Migration

While document management can be scary on its own, you also need to be cautious of the tricks associated with document management migrations too. In this blog, we are going to point out the different tricks and treats associated with some migration solutions.

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.

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?

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.