A 13-year engagement modernizing collaboration technology across three generations of platforms — from Lotus Notes to the Microsoft 365 cloud.
Westinghouse Electric came to McKula facing a problem familiar to large enterprises: internal collaboration tools that had served their purpose but were quickly becoming a liability. Their workforce was built around Lotus Notes — a platform that had reached the end of its practical life — and the organization needed a path forward that wouldn't disrupt the operations and institutional knowledge built on top of it.
The challenge wasn't simply moving to a new platform. It was doing so without losing the solutions, workflows, and processes Westinghouse had come to depend on — and doing it more than once as the technology landscape continued to evolve.
McKula planned and executed the initial migration from Lotus Notes to a hosted SharePoint environment — rebuilding the workflows, collaboration tools, and document management capabilities that Westinghouse relied on, architected for the new platform from day one.
As Microsoft's cloud platform matured and on-premise hosting became less viable, McKula guided Westinghouse through a second major migration — moving their solutions into the Office 365 cloud environment and modernizing them along the way.
Today, McKula continues to serve as Westinghouse's trusted consulting partner — now working at the leading edge of Microsoft's Power Platform and Copilot capabilities, helping the organization leverage intelligent automation across their operations.
Because of their work with McKula, Westinghouse employees now operate in a modern Microsoft 365 environment — with collaboration tools that are actively supported, well-maintained, and built to evolve with the organization rather than against it.
More importantly, Westinghouse was never stranded. At each transition, solutions were planned, migrated, and improved — not abandoned. That continuity is what a 13-year relationship makes possible.