With TSG is now part of the Alfresco family, we want to give new and existing Alfresco customers an idea of how to leave legacy ECM solutions using OpenMigrate. This post will include a high-level video along with additional links to other helpful migration topics. If you have questions or would like to see an […]
Federated Content Aggregation – Comparison to Federated Search and Rolling Migration
During some interesting discussions this week, the team brainstormed around federations of content and how to name a federated approach where we are doing more than just search but not bringing along all the baggage that goes with a migration. This post will introduce the concept of “Federated Content Aggregation” approach to content management. Federated […]
FileNet Migration – Migrating Billions of Documents Case Study
Technology Services Group (TSG) began working with one legacy FileNet customer in the summer of 2019 successfully migrating billions of documents for a large health care client from a legacy FileNet Image Services and P8 system. Bringing both products and consultative experience to the project, TSG was able to migrate the client’s FileNet implementation to […]
AODocs Migration with OpenMigrate
TSG has recently begun a partnership with AODocs, a new player in the Content Services Platform space. This post will present some background on AODocs as well as demonstrate a Documentum to AODocs migration with our product, OpenMigrate. AODocs Background AODocs is a software solution owned by Altirnao. They are a new company founded in […]
FileNet Migration – Not as hard as you think?
Over the last 10 years, TSG has been helping clients migrate away from old, legacy FileNet systems. We started blogging back in 2010 and included updates in 2016, as well as our more recent success with over 4 billion documents in 2020. While TSG has always believed that there will never be an easy button […]
FileNet Support – Migrating to mitigate the risk of an unsupportable product
As part of our recent migration of an over 4 billion document client from FileNet, TSG had the chance to have detailed discussions with multiple clients on the reasons they were moving away from FileNet to a more modern alternative. In this post we will discuss the most pressing reason, the large and growing risk […]
FileNet Migrations – Best Practices for Large Migrations
TSG just completed the bulk of activities to migrate over 4 Billion documents for a large health insurance company. This was one of our most complex migrations ever with over 4 billion documents and both legacy FileNet Image Services as well as a large amount of the content in FileNet P8. For this post we […]
Migrations – Why do they fail? (12 Worst Practices)
TSG has had some interesting conversations with various client prospects recently who were interested in TSG’s best practices for migrations. While you can find a lot of references here to migration best practices (One Step vs Two, File Formats Lessons, Migrating 11 Billion Documents) , we thought for this post we would be slightly more […]
ECM 2.0 – One-Step vs. Two-Step Migrations
As clients are preparing for 2020, TSG has seen an uptick in the number of requests for OpenMigrate support for migrating from legacy repositories (FileNet, ImagePlus, Mobius, CMOD…..) to a new modern ECM 2.0 repository. TSG will typically recommend a “one step” migration where OpenMigrate can both retrieve documents from the legacy repository and store […]