FileNet to FileNet Cloud Migration

Modernize your IBM FileNet infrastructure with a seamless migration to FileNet Cloud, unlocking scalability, reduced costs, and enhanced performance.

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Source

  • IBM FileNet P8 platform
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager

Target

  • FileNet Cloud
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Why FileNet Cloud Migrations Are Uniquely Challenging

 While migrating from FileNet P8 on-premise to FileNet Cloud might seem straightforward, fundamental architectural differences create complexity. Cloud instances have different storage models, API limitations, and performance characteristics. Custom integrations, third-party applications, and on-premises authentication systems require reconfiguration.

Additionally, organizations must validate that customizations, event actions, and workflow processes function identically in the cloud environment while optimizing for cloud-native performance. 

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How Xillio Addresses This?

Pre-Migration Analysis with Xillio Insights

Pre-Migration Analysis with Xillio Insights

We analyze your FileNet environment to identify customizations, external integrations, and potential cloud compatibility issues. This assessment includes reviewing custom document classes, choice lists, event subscriptions, and Content Platform Engine configurations. 

Simulation and Validation

Our platform allows you to test the migration in a sandbox environment, validating that all object types, security models, and workflows operate correctly in FileNet Cloud before production cutover. 

Parallel System Operation

We support phased migrations where on-premises and cloud instances run simultaneously, allowing incremental user migration and reducing business disruption. 

Typical Challenges We Solve: 

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  • Reconfiguring integrations with downstream applications and business systems
  • Adapting authentication from on-premises Active Directory to cloud identity providers
  • Optimizing performance for cloud storage and API rate limits
  • Validating event actions and workflows in the cloud environment
  • Migrating large object stores without extended downtime
  • Updating hardcoded server references in custom applications and scripts
  • Link Redirector for managing links to archived content

 Why Choose Xillio for Your Migration?  

Simulation and Validation

Test your migration before execution. We ensure accuracy, minimize disruption, and validate all content, metadata, and permissions. You see exactly what will happen before it happens. No surprises.

Complete Audit Trail

Track every action with comprehensive logging and metadata retention. Full transparency. Full compliance. Full traceability. You know what moved, when it moved, and how it moved.

Mapping and Restructuring

Transform folder structures, metadata schemas, and security permissions to optimize your cloud environment during migration. This is your chance to clean up, reorganize, and improve how your content is structured.

Enterprise Scalability

Handle millions of documents with a platform built specifically for high-volume, complex enterprise-scale migrations. We've moved billions of files. Your project is in experienced hands. Need to move content across businesses often? Discover our Migration Factory approach.

Pre and Post Migration Tools

Analyze content with Xillio Insights before migration. Maintain link continuity with Link Redirector after migration. We support you before, during, and after the move.

Proven at Scale

Xillio has delivered hundreds of enterprise migrations across industries. Our FileNet migration framework is built on real-world experience, not theory.

Xillio is trusted by companies worldwide:

Ready to Embrace Cloud Innovation?

Let's discuss how we can elevate your FileNet infrastructure to the cloud with zero risk and maximum return on investment. 

Your content deserves better infrastructure. Your team deserves fewer headaches. Your organization deserves the flexibility and efficiency that cloud brings.  

We've done this before. We know the pitfalls. We know the shortcuts. We know how to make it work. 

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FAQ

What are the main benefits of migrating from IBM FileNet to FileNet Cloud? 
Migrating to FileNet Cloud eliminates infrastructure headaches while delivering the enterprise content management capabilities you rely on. Key benefits include automatic updates, elastic scalability, disaster recovery, and predictable costs, all while maintaining the familiar FileNet interface. You also free your team from server maintenance, hardware upgrades, and capacity planning. 
How does Xillio ensure a risk-free migration? 
Xillio uses a simulation and validation approach that allows you to test your migration before execution. This ensures accuracy, minimizes disruption, and validates all content, metadata, and permissions. You see exactly what will happen before it happens—no surprises. Additionally, Xillio maintains a complete audit trail that tracks every action with comprehensive logging for full transparency, compliance, and traceability. 
Will my team need to be retrained after the migration? 
No. One of the key advantages of moving to FileNet Cloud is that you maintain your existing workflows and the familiar FileNet interface. Your content stays accessible, your processes keep running, and there is no disruption to daily operations. Your team can continue working as usual without requiring retraining. 
Can Xillio handle large-scale enterprise migrations? 
Yes. Xillio's platform is built specifically for high-volume, complex enterprise-scale migrations and can handle millions of documents. With over 20 years of experience, 60+ platform connectors, and 250+ customers worldwide, Xillio has moved billions of files. Your project is in experienced hands. 
What tools does Xillio provide before and after the migration? 
Before migration, you can use Xillio Insights to analyze your content and understand exactly what's in your FileNet system. After migration, Xillio provides the Link Redirector tool to maintain link continuity, ensuring all references to your content continue to work seamlessly in the new cloud environment. 

Let's discuss your migration

and build a plan that fits your timeline and compliance needs. 

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