Xillio blog about content migrations

As I was listening to the webinar Top Tips & Best Practices for Migrating to M365 Top Tips with Alistair Pugin and Loryan Strant, I was struck once again by …

Every time I do a file share analysis for a customer, I am surprised about the large number of duplicate files that are found on their file shares. A simple …

The enterprise content world is changing. Content is exploding. Costs and risks are growing. Gartner warns enterprises must recognize the extraordinary growth in enterprise petabytes. Keeping storage for data under …

Since the announcement by Microsoft of its Project Cortex, at the 2019 Ignite event, there has been a buzz on what to expect from this entire new development. Entirely new? …

In a former blog, we have tried to convince you that it would be wise to store business documents in an enterprise content management system instead of on file shares …

Quantifying your web content is a useful exercise, especially when you are at the starting point of a CMS or website migration. Doing such an analysis will give insights in …

Phasing out a legacy ECM (e .g., Livelink, FileNet, OpenText, Documentum) and embracing a modern and more cost-efficient system is becoming urgent for enterprises nowadays, especially when remote-work is necessary and more …

Are you looking to retire your instance of Documentum and embrace SharePoint online? Then one of your main concerns could be how to transfer metadata from Documentum to SharePoint. Migrating …

Every time I do an analysis of a customers’ enterprise content management system or network drives, I am surprised about the large number of duplicate files that are found on …

Preamble Back in 2001, when companies like Zylab, Livelink and Kofax where still only doing Document Management and Image Capture, everything was disparate. Physical paper was scanned, indexed, classified and …

Preamble For the longest time, SharePoint consultants have spent a considerable amount of effort having to migrate from one version of SharePoint to the next version of SharePoint. Custom applications, …

In an automated migration, data is moved between information repositories using computational power. But what is data, a repository, and what does automation add? What is Automated Migration? Simply put …

When it comes to migrating legacy enterprise content management (ECM) systems to Microsoft 365, the common understanding in the industry is that replacing legacy ECMs is difficult and risky. This …

In the past, you might have relied on your legacy ECM system to manage documents and records. However, you might have realized that the system can be improved. Microsoft Office …

Although you might think you are familiar with the access date on your data, a lot of people mistake it for the modified date. The access and modified date and …

Ok, so we have been migrating records and data out of legacy ECM systems for a very long time and once in a while we encounter systems that we don’t …

One of our most common and most asked for content migration, is Documentum to Microsoft 365. There are a few specific challenges in mapping and restructuring that you need to …

An introduction to Project Cortex Its a new Microsoft 365 product designed to create a knowledge network from enterprise content, managing large volumes of enterprise content through a suite of …

Most organizations rely on one or more Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems to manage documents and records, but realize that the systems could be improved. Too much manual process Slow …

It’s already been a year, since we launched the first version of Xillio Insights. Our clients use this tool to generate insight on their unstructured information, their ECM, collaboration and …

Recently we have been working with clients that want to migrate their large legacy ECM/EDM content to a new solution. As costs - and support associated with - on-premise systems …

What is keeping legacy systems alive? Fear. So why are people so afraid of getting rid of their legacy ECM systems? Let’s discuss! I keep hearing the same three reasons why organizations continue to choose to keep their legacy ECM systems alive: Reason 1: “There is no …

Maybe you have spent the holidays binge watching Marie Kondo’s show on Netflix. At least my wife did ;) I hate to admit that the show was actually quite inspiring …

Hi there, SharePoint 2010 user. You probably already know that SharePoint 2010 is ‘soon’ to reach its end of life. As from October 2020, SharePoint will no longer issue security …

Big bang, or not? Most organizations do not like a big bang approach when it comes to content migration. Fortunately, we are also in favor of handling migrations by department, …

Migrations are known to be hard, complex and risky. All true and not. Migrations often fail, that is true for sure. But why do they fail? That’s the question. This …

For a large US financial services company, we successfully deployed a large migration project from multiple repositories - being Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC), SharePoint, FileNet, Sybase, and DB2 - into a new …

I am working in the enterprise content management, content services, information management - what’s in the name - market for more than 12 years now. Enterprise content management systems that …

The past decade we have seen thousands of organizations migrating their content from network/file share locations to managed content solutions, such as SharePoint. Anyone who has experience with migrating file …

The adoption of cloud enterprise content management systems, high costs of on-premise installation and the evolution of ECM and solutions, are probably the main drivers for organizations to move away …