Xillio blog about content migrations and integrations

In 2020, localization program leaders face key challenges: move to an API-first software setup, and to make machine translation & AI work. Xillio hosted an expert panel webinar with some …

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 …

At their annual IT expo last November, Gartner unequivocally told 7,000 CIOs to “never ever renew non-API-first software.” Fortunately, most top enterprise software vendors already offer API-first products. When we …

The rise of MT and how it impacts translation is on the agenda at all translation conferences. Automation and connectors are nowadays also a hot topic. As concrete example, we …

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, because we are also in favor of handling migrations by …

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 …

Localization is undergoing a massive change. Many technological inventions like NMT are discussed at length, but the biggest change is more subtle and has an even bigger impact. Let me …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This is a very exciting week for us, and even more exciting month. We’re ready with the trial version of the Localization Hub, and almost ready with the final release …

In my previous post, I mentioned that we want to solve the industry challenge, and help integrate the content source systems with translation technology. It’s about time that we realize …

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 …

Woah! A 14-year-old Dutch company with a US startup vibe! – this was my first impression after I joined the team on the 1st of October. How the hell do …

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM, and formerly known as Adobe CQ5) seems to be getting more popular and we see a major increase in requests for content migrations from legacy web …

The translation process is one that involves many people and a multitude of content repositories and systems. Here is why content connectivity can increase efficiency and flexibility for all involved …

Migrating data to a new Nuxeo platform is usually seen as a huge challenge. Nuxeo is a modern content service platform that is able to handle a variety of use …

Content is stored on a multitude of content management systems within an organization. Let’s take for example promotional material of a specific product, such as press ads, websites, posters and …

thWe learned that digital transformation is driving legacy ECM migrations. After doing so many different content migrations from legacy ECM to new target systems, I have encountered lots of challenges …

Toiling through ten thousands of pages for a new website? There are much nicer projects to think of. Still, a lot of organizations think they need to use their expensive …

Managing localization projects from beginning to end, working closely with language specialists, developing project plans and workflows, managing time, budget and resources. Working as a Localization Manager means facing many …

In one of our previous blogs, we explained why IT consulting firms should build a migration unit. We found out that building a dedicated migration unit could help convince your …

Content migrations have the reputation of being complex and prone to getting out of hand. In the “old” days, the business case to upgrade or migrate to a new (on-prem) …

The abbreviation ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) that is used to explain the phases to execute migrations, does not only represent the physical act of extracting, transforming and loading data …

It’s any vendors goal to create new revenue streams whenever possible, and it’s not any different in the archiving business. Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) vendors, however, have a problem that …

Content is about the connection an organization makes with their (potential) customers. Talking to them in their native language is usually preferred. With hundreds of thousands of words written every …

Most HTML pages are a mess. I am no website building expert, but I have scraped a lot of data from a lot of different websites, and that is one …

Say, you built a brand-new website or do a CMS upgrade and you want to migrate your existing pages to the new content management system (CMS). It might be obvious …