MIGRATION MIGRAINES: SIMPLIFY ECM DATABASE MIGRATION WITH OFF-THE-SHELF TOOLS
This is an excerpt taken from Armedia.com
Even today, organizations still rely on the slow, painful, error-prone manual process of working with data. This can involve scanning various documents, OCR with the mandatory deciphering of bad handwriting, adding needed metadata, properly naming documents to fit the organization standards, saving digital files in the right format, moving documents to other physical and digital location, etc. Just reading the description of this process is enough to give you a headache.
IS THERE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE ECM MIGRATION TUNNEL?
Now think about the scary process of moving all that data into an ECM system. Enterprise Content Management systems are massive systems built to answer most of the modern company’s data needs. But, taking all those scanned files, all those disjointed excel spreadsheets, tons and tons of data stored in different databases is scary, to say the least.
Companies can spend thousands of work hours in processing all their data and still not be out of the woods when it comes to eliminating human error. There are far too many moving parts, far too many variables, and every step of the way is yet another chance of forgetting something, overlooking a small detail, and end up with a failed migration into an ECM.
The old saying goes applies. If I could get a Nickel any time the phone rang with a stuttered voice on the other end of the line saying “Um, guys, umm, we have a problem. The Payroll database, we kind of dropped the ball and, um, we can’t really make sense of what we have. It’s just a series of numbers, then a series of names, then a series of commas, colons, semicolons. Please help!”