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Migration tools aren’t just for migrations any more! Using Blue Fish’s new migration tool, Migration Workbench™, it is possible to implement several new and innovative solutions to a variety of content management-related problems. These go beyond what we normally think of when we hear ‘content migrations’ and address issues such as archiving, publishing, the receipt of data from outside parties, as well as population of test systems.
This article describes how to write and use custom utility methods in Migration Workbench.
When migrating content from one system to another, don’t forget about the data that accompanies the content.
This paper will describe an approach to content migrations which mitigates or eliminates many of the challenges typically faced. By introducing the concepts of incremental migrations, live-to-live migrations, dynamic cutover, and rules-based attribute mappings, this new approach improves the efficiency of the migration process and reduces the negative impacts to users.
The intent of this article is to describe a migration approach we often see our clients attempt and to point out a number of key problems and concerns associated with this approach. Hopefully this article will help you avoid some common pitfalls when you are planning a migration, building a custom migration tool, or evaluating an off-the-shelf tool.
Multiple document management systems tend to evolve into a single Enterprise Content Management system. This article explores the benefits - expected and unexpected - that are driving this trend.
Remember, it’s not all about the technology and the wonderful new features and advantages of the new system. Hopefully this article will help you recognize the need to include migration planning as an integral part of your new and upgrading systems initiatives, thereby ensuring willing adoption by your user community.
This article explores six hypothetical migration scenarios from a high-level.
At Momentum 2004, Allergan shared its plans for migrating half a million documents from four disparate, outdated systems while upgrading to EMC Documentum Compliance Manager 5. Eighteen months later, the migration is complete. Join Allergan for the good, the bad, and the ugly of managing such a large project in a controlled environment. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with David McDonagh from Allergan.
With the continuing business trend of outsourcing to trusted partners, how do you assimilate the mountains of documentation they produce? This presentation offers a solution for getting large amounts of off-site information into your repository in a controlled manner. This presentation was given at Momentum 2006 with Dave Szweda from Solvay Pharmaceuticals.