Migration News & Articles

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.

MetaVis (news, site) is a company whose goal is to help you manage and control your SharePoint environments. So if you are one of those companies who wants to use SharePoint for more than a gloried file share, the MetaVis Migrator for SharePoint is a tool you should consider adding to your arsenal.

Most websites today are data/content driven, which (happily for us) means content management systems are in demand. However, rarely do we stay with the same system forever. Business requirements and technologies evolve, life moves on and so do we.

The Dreaded Content Freeze Can be Mitigated

The trouble is, moving to a new content management system is often a hugely painful process, involving lots of manual labor. The basic truth is that machines are still no substitute for a subject matter expert, but content migration technologies have improved a bit.

One of the thorniest problems is the content freeze -- when all content production must stop. Things get especially distasteful when the freeze period goes on longer than expected. Unfreezing too quickly can mean systems get out of sync, and this is typically not an option.

A New Take on Content Migrations

But there is a better way. This new process:

• relies heavily on business rules
• is largely automated
• reduces content freeze periods, and
• delivers real time feedback as content is processed.

To learn more about how it works, check out A New Approach To Content Migration.  In this on-demand webinar, Kapow Technologies will guide you through their way of doing content migrations. They'll also discuss a recent project with Intel, where they claim they reduced migration time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes per page.

You can register now, but view the event at your leisure.

Everyone knows that web content migration projects are not a lot of fun. They are typically time consuming, tedious and costly. What's worse is that you rarely get exactly the results you want.

Traditional approaches to content migration were primarily manual. Even the QA process was manual and time consuming. In most cases one used vast resources to simply cut and paste content into the new format, dealing with transformation and formatting issues constantly.

Other approaches included database to database copying and scripting using CMS APIs to move content into the new Web Content Management System.

The demand for affordable and effective automated solutions is everywhere. And there is an answer.

Join Kapow Technologies for an on-demand webinar: A New Approach To Content Migration. 

[Note: This is an On-demand event which you can tune into at your leisure.]

Learn how automated solutions can help you:

• Automatically inventory content for migration
• Easily extract all types of assets, including text, images, video and files
• Transform and normalize your data
• Discover and remove duplicate data

Soothe business users and put less strain on developers, register now and learn about a better way to migrate your content.

Happy news for Microsoft aficionados: Fast Extract (FACT) for Oracle now operates on the Windows platform.

FACT helps unburden large Oracle tables onto to portable flat files in fixed- or variable-length formats with supported combinations of native SQL SELECT features.

Operating SQL*Loader and SortCL alongside FACT helps with high-volume reorg, replications, migration and reporting.

Parent company Innovative Routines International, Inc. also purveys CoSort, a data manipulation package.

Florida-based Innovative Routines today released CoSort 9, a data manipulation solution for Linux, Windows and Unix.

As if enough software companies haven’t already hitched their wagons to Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS), echo Technology announces the beta release of its all-in-one MOSS administration solution.

As we have covered recently , content migration is a hot and serious topic for many IT managers. Migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint, a heretofore unfulfilled niche in the market, appears to have been filled by Proposion Software.

Vamosa, again earning their classification as a Cool Vendor (we would prefer Nifty Vendor ourselves) in content management, has announced the release of free content analysis and migration software for Microsoft SharePoint.

In case up front clarification is needed, this tool is for, er, migrating content into, not out of a SharePoint system.