Intranet migration to SharePoint
About InfHub, the School of Informatics SharePoint intranet.
What is InfHub?
InfHub is a School of Informatics SharePoint intranet.
Why SharePoint?
SharePoint is a platform that is now commonly used across the University. The searchability of SharePoint is better than that of the University CMS (on which InfWeb is built). We have also given content owners (professional services teams) responsibility for the management of the information they own by nominating SharePoint Champions within each team, so it is easier to maintain content.
An additional driver for migration of our intranet is a larger University project to update the University CMS (‘EdWeb’) from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 (concluded in December 2024) whereby we would have had to migrate all content from InfWeb to new CMS anyway. We have taken this opportunity to untangle internal content from the content aimed at external audiences, create a bona fide Intranet for Informatics, look at how we can make it easy for content to be updated, and improve the ability to search for information.