Start planning early. Clients often underestimate the amount of planning required for any type of migration. Migration often involves more than just moving content from one place to another. Many migrations also have to account for mapping metadata, folder structure, security, and other related objects from the source system to the target system. A typical […]
What makes migrating from a Legacy ECM systems so difficult?
While many of our clients are embracing modern interfaces for new ECM systems, migrating the content from a legacy ECM can often be a difficult effort due to the complexity and cost of a migration. Over the last 21 years, TSG has migrated applications and content for clients from a variety of legacy ECM envrionments (even […]
Migrating from FileNet in 6 Weeks – Case Study Available
As mentioned in previous posts, TSG has seen an uptick in clients choosing to finally move from legacy FileNet implementations to a new, modern ECM solution. While a decision to move to a new ECM is often postponed due to cost and time constraints, TSG has just posted a case study from one client’s experience […]
FileNet Migration – Best Practices and Client Experience
Whether it is a trend, just coincidence, or the fading of IBM’s influence in content management, recently we have had multiple clients request migration of FileNet images and documents as part of a long term plan to remove the FileNet/IBM solutions from their infrastructure. This post will share our experience and thoughts around migration from […]
New York Philharmonic Throwback – Take A Trip Through 174 Years Of Classical Music
Recently, Jody Avirgan from FiveThrityEight posted an excellent discussion with Barbara Haws, archivist & historian at the New York Philharmonic and one of our favorite TSG clients, detailing how the digital archive has grown over the last several years. TSG assisted NY Philharmonic in digitizing and ingesting terabytes of data which include historical documents, music […]
OpenText Migration to Alfresco – Best Practices with OpenMigrate
Recently TSG worked with an R&D client to migrate content from two legacy OpenText repositories into a new Alfresco environment using OpenMigrate. This post will discuss the process used to perform the OpenText to Alfresco migration, as well as some of the technical challenges that were encountered along the way.
FileNet Migration to Alfresco with OpenMigrate
TSG recently worked with a client to migrate nearly 4 million documents with metadata from 3 different FileNet systems to Alfresco using OpenMigrate. This post will focus on the technical approach used to migrate all of the content, as well as some of the unique challenges of the migration.
Documentum or Alfresco Migration Tools – What about Speed?
Back in 2013, Documentum announced the Enterprise Migration Appliance while pushing to get clients to upgrade to 7.x. Renamed the Documentum Enterprise Migration Appliance (DEMA), one of the selling points of the DEMA is a focus on speed. Architected for the “fastest migration possible”, DEMA was constructed to avoid the Documentum API and go directly […]
Documentum Content Server 6.7 – Primary Support Ending April 30, 2015 – What should clients do?
At EMC World 2014, Rick Devenuti shared 13 minutes into his keynote that only 25% of Documentum customers had upgraded to the Content Server 7.x after over 18 months of 7.x being available. While Rick spun this news to the positive, we had been posting since 2013 that many of our clients were hesitant to […]