Migration of Archiving Systems

Constant change in IT technologies often leads to rethinking decision drawn in the past. With relation to archiving systems this often concerned storage systems because they turned out to be not manageable anymore: while revision-save storage of data and documents was done on WORM media (Write Once, Read Many) in the past, nowadays they are stored on hard disk-based storage systems. Reasons for a migration of an archiving system can be manifold in general:

• Change in storage technology
• Savings of licensing costs
• Increase of performance and availability
• Improvement of administration and maintenance

We support you in archive system migration projects with our long-lasting experience, processes and tools that proved well in many projects. In particular we offer:

• Safe and transparent migration strategy
  • Prove of correct migration based on hash values of migrated files
  • Documentation of migration steps for audit purposes
• Easy execution due to a transparent process being able to consider maintenance windows
• Migration parallel to production with fallback options always being available
• Integration with SAP™ standard
• Support of ArchiveLink™-based storage, print lists, ADK™ files, KPro™-based storage
• Migration of SAP™- as well as Non-SAP™-documents
• High performance by parallelizing the process
• Format conversion (especially TIFF to PDF/A)
• Competent support in case of problems
• Analysis beforehand in order to estimate project duration
• Experience with many different archiving systems (bitfarm, Documentum, Easy, FileNet, IBM Content Manager/Common Store, Image Master, Open Text, PBS ContentLink, SAP™ ContentServer™, Saperion, SER, Windream)