Legacy ECM migrations

Get rid of your legacy ECM system

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What is legacy ECM?

Your ECM can be described as ‘legacy’ if it interferes with your business objectives, and stands in the way of that clean and agile content environment you need.

There are many situations where this is the case: the ECM might be out of support, be built around outdated technology, or no longer fit in your content architecture. This does not always mean your ECM is old. Content specialists migrate data both from and to ECM platforms such as Documentum; in one scenario the ECM is legacy, in another it is the new system that frees up content to support a lean and agile business strategy. Every organization is different. We do see that Digital Transformation is speeding up legacy ECM migrations

Why do a legacy ECM migration?

In the era of Big Data, content is a resource almost as invaluable to an organization as its human capital. For this reason alone, leaving content in an outdated and inefficient ECM is no longer an option. 

Although ‘legacy’ does not necessarily mean old, in most migration projects you will be dealing with legacy technology, legacy databases and legacy support (that is to say, all the support you have is in document form, if you can find the documents). This is one of the challenges you face, when doing a legacy migration

Challenges of a legacy migration 

No API

Without an API, how do you connect to the source system to retrieve documents and metadata in the right way?

Old databases

Old or unknown databases can have challenging relational structures.

No support

The vendor might have gone out of business, and if the legacy system is very old, the documentation may no longer be available.

Performance

The performance of your old system could be a concern, because it runs a large amount of content on an old environment.

Restructuring old structure

Restructuring your legacy system (which might be based on folder thinking)  to map the new environment requires building complex mappings.

Limited support from vendor 

The provider of your old system could be unwilling (or unable) to shed light on how your legacy system has been set up

Knowledge of configuration

Often times, systems are managed by people who have left the company. When nobody knows how the old system is configured, you could be fighting a losing battle.

Retention Policies

These old implementations tend to be very well thought through and mapping this to new systems can be tricky.

8 Challenges of Legacy Content Migrations and how to overcome them! 

Tips to learn how to perform a legacy content migration, which challenges you might face and how to overcome them.

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Top 6 legacy migrations

The most legacy content migrations Xillio has performed are to Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365), which could be due to the improved record management functionalities of SharePoint Online. Recently, we have started to see more and more legacy migrations from systems, such as LiveLink, Documentum, OpenText, Alfresco, HP TRIM, and FileNet. 

The top 6 requested legacy content migrations are as follows:

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