A practical guide to planning an auditable content migration.
A sound ECM migration plan connects the business reason for change with an inventory, target design, pilot, controlled migration waves and final reconciliation.
Record every repository in scope, document volumes, formats, versions, metadata, access rules and retention dependencies. Identify the business owner who can approve exceptions and final reconciliation. Include integrations and scheduled processes that depend on repository identifiers.
Map content types and metadata to the target model. Decide how permissions, renditions, versions and links should behave. Where the target cannot represent a source feature, agree a treatment and record it as a design decision.
Use difficult documents as well as typical samples. Test extraction, transformation, loading, search, permissions and user workflows. Measure throughput under realistic conditions and use the findings to revise wave sizes and cutover assumptions.
Freeze or synchronize content according to the cutover plan. Capture exceptions with a named owner, retry strategy and acceptance rule. Coordinate communication and operational support around each wave.
Compare source and target counts, metadata, version coverage and content integrity. Use sampling and automated checks appropriate to risk. Retire the source only after business sign-off and the required preservation obligations are addressed.
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