Planning and Designing the Migration of Intranet Systems to the Cloud: Opportunities for Academic Communities

The last five years have brought to the world significant changes that some may or may not keep up with. The pandemic raised people's standards regarding the accessibility of information and the digital blast caught some institutions unprepared or resistant to embracing the new demands. However, with the advancement and maturation of cloud technologies and the rise in internet speeds, adapting to digital methods is no longer an unattainable ideal. Cloud solutions are easily accessible not only to small companies and businesses, but especially to public services and universities. We bring forward this study, which focuses on cloud migration and improving information access for students, employees, members of a community and not only. This was achieved by using cloud services, aiming to enhance existing systems from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, that currently lack accessibility and responsiveness. The aim is to compare the actual processes that are used based on SharePoint On-Premises to the SharePoint Online opportunities. This study emphasizes the need of automatization in certain administrative academic processes, which shouldn’t take as much time as they do.