A Look at Automated Content Migration: Part 3 - Proventeq

By Barb Mosher (@barbmosher) Aug 27, 2010

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.

A Content Migration Vendor Refresher

It's been a little while so let's step back for a few minutes and review want we've done to date.

Kapow Technologies

We started our content migration review series with Kapow Technologies. Kapow has a content migration module that comes with — or without — their Web Data Server. With Kapow's migration module you can migrate content from just about anywhere to just about anywhere — this is a common theme with all the products we have looked at. Kapow utilizes robots that are configured (not coded) and can be tested prior to using in production. We also liked the bi-directional synchronization capabilities. Read all about our review of Kapow in A Look at Automated Content Migration: Part 1 - Kapow Technologies.

Vamosa

Next, we spent some time with Vamosa, a vendor that offers both content governance and content migration solutions. Vamosa's Content Migrator can be used on-premise or in the cloud, is a web-based Java solution and is also much more about configuration then coding when it comes to setting up a migration. With Vamosa, one of the things we liked was the ability to view your content and associated metadata within the tool prior to the actual migration. Read all about our Vamosa review in A Look at Automated Content Migration: Part 2 - Vamosa.

With that little refresher out of the way, let's move on to vendor number 3, Proventeq. To help us understand the Proventeq Migration Accelerator, we spoke with Eric Dubiner, VP North America, and Proventeq's Director/Founder Rakesh Chenchery.

A Focus On Content Migration

Unlike Kapow and Vamosa, Proventeq focuses solely on the analysis and migration of content. They have built both their product and their professional services around supporting enterprises with the migration of web, document and application content to new enterprise content management systems and/or portals.

Now we all know that migrating content is no simple task and that every migration activity is different. We also know that many organizations underestimate the work actually involved in the manual migration of content. With that being said, we won't spend a lot of time explaining the value of automated content migration.

Migration Accelerator

The Migration Accelerator is a client-server solution built on the Microsoft stack. It can be easily scaled out to support larger migrations and Proventeq in the process of adding support for the Oracle DB as well.

According to Proventeq, their Migration Accelerator is the only certified solution for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI (File Classification Infrastructure). The majority of their work is done with Microsoft and Oracle. The architecture is fairly straightforward:

Proventeq Migration Accelerator

An Iterative Migration Process

It's never as simple as set it up once and migrate. Proventeq's content migration methodology is an iterative process with a number of steps. Here's the at-a-glance view: