AT&T Intranet Portal Migration: Moving Custom Web Apps into One DotNetNuke Portal
Project overview: one intranet portal for AT&T Insights
We provided consulting, integration and development services for AT&T Government Solutions' Insights corporate intranet application suite, migrating a mix of hybrid and home-grown custom web applications into a single DotNetNuke portal.
About AT&T Government Solutions
AT&T Government Solutions provides information technology solutions to the federal government. It combines AT&T's network resources and managed IT expertise with technology from AT&T Labs and a team of industry partners.
The challenge: an intranet spread across many custom apps
Insights was AT&T's corporate intranet application suite. Over time it had grown into a variety of hybrid and home-grown custom web applications, some built on a Plumtree portal SDK. Each app had its own way of doing things, which made the intranet harder to use, maintain, and extend.
The goal was one intranet portal: a single place for employees to reach the Insights applications, on a platform the team could keep improving.
Consulting, integration, and development
We provided consulting, integration, and development services for the migration to a single portal built on DotNetNuke (now DNN Evoq), the content management and portal platform built on ASP.NET. Our work covered:
- Software architecture design for the new portal.
- DotNetNuke module development to bring the existing applications into the portal.
- DotNetNuke skinning and SkinObject development for the portal's look and navigation.
- Custom .NET development wherever the applications needed it.
- IT infrastructure design guidance and implementation support.
Reverse engineering the Plumtree portal SDK
Several Insights applications were built against a Plumtree portal SDK. We reverse engineered the Plumtree SDK and redeveloped it for DotNetNuke, so the applications that relied on it could move to the new portal. That work made the migration possible without rewriting every application from scratch.
Working inside AT&T's Scrum team
Our team worked with AT&T's Scrum team on the migration, helping with best practices along the way. AT&T Government Solutions Product Owner Quentin Gilbert said our ability to do that "was essential to migrating a legacy web site to DotNetNuke."
Intranet and .NET modernization
We still do this kind of work through legacy modernization and .NET modernization, and through web applications for telecom and government teams. To add engineers, you can hire .NET developers through Maxiom.dev.
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Maxiom Technology's ability to work with a Scrum team, coaching best practices and avoiding pitfalls was essential to migrating a legacy web site to DotNetNuke.
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Frequently asked questions
What did Maxiom build for AT&T?
We provided consulting, integration, and development services for AT&T Government Solutions' Insights corporate intranet application suite, migrating a variety of hybrid and home-grown custom web applications into a single DotNetNuke portal.
What is an intranet portal?
An intranet portal is a private website for a company's employees that brings internal applications, documents, and tools together in one place, usually behind a single sign-in and shared navigation.
What is DotNetNuke?
DotNetNuke, now called DNN, is a content management and portal platform built on Microsoft ASP.NET. Developers extend it with modules, skins, and SkinObjects, which is how we brought the Insights applications into one portal.
Why did Maxiom reverse engineer the Plumtree portal SDK?
Several Insights applications were built against a Plumtree portal SDK. We reverse engineered it and redeveloped it for DotNetNuke so those applications could move to the new portal without being rewritten from scratch.
How do you migrate many custom web apps into one portal?
Start with the architecture of the target portal, then move applications in a planned order. Build modules for each app, handle a shared dependency like an old SDK once, and keep a common look and navigation through skinning.
What did AT&T say about working with Maxiom?
Quentin Gilbert, Product Owner at AT&T Government Solutions, said: "Maxiom Technology's ability to work with a Scrum team, coaching best practices and avoiding pitfalls was essential to migrating a legacy web site to DotNetNuke."
Does Maxiom still do intranet and legacy migrations?
Yes. We move old ASP.NET, portal, and custom applications onto modern platforms through legacy modernization and .NET modernization.
Can Maxiom work with our in-house Scrum team?
Yes. On the AT&T project we worked alongside AT&T's Scrum team. We can join your team the same way, or you can hire .NET developers through Maxiom.dev.