Why work with us
Strategic information management backed by decades of hands-on delivery
Organisations invest heavily in Microsoft 365, but real value comes from ensuring information is organised, governed, and managed in a way that supports both today’s needs and future innovation. We help organisations design and manage information environments that maximise the value of Microsoft 365, drawing on extensive experience in document management, migration, and organisational change.
Our expertise is built on decades of experience in document management, governance, organisational change, and hands-on delivery. This includes complex migrations from platforms such as iManage, organisational restructuring programmes, and large-scale content consolidation projects.
What sets us apart is the ability to combine strategic consulting with hands-on technical delivery. Alongside industry-standard platforms and migration tools, we regularly develop and adapt specialised solutions to overcome challenges unique to each project, helping clients achieve outcomes that are often difficult to deliver using off-the-shelf approaches alone.
Solutions
Information Strategy & Governance: Create a clear framework for managing information, reducing risk, improving compliance, and supporting effective decision-making across Microsoft 365.
Document & Information Management Modernisation: Modernise how information is organised, shared, and managed, enabling employees to work more efficiently and collaboratively.
Content Migration & Consolidation: Move information from legacy platforms and fragmented repositories into a modern, well-governed environment without disrupting business operations.
Organisational Change & Restructuring: Align information, content, and governance with mergers, restructures, and changing business models.
Services
Discover: Assess information assets, business processes, risks, and opportunities.
Design: Develop information architectures, governance models, and operating frameworks aligned to business objectives.
Transform: Implement change through migration, consolidation, automation, and modernisation programmes.
Govern: Establish records management, compliance, security, and ongoing governance practices.
Evolve: Support adoption, optimisation, and continuous improvement as business needs change.
About Clockwork Director Michael Hirst
Microsoft 365 Information Management Consultant
For more than 30 years, I have helped organisations improve the way information is structured, managed, governed, and accessed. Over the last 15+ years, my focus has been on Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, delivering information architecture, governance, document management, and large-scale content migration projects for organisations ranging from small businesses to enterprises with more than 20,000 employees.
The old front page:
I’m not quite ready to remove this so I’m keeping it underneath for a few days.
October 2025
I’ve got a few more grey hairs since I last updated this site, but I’m going to bring it up to date, including a more current picture 🙂
Since that last update I have continued working with SharePoint – both Online and On-Premise – mainly Document Management, Migrations, and On-Premise upgrades.
Clients have come from various places including London, Budapest, New York, Pennsylvania, Barbados, South Africa, and of course, Australia. Client industries include legal, banking, insurance, government, and various commercial.
In the coming weeks I’ll share some of my more recent learnings, things like:
- Extracting bulk data from iManage Cloud for migration or other purposes
- SharePoint bulk provisioning performance
- Upgrading old and somewhat corrupted legacy SharePoint systems
- etc.
I’ll also go over some of my old posts and bring them up to date.
If you want any help or advice on these sorts of topics, please feel free to send me an email.
Migrate your documents to SharePoint
Migrate your documents, versions and metadata from traditional SQL based Document Management Systems like OpenText eDocs & iManage to SharePoint Online and OnPremise:
- From iManage, OpenText, Documentum, FileNet and other traditional document management systems
- Designs for metadata and structure… to ensure documents are findable, fileable, shareable, securable, auditable … and usable!
- Provision (create structure) on the fly
- Validate source and destination files
- Tools and expertise to help you get it done right.
We can do it all if you want, but we prefer to help your staff get going and then step back and provide support when you need it. Your call.
Tools
- Migrating to SharePoint Online: The Clockwork Migrator is designed for SQL Server based DM systems, but with its SQLite staging database quite capable of migrating from pretty much anything
- Migrating to SharePoint On-Premise: The Clockwork Migration Tool for SharePoint On-Premise has been steadily migrating away for almost a decade
- For On-premise to On-premise we look at upgrading the content databases.
- For On-Premise (2010, 2013) to SharePoint Online we use a combination of our tools for provisioning and setup, and Microsoft’s own SharePoint Online Migration Tool
Michael has worked with companies with from 20 to 20,000 employees as they think about SharePoint, put a toe in the water, get serious about design, implement (and migrate) to Document Management in SharePoint.