Xillio blog about content migrations

Content Services Dead or Alive? In March 2022, Marko Sillanpaa from Garter Research published an article with the title ‘No, Content Services is Not Dead’. The article recalls on Gartner’s …

Are you planning to re-platform from an on-prem or legacy ECM system to Microsoft 365? How can you ensure a compliant content migration with auditable processes for legal records, personnel …

Are you planning to migrate content to a new system? Your project approach will depend upon your migration framework. In this blog, we will share insights on migration frameworks and …

It is Moving Season! With the Labor Day weekend behind us, summer days are drawing to an end - and bringing with them a return to the realities of work …

A record management (RM) system is intended to store content for a long period of time, and to keep that content accessible all the while, while the correct retention and …

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, …