How-tos, migration war stories, and what we've learned running platforms at scale.
The Maretha Methodology: Moving content by ignoring the API and going straight to the source. Most enterprise migrations follow the same depressing script: An 18-month roadmap, a high-priced vendor tool, and a smooth start. Then-somewhere around the 30-millionth document-the wheels fall off. You hit silent failures, metadata corruption, and “ghost” records. Suddenly, that 18-month project […]
Read articleAs I have mentioned before, I have been in the ECM/DAM space for decades, and I have been directly and indirectly involved in many migrations for and at many organizations. I do not think I would ever say something like “That migration was fun.” or “That migration was so smooth and uneventful.” because no migration is fun or uneventful. But migrations are necessary to leverage advancements in technology and reduce costs. Whether your organization has acquired another organization, or your organization allowed various internal entities to select their own technology, or a new IT initiative is mandating consolidation or embracing advanced systems, at some point in time you will be faced with a migration. You can cringe and moan and perhaps even twitch at the thought of performing one or more migrations to the new system and then either choose to face the challenge or go do something else.
Read articleI have been in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business for over two decades. I have talked to customers small and large (and I mean very large) and in many different industries over the years. I have competed against many ECM vendors while at IBM and then Nuxeo. So yes, I have heard a lot and seen a lot. And I plan to offer my views on a lot of topics, like this one, but also about the apparent demise of ECM, the fallacies of sales methodologies, and what really makes a good leader. But today I want to focus on customers considering moving away from Alfresco.
Read article“How do we migrate Nuxeo from a SQL database to MongoDB?” This question comes up a lot and while it’s a complex topic that depends very much on the project, I think it’s very useful to lay out a few things to consider and steps on how to approach this migration.
Read articleFor the past 3 years, I’ve been working on migrating several billion documents from IBM FileNet P8 systems into Nuxeo. My efforts have gotten a lot more interesting since both customers I have been working with decided to add Nuxeo’s DAM capabilities shortly after the migration processes were underway.
Read articleAt Maretha Solutions, our team has the most real world experience with the largest, longest running, and most complex implementations of the Nuxeo Platform. We sometimes get called the “migration experts”. We sometimes get called the “DAM experts”. The truth is we all love helping clients achieve their goals with Nuxeo. This blog post will […]
Read articleRemember the old days when upgrading your code to the latest Nuxeo release used to take days, if not weeks :D? If you have done one of these upgrades before, you know the work: You bump versions. You chase the javax to jakarta rename across the codebase. You figure out which APIs were removed, moved, […]
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