migration Manager, and providing a simple and successful archiving tool for Sword’s SharePoint based legal document management solution to Lewis Silkin, a Sword client based in the UK.

Lewis Silkin, a London based law firm, has been working with international IT specialists Sword Group to develop an innovative document management solution in SharePoint for the legal market. Jan Durant, Director of IT and Operations explains, “in line with the solution vision, we needed to add on a seamless archiving process for our firm that was cost effective and easy to deploy and use. Having reviewed the market we chose Metalogix. Their solution was not only easy to deploy but made it very easy to find information. Added to this, we found the company to be highly responsive and supportive to us. I would have no reservation in recommending their solutions”.

Metalogix is a leader in solutions that migrate content into SharePoint, keep SharePoint environments running smoothly, manage the content throughout its lifecycle, and archive content for compliance and e-discovery. Metalogix migration products move content into SharePoint from almost any source system: from one SharePoint version to another (2003, 2007, 2010, WSSv2 or WSSv3), from Enterprise Content Management systems (e.g. Documentum, eRoom, Stellent (Oracle Content Server)), and from file systems, Exchange public folders, blogs, wikis and websites on-premise or in the cloud. The company’s storage management and content management solutions help customers to run SharePoint efficiently by minimizing the growth of content databases and reducing content sprawl. This approach maximizes SharePoint’s benefits for both IT and business units while reducing an organization’s total cost of ownership.

“Metalogix’s partner program selects exceptional partners, like Sword Group, who are passionate about technology and are committed to supporting the local market. Our mutual focus on helping customers take full advantage SharePoint's ECM, collaboration and publishing capabilities to improve productivity and reduce IT costs makes Sword Group a seamless fit.” said Rasool Rayani Co-Founder and Director of Metalogix.

Metalogix supports partners in all areas of the business so that they are self-sufficient in assisting the local market directly with locally-based sales advice and technical support. Sword Group is one in a growing list of Metalogix partners to have recently joined the Metalogix international partner ecosystem. For more information, please visit: http://www.metalogix.net/partners/metalogix-partner-program/

About Sword Group

Sword Group, an international Microsoft Gold Partner, delivers high value business applications to organizations across regulated industries. With operations in 37 countries, Sword today employs over 1700 people and generates more than $260m in consolidated revenue. An international leader in the delivery of Business Process Improvement solutions, Sword provides comprehensive support to customers across insurance & healthcare, legal, energy, banking & finance, telecoms, utilities, engineering & construction and the public sector. For more details please visit www.sword-group.com

About Metalogix Software

Metalogix Software delivers award-winning content migration, management and archiving software that enables organizations to migrate, manage, archive and recover enterprise content to ensure availability, regulatory compliance, efficiency and cost effectiveness. It supports its more than 5,000 customers worldwide from eight office locations; Boston, Dallas and Ann Arbor (U.S.), Vancouver and Halifax (Canada), London (UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Originally founded in 2001, Metalogix of Canada merged with the archiving business of H & S Software in 2008. The company is profitable and privately held. Metalogix’s investors include Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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