Content Migration & Export

Migration—moving the contents of one or more information systems to another—is at first take a mechanical task; necessary but mundane in any setting, even in industries subject to strict regulation. Yet many of these organizations, within the life sciences or financial services sectors for example, are being dramatically reshaped and changed in circumstances rife with competition, compliance pressures and liability. Now more than ever, operational excellence is an imperative. In these settings, the accurate, expedient, and verifiable migration of critical information is now assuming prominent strategic importance—especially where enterprise content management systems are used and relied on to manage compliant content and information assets. The demand for new efficiencies, better risk management, and agility are driving factors. Their manifestation includes business rationalization, organizational streamlining, and consolidation:

• New Systems—that must be populated with existing data and content before they can be put to use
• Systems Consolidations—that reduce structural costs through standardization and the decommissioning of disparate legacy systems
• Mergers and Acquisitions—that force rationalization of infrastructure, processes, and supporting technologies
• Upgrades—that are complex and difficult to assure due to customization and compatibility issues

Each of these requires a precise migration of content. Yet, doing so with demonstrable and provably correct results adds greatly to the challenge—as well the cost. Nonetheless, traditional best practices—handcrafting one-off migration scripts and using iterative, sample-based testing—are no longer adequate to meet mounting obligations for quality, safety, and organizational governance.

What, then, are the alternatives?

Meeting the Migration Challenge

For the first time, a comprehensive solution is available to enterprises that simply blows away the migration challenge—one rooted in four highly complementary products:

• GCI Power Tools Migration Manager —a product that supports the mapping and migration of content from a fileserver onto the Livelink ECM platform
• GCI Power Tools™ for Deployments —a product that supports maintaining content among various Livelink instances
• GCI Power Tools for Content Export —a product that facilitates the extraction of documents and metadata from Livelink in a format that can be provided to clients or other stakeholders.
• TRUcompare™ —an authoritative migration testing tool from the quality assurance and validation experts at Valiance Partners®

Together these products comprise all the requisite capabilities needed to accelerate and verify difficult migrations into the enterprise content management environment. How? By enabling the configuration of migration and testing rules in place of custom approaches and then automating their processes.

Bottom line: Less time, fewer required resources, lower cost and risk, and the documented evidence necessary to ensure compliance.

For more information regarding how we may be of service to you, please visit EnterpriseContentMigration.info and/or contact us.