Content Migration

When developing a new content management system, there is always the not so trivial matter of getting your old content into the new system. How is content cleansed, organized, and prepared for migration? What are the tools that can facilitate the process? Who should handle migration and what is the overall plan of attack? What are the costs (direct and indirect) of migration? We’ll address these issues through case studies in content migration for new CMS deployments.

Kyle Short will present "The Migration Challenge: Key Learnings from the Trenches"

You bought a CMS, not a Migration…so make sure the Migration is as efficient as possible. This means 1) leveraging a process that is informed by extensive content migration experience, and 2) leveraging migration tools where ever possible. Make no mistake….migrations are very challenging and they are incredibly taxing on your internal resources. You must get it right out the gate, from managing expectations to working with the automation process, because small mistakes in the beginning will compound over thousands of assets and can cause huge headaches further down the line.

Nic Archer will present "Exploding the Myths of Content Migration: The Case for Automated Migration"

Migrating content is not something that the average content professional will have to undertake frequently, and yet there is a significant reticence towards making the whole process a lot easier - to make the process quicker, cheaper and less painful through the use of automated tools and support methods. In this session, Vamosa will explore why this could be. We will look at  the real and imaginary potholes involved in the tricky exercise of migrating content into a new content management system. To many, the simple ability to access source or target systems may appear to be the biggest challenge, when the real challenges lie in actually choosing what content to move, what modifications need to be made to that content, and how these alterations can be made in a consistent and repeatable fashion. The options for measuring success will also be explored. 

Looking at multiple use cases such as AstraZeneca, IBM, and the European Commission (one of the largest SharePoint 2007 migrations), various scenarios will be explored to try and distill the key success factors including method, choice of tools, and management buy-in. This thought provoking session will aim to explode the perceptions that your problem is unique, and show that regardless of the size of the problem, or the complexity of the requirement, an automated solution can be crafted to shrink timescales, maximize deliverables, and increase the quality of the content deployed.