The first installment in our three-part webinar series “Modernizing Document Processing,” discussed how you can transform your business by moving from legacy systems like Documentum to Alfresco. Through our ActiveMigrate methodology, your ECM repository can transform to a modern, open platform your users will feel comfortable working with. As a former Documentum business partner, we understand the ins and outs of the platform as well as how Alfresco can help improve your business processes.
According to our presenter Phil Robinson, SVP at Zia Consulting, a lot of the companies we talk to are looking to move to Alfresco for many reasons, but generally falling into one of two categories:
- For the Technology Side: Ongoing maintenance costs, upgrade costs and complexity, moving to the cloud.
- For the Business Side: Legacy system is limiting growth and profitability.
Many enterprises simply can’t wait the 12–18 months it takes to upgrade with Documentum or find that their profitability or growth is limited because of complex and manual processes associated with it.
One use case discussed an AP system who invested a large amount in Documentum and then found themselves facing yet another upgrade. They are working with us to replace their current system with Alfresco and include automated integration. We also discussed a large bank whose mortgage department had to actually print and rescan documents in order to move them from Documentum to their LOS.
Companies have invested a lot in Documentum installation, customizations, and upgrades yet still have feel the platform is a costly, complex, slow, and error-prone process. Because it is not user-friendly, employees often avoid the system and continue working in the tools they’re comfortable with.
Many companies have hesitations about making the transition including the costs and risks of migration as well as potential disruption to daily business. Our customer, Synopsis, was ready to move to Alfresco but were concerned about the effect it would have on their in-process work. We were able to migrate their system without disrupting their business using ActiveMigrate. This keeps your business working while we migrate content to the new system. We leverage best-in-class migration tools, and offer “lazy” migrations to allow companies to migrate just what is needed and what is used.
To learn more, and see our Seven-Step Process for migrating to a new ECM, view the full webinar here. You may also find our white paper, ECM Migration Without Disrupting Your Business, to be informative.
If you haven’t already, don’t forget to register for the remaining two webinars in this insightful series.
Modernizing Document Processing with Activiti BPM – March 31, 11am MT
Simplify and enhance workflow processes by moving to Activiti BPM which replaces outdated technologies with inflexible rules.
Automated Archiving with Easy RM – April 7, 11am MT
Our records management solution is built with Alfresco and automates the archiving process directly from systems like SAP, Salesforce, and more.