Feeling Good About Your Migration: A Field-proven Framework For Performing Validated Documentum Migrations
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The document summarizes a framework for performing validated Documentum migrations that was used by Solvay Pharmaceuticals and Blue Fish Development Group. It describes challenges faced such as organizational issues, project management difficulties, technological hurdles, and quality assurance problems. These were addressed through solutions like forming a global migration team, precisely defining scope, using common tools for validation, and allowing business users to validate documents. The end result was a successful migration completed on time and within budget that satisfied users and found no issues during the transition to the new system.
Feeling Good About Your Migration: A Field-proven Framework For Performing Validated Documentum Migrations
- 1. A Field-proven Framework For Performing Validated Documentum Migrations Feeling Good About Your Migration: David Szweda , Sr. IT Analyst Solvay Pharmaceuticals Jes Wills, Software Architect Blue Fish Development Group Presented by:
- 2. Feeling good about your migration Agenda Introductions: Solvay and Blue Fish Things To Take Home With You The Mission: SOLID Phase 4 Executive Concerns Challenges and Solutions Results
- 3. Feeling good about your migration Introductions Solvay Pharmaceuticals International pharmaceutical group, part of Solvay S.A. Represented in 50 countries with almost 30,000 employees Blue Fish Development Group Exclusively focused on ECM since 1999. Content Migration, WCM and Custom ECM Practices. Recognized Documentum Expertise.
- 4. Feeling good about your migration Things to take home with you PM Organization QAV Technology It is a puzzle…
- 5. Feeling good about your migration Things to take home with you Organization 100% confidence level is key! Build a global team Project management Fixed budget and timelines are possible Clearly define the scope Technology Consider Enrichment/Inspection phase with common tools Estimate the scope of exported objects Quality Assurance Validation Understand 100% validation process PM Organization Technology QAV
- 6. Feeling good about your migration The Mission: SOLID - Phase 4 SOLID: Centralized EDM repository for Manufacturing and R&D Phase 4: Roll out and migration 11 Legacy Systems in 5 Countries 4 Languages - German, French, English and Spanish 3 Repository Platforms Documentum DCM Documentum EDMS98 File systems and Archives ~ 475,000 documents with ~55,000 relationships
- 7. Feeling good about your migration Executive Concerns Previous phases exceeded timelines and budgets Management of costs History of unsuccessful migrations Migration must be complete when the system goes live Negative general opinion around migration Tough, expensive, and not very sexy
- 8. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Organizational Challenges No migration experience Initial outsourcing quotes were unacceptable Dealing with multiple languages Data was coming from systems with inconsistent operating practices Organization
- 9. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Organization Challenges Addressed by: Performing trial migrations to choose partner Forming a global migration delivery center (MDC) Assigning team leads on local level Give each decision authority All team leads had a good command of English Executing each migration at least three times Business users auditing the results of each migration Adopting an approach based on the Blue Fish Migration Methodology and product suite Organization
- 10. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Project Management Challenges Scoping the project Prioritizing requirements Coordinating migration timelines with go-live planning PM
- 11. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Project Management Challenges Addressed by: Precisely defining the scope Creating a global roll-out plan Using disciplined behaviour throughout the project Combining fixed-price initial migration with subsequent T&M migrations Blue Fish to execute the first migration and assist on subsequent migrations A day-to-day, highly detailed plan describing all of the necessary activities and timelines PM
- 12. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Technology Challenges We didn’t want to “reinvent the wheel” Source repositories on different platforms, located at local sites Integration of non-technical Business User Knowledge Migration volumes resulted in some processes running for several days Mapping old object models to a new model Technology
- 13. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Technology Challenges Addressed by: Avoiding complex re-engineering by using the compliance layer of the target system Adopting a flexible process Detecting issues early, through inspection and validation Ensuring consistency by validating 100% of the migrated information against its specification Use common tools like MS Excel and MS Access Technology
- 14. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Quality Assurance Challenges Validating the overall process Validate 100% of the content and metadata migrated Validation of business users’ rules QAV
- 15. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions Quality Assurance Challenges Addressed by: Business users performing enrichment/inspection: Using Blue Fish tools as workhorses Using Mapping spreadsheets and Enrichment databases Recording audit trail for all data Ability to remove failed migrations Testing early, testing often, testing with the entire dataset Validating the entire toolset Using standardized import/export tools DIXI, spreadsheet-based specifications, common enrichment application QAV
- 16. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions The Blue Fish Framework Identify the data to be migrated Extract the data from its current repository/file store Transport the data from its current location to the new location Transform the data into the new structure Load the data into the new repository Validate that the data was transformed and loaded correctly Technology
- 17. Feeling good about your migration Challenges & Solutions The Blue Fish Approach Work with business users to define migration rules for each kind of document Automate the conversion of business rules into XML Leverage Blue Fish DIXI (Documentum Import/eXport Interface) Allow non-technical business users to validate documents at each step of migration Introduce an enrichment step to allow users and/or administrators to perform meta data enrichment Automate the process to allow repeatable test migrations Technology
- 18. Feeling good about your migration Business Users specify the rules Technology
- 19. Feeling good about your migration The Solution: Many Sources Converge … DIXI Export Transform attributes Transform attributes Save as .XML File System Export Transform attributes Transform attributes Export from Outlook and convert to .XML Technology .PST
- 20. Feeling good about your migration The Solution: Static Enrichment … Enrichment information can often be prepared in advance Technology
- 21. Feeling good about your migration The Solution: Enrichment and Inspection The Enrichment Application allows users to concentrate on their own areas of expertise and knowledge Technology Users select how to process the information
- 22. Feeling good about your migration The Solution: Enrichment Tool Form Interface The Forms-based interface allows Business Users to inspect and enrich documents on a case-by-case basis Technology Read-only fields prevent mis-keying
- 23. Feeling good about your migration The Solution: After further review … Users Refine Business Rules Pipeline Generated Automatically System uses Pipeline to generate Inspection Application Users Review … Content Migrated to SOLID Technology
- 24. Feeling good about your migration Results Success! All migrations executed on time Spent only a fraction of the initial quotes 100% end-user satisfaction and trust level in migrated content No issues or delays during the migration to production 100% automated check on quality of migrated data Manufacturing migrations, system-based, have been completed and were very successful. R&D currently running, based around individual products “ Migrations turned from a feared nightmare into a no-brainer” – Frans Pleij, Manager EDM Knowledge Center, Solvay Pharmaceuticals
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