Sjoerd Alkema

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

We 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 …

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 …

Are you prepared for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? It’s coming and it’s coming quickly! That is May 25, 2018. If you are still thinking about creating a plan …

The advent of a new generation of modern content solutions and the desire of many organizations to cut the number of content systems is driving organizations to look seriously how …

Is your legacy ECM system out of date and are adjustments to, and maintenance of the system financially unattractive. Are you considering replacing your outdated document management system with Microsoft …

After the Documentum acquisition by OpenText, you may consider replacing your legacy Documentum installation with a new enterprise content management (ECM) system. However, migration of your outdated Documentum installation might …

Content migration is a challenge for any organization that wants to update their website, wants to replace their content management system with a new CMS, or want to replace an …

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 …

Our migration services team is often asked to join a project during a critical stage of its implementation, when the migration has already failed and has formed a bottleneck that …

A few weeks ago, OpenText completed the acquisition of Documentum. In various publications OpenText mentioned that it will continue to invest in all products from the Documentum suite that the firm …

If one market is evolving, it is that of enterprise content management. Here, we’re clearly seeing a number of trends, which are offering those in the sector many possibilities for …

Close your eyes, and take a moment to visualize this: ‘No more file shares’. What do you see? How does it feel? For me, first of all I feel this …

In this post I argue for more cooperation between the Web and Enterprise Content Management communities. And I’ll provide an example of mutual benefits to single-sourcing and classifying documents that …

Last week there was International Data Privacy day. Now there are international days for almost everything but still it says that it’s a hot topic. Which it is of course …

Do you find content migrations a challenge? Quality not what you were expecting? Business is complaining about it? Struggling to get the input of the business embedded in the process? …

The explosive growth of unstructured data we are all facing, is one of the reasons why many organizations nowadays consider cloud ECM solutions. However, having all enterprise content in the …

The Netherlands has recently seen two examples of drastic content reduction with positive outcomes for the organizations involved and their clients. Vodafone: 85% less pages During a project to improve …

Around 20% of the data in an enterprise is duplicate information, studies have found. There are many reasons why this is problematic. I'd like to highlight three. 1. Misinforming customers …