In the sixth installment of our “Migrating to…” webinar and white paper series, we were pleased to be joined by Mike Mahon, CEO of Zia Consulting, to talk about the best tips and tricks for Alfresco migration. Since he provided some great feedback and insights, we thought we could take a minute to share some of his comments.
How An Outdated ECM Strategy Could Be Holding You Back
We hear it all the time. Legacy ECM systems are holding organizations back. Have you stopped to consider that maybe the problem isn’t just your legacy system, but that it could be the strategy surrounding your ECM?
Don’t Fall for Push Button Migration Solutions
While push-button migration tools sound like a dream come true, they have been known to lead organization begging for help after they have failed. Don’t get us wrong, for smaller, straightforward migrations it may make sense, but if your objective is to migrate millions of documents across multiple repositories, with customized or complicated metadata schemes, you need to be cautious when selecting a migration solution.
Dan’s Dev Corner – September 2017
When we were designing Echo, one of the primary goals was to build a single product that would handle a wide variety of synchronization algorithms. Both from our own experience and talking to numerous customers, it was clear that use cases were pretty different even though they all involved moving data and keeping it in sync. So, instead of trying to invent a gigantic algorithm with hundreds of parameters and options, we decided to create many different, specialized Rulesets.