Alfresco Software,
a commercial, open source software company, today launched the Alfresco
Migration Service to help enterprises move off outdated, legacy
platforms, while mitigating the risk of migrating content to the cloud.
Alfresco has completed many migrations and, based on this experience,
created the Migration Service with a migration toolkit, skilled
consultancy, and a robust 5-week process.
Today's
enterprises need the modern deployment capabilities, hyper-scale and
agility of the cloud and yet remain concerned about the complexity,
effort and cost of migration. According to Gartner, "by 2022, cloud
shift across key enterprise IT markets will increase to 28% (up from 19%
in 2018)."
Alfresco CEO Bernadette Nixon noted:
"We are already seeing increased demand today from enterprises and
government agencies, who want to move off legacy systems and migrate to
the Cloud. However, they find a basic ‘lift and shift' strategy moving
their ECM platform to the cloud can be ineffective and risky. In fact,
they seek an approach that provides both an uninterrupted service and
de-risks the overall migration. Although there is no such thing as ‘a
push button migration', they do want a programmed approach that
kick-starts their migration and enables them to continue the migration
at their own pace - while enjoying the benefits of a modern,
cloud-native platform."
The new Alfresco Migration Service provides a step-by-step approach over a 5-week period comprising three key components:
- Migration
Toolkit - A broad set of user tools, dashboards, analytics, content
services connectors and migration servers from Alfresco that provide a
comprehensive migration solution. The toolkit is scalable with automated
capabilities to enable discovery, migration, auditing, and validation
of data from multiple repositories, as well as easy integration with
third-party tools to provide additional categorization, classification
or analytics.
- Skilled People -
Experienced consultants, who have planned and delivered many
large-scale, legacy system migrations, integrate best practices and
transformation initiatives during the migration journey.
- A
Robust Process - A 5-week, field-proven process focused on efficiency
and risk-mitigation. Alfresco professionals will audit the existing
system, set up the migration tools and process, and educate all users on
how to manage the migration. This ensures enterprises get the skills
and knowledge they need in a clearly-defined process, at the end of
which Alfresco professionals can execute the migration. Alternatively,
the enterprise can opt to manage the execution of the migration
themselves - allowing them to run their migration continuously over time
using their own resources, and at their own pace.
Nixon
continued: "Typical migrations can incorporate billions of documents
that are stored across a multitude of repositories, databases and file
stores. However, migration projects do not have to be ‘big bang'
endeavors, we believe a well-managed process based on best practices and
industry experience over a clearly-defined period of time and at a
fixed price is simply a better way. This approach ensures our customers
have the necessary tools, skills and support to achieve a successful
migration to the cloud."
The
Alfresco Migration Service enables enterprises to migrate billions of
documents from legacy storage repositories (e.g., Documentum, DocuWare,
Google Drive, Hadoop, IBM Content Manager, IBM FileNet, OpenText,
Microsoft SharePoint and others) to Alfresco's cloud-native Digital
Business Platform, where it can be made more visible, actionable and
valuable.
Nixon
added: "Once they move to a modern content platform, enterprises and
government agencies will gain the agility and innovation of cloud-native
capabilities like containerization, microservices, artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) that will enable them to
ramp up their digital operations and gain a competitive advantage."