We recently discussed the concept of a rolling migration versus a more traditional big-bang migration approach. See our initial thoughts on development of a rolling migration approach for the eventual retirement of a client’s old system over time. After working through some of the challenges, we now have a system that can quickly move content into the new repository on demand. This post will discuss our results.
ImageWare from Cannon – Migration to Alfresco in the Cloud
As summarized in our series of migration posts, many of our clients are moving to Alfresco from legacy ECM solutions. For one of our current clients, we are moving from an onsite Canon ImageWare solution to Alfresco hosted within the Amazon Cloud. This post will share our experience migrating from ImageWare to Alfresco and include some specifics […]
Documentum and Alfresco Large Migrations – Thoughts on a Hybrid/Rolling Approach
One of the biggest challenges in rolling out new interfaces for ECM is migration from older/legacy systems. We just started working with one financial services client that, in moving toward an Alfresco and HPI 2.1 solution, has initiated a hybrid approach to allow the interface to be introduced quickly while simplifying and reducing the risk […]
Documentum and Alfresco – Migration/Upgrade Analogies
Last week, we put together an overview of migrations and OpenMigrate for one of our partners. The overview had a couple of interesting analogies regarding migrations as well as best practices that we will share in this post.
Documentum Search – Why the Google appliance just doesn’t cut it
Many experienced Documentum customers have attempted to leverage the Google appliance as an alternative to Documentum Search or as part of an Enterprise Search effort. One of our clients presented their experience at our user group meeting. This post will discuss their findings.
Documentum and Alfresco Migrations – Why the Migration Tool is Only Part of the Equation
As the developers of OpenMigrate, we are always amazed by how often a new tool is unveiled that claims to make migrations considerably easier. While we love what we have done with OpenMigrate, we also typically have to educate clients that a migration tool, just like other tools, is only part of the effort. This […]
Supersized Documentum Migrations and Upgrades Two Billion Documents and Counting
Two weeks ago we completed several of the largest Documentum migrations and upgrades we’ve ever seen. With short outage windows, we helped plan and support our client’s migration of their Documentum systems from a data center in the southeast US to the Rockies while simultaneously upgrading the repositories from Documentum 6.5 to 6.7 SPx. Altogether […]
Documentum D2 – Do you need to migrate?
We took a little break from blogging after EMC World. The big announcement during Rick Devenuti’s keynote was the introduction of EMA – Enterprise Migration Appliance from Documentum Consulting. We had surmised that, given a change in object model, D2 would require a migration but were corrected by EMC as you can see in the […]
Documentum – EMC World 2013/Momentum – Day 2 – Migrations and Upgrades
Interesting topic for 8:30 a.m. meeting after an open Vegas Bar (and a pretty good party – kudos to IIG). Migrations and Upgrades: Introducing EMA, the EMC Migration Appliance. With Chris Dyde and Mike Mohen. This post will present our thoughts on the presentation.