Content Migration News & Articles

Are your digital assets liquid? Can you easily move them from one system to another?

Change is constant. Evolution has always pushed us to migrate to a more assured state. You don’t have to be Darwin to realize that software development is no different in this regard. Migration becomes all the more relevant in the Enterprise CMS space when looking at the rapid pace of development driven by new requirements that concepts like content intelligence create.

The case for migration is further strengthened in light of the shifting Enterprise CMS Vendor landscape, which has been witness to a high level of consolidation in the last few years. The total to be spent on data migration has been projected to be roughly US$ 8 billion in the coming year and considering that more than 80% of data is unstructured, the Enterprise CMS migration market will be blossoming. In this article, I am going to share my experiences on how to plan and execute an ECM migration project.

Web CMS vendor Sitecore has announced a partnership with Kapow Software that will make it easier for customers to migrate legacy content into Sitecore. The new integration eliminates the often time-consuming and frustrating process of moving content out of the wild into the CMS.

Kapow Software has done some major damage with the Kapow Katalyst Application Integration Platform-- in a good way.  The company just announced their best fiscal Q1 in their personal history. Read on if you've got an enterprise-sized appetite for integration capabilities, content migration, mobile enablement, web intelligence, and business process automation. 

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.

In the first session of day three of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual Meeting, the discussion continued on the collection development in the area of born-digital papers, and the management of born-digital assets.

Even with everything that has been done to SharePoint 2010 since its release last year, including its incorporation into Office 365, migration of content and applications remains a problem. Binary Tree has taken a new approach to the problem with the release of their Application Transformation Framework (ATF) that supports the transformation of applications from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint.

TERMINALFOUR (news, site) released SiteManager 7.1 today with an eye to getting more companies out of their current web content management system and into t4's. But that's not all that's new in this latest release.

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.

Depending on your situation, you will face any number of different challenges -- missing digital assets, metadata all over the place or missing, linked resources, content restructuring. 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 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, including content such as email, calendars and blog posts.

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.

Most of you know Kapow Software (news, site) as a provider of data integration and content migration solutions. And that's exactly what they do. But yesterday the vendor announced a new version of their data integration platform. One they say will change the way to you think about content integration. One that could make your next project a lot easier.

When Microsoft (news, site) announced that it was rebranding a revamped BPOS as Office365 last month, it failed to mention when it would be released. AvePoint (news, site) is not waiting around however, as it already announced the launch of beta support for Office 365.

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.  

MetaVis (news, site) has added support for a couple of SharePoint 2010 capabilities that should allow organizations to more easily take advantage of the new features.