Latest Content Migration News & Articles

Your needs evolve, technology changes, vendors get acquired…something eventually inspires a change of content management platforms. But selecting a new system is only one step and likely not the most challenging one. Migrating your existing website and content, now that's another story.

This is what The Definitive Guide to Automating Content Migrations is all about.

The situation always varies, but you will likely face any number of challenges — missing digital assets, low quality or inconsistent metadata, resources linking vs. embedding, invalid HTML content, the need to restructure content into new fields, etc.

And let's not forget that it's unlikely you are migrating static web pages.

Has Automated Content Migration Arrived?

Kapow Software has stepped-up claiming a new approach to migrating content. They say they can eliminate what's known as the Content Freeze.

After a detailed content inventory, they propose a three step approach to content migration. The process starts with extraction using their Extraction Browser, which can process dynamic HTML and extract data from Flash. From there it moves to transformation, and ends with loading the content into the new CMS.

They say their system works for all types of structured and unstructured content and have case studies showing exactly how Fortune 500 companies have successfully migrated more than 300,000 web pages.

The New Inventory, Extract, Map and Migrate Process

The tools look impressive during the demos. But extensive testing we've not yet done. So before you drink the Kapow Kool-Aid (and fork over the cash) make sure you dig into the details and run real tests. Their Definitive Guide to Automating Content Migration is a start.

If you are ready to migrate your Oracle environments to the latest 11g versions, then Proventeq (news, site) has just introduced an update to their content migration solution that will help.

As you may have heard, governance and content migration vendor Vamosa (news, site) fell into administration, despite the recent investment of £1 million through Glasgow-based Maven Capital Partners. According to our sources in the U.S., Vamosa has been sold.

It's been awhile since we talked content migration, so we thought we would take a look at a couple of other solutions on the market. Proventeq has been in the content migration market since 2007, with a special focus on Oracle and SharePoint. Let's have a look.  

Vamosa (news,site) has some additional SharePoint capabilities in its portfolio through a new partnership with MetaVis Technologies. 

Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Obviously Ben wasn’t thinking about migrating web content from one CMS to another. But anyone who has spent time in content management implementation knows how his words apply here.

Metalogix (news, site) is at it again, offering another way to migrate your content into another CMS. This time it's for those of you who have a blog but are being lulled by the sweet song of SharePoint 2010.

Vamosa (news, site) has been around for a number of years now, but the latest version of their Content Migrator — version 3 — was just recently released. In this second article of our series (see part one covering Kapow Technologies here) we take a look at Vamosa Content Migrator 3.0. Come along for the ride.

The 6th annual Gilbane Boston conference kicked off today with a program full of interesting sessions, as the crowd was trying to find a way to be in two places at once (aside from following the #gilbaneboston Twitter feed). As a precursor to the conference, yesterday was a day full of workshops.

One of them — Content Migration, the Dirty Little Secret of Content Management – aimed to investigate the real stumbling blocks of content migrations and shed light on some techniques on how to avoid them.

When it comes to migrating your content to a new content management system, the only way to go is automated. In this article series we take a close look at several of the automated solutions on the market, starting with Kapow Tech's content migration tools.

Armedia's (news, site) new Content I/O Suite ties three software components together to create an integrated content collection, migration and delivery solution, one that the company thinks will take clients handily over a number of common enterprise content management hurdles.

As one of the most widely used document collaboration tools, it is no wonder organizations want to understand how to build better business processes in SharePoint. Of course, not all documents are electronic. Organizations still deal with a vast amount of paper-based information. So you look for document imaging software to help you get those documents into SharePoint easily. But once they are there, how can you leverage the SharePoint environment to improve your business processes?

MO Group International (MOGI) and Clay Tablet Technologies announced their intention to combine forces for mutual benefit. The two companies expect the partnership to impact translation and localization services, as well as multilingual SEO strategies and online integration techniques.

For companies faced with limitations in their first-generation email archiving systems, who are contemplating the inevitable compliance-related upgrade with trepidation due to the sheer mass of data already archived in the old system, Mimosa now offers a "Move to Mimosa" Legacy Migration Program.

It's official. Apture has partnered with the washingtonpost.com.

The web publishing and content compilation technology provider will now offer the infamous paper's online readers a "highly engaging" way to view political data, congressional records, video, news and abstracts within a single washingtonpost.com browser experience. In exchange, washingtonpost.com plans to make such data and content available to any blog or website that uses the Apture publishing platform.

Are you in the loop on this? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) has been approved by the W3C. With it, comes discussion among W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative about what’s new with these guidelines as well as the resources that will be available for web developers and designers.

There's a new player at the OASIS CMIS Technology Committee table. Vamosa is a provider of Information Logistics — which basically means they help you with your content in any way possible. From moving, to monitoring, to maintaining and manipulating, Vamosa knows how to make your content work.

Makes sense they would want to be a part of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (just felt like saying that whole thing…). CMIS will provide structure for how organizations need to make their content available for cross-repository chatter.

There is probably no worse strategy for an intranet or public website than content migration. It is doomed to failure from the very start.

If you have ever seen “content migration” go from being a single line in a project plan to being a never-ending saga of tedious database scripting and failed migration attempts, then take heed: there is a tool available.

It often seems that the primary purpose of localization is to create unreadable English that is cheap to translate into unreadable German.