Federal

Consolidating a fragmented federal web estate

Federal · National Institutes of Health

Programmatic migration of a sprawling legacy estate of Drupal, WordPress and SharePoint sites into seven unified, governed hubs.

Attribution

Delivered by our founder before Nexaces was established, as part of a prime contractor's delivery team. Listed as relevant experience, not as a Nexaces contract.

The problem

Large federal agencies accumulate websites. A programme stands one up, a lab stands another up, a decade passes, and the result is an estate nobody can inventory, on platforms nobody agrees on, with security patching and accessibility obligations attached to every one of them.

The work

Full-stack programmatic migration from a legacy network of Drupal, WordPress and SharePoint properties into seven consolidated, high-security hubs.

That meant custom Drupal modules for the destination platform, content-model transformations between three source systems that agreed on almost nothing, and cloud-native extraction routines on AWS to move large legacy datasets into the new architecture without a hand-migration pass.

Outcome

An estate that had grown without a plan reduced to seven governed hubs — which is the difference between patching and accessibility being a programme and being an archaeology project.

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