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Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

alex_07 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:29 GMT

Hello everyone,Is it possible to migrate data and content from Documentum to Alfresco? If so, how?

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

jbarmash — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:21:01 GMT

I believe one of our partners, TSG, created an OpenMigrate toolkit that supports both Documentum and Alfresco, though I haven't actually used it, so i am not sure how well this works.

Check out is this is useful:
http://www.tsgrp.com/Open_Source/OpenMigrate/open-migrate.jsp

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

jpfi — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:37:13 GMT

Hi,
we have a formerly Documentum centric product called migration-center (http://www.migration-center.de/Product.178.0.html?&L=1) of the leading ecm migration tools. Formerly only FileSystem -> DCTM, now more from any source (extensible file scanner interface) to any target (extensible importer interface). Our migration-center is worldwide used by united nations, volkswagen, BMW and some more.
We havn't a Alfresco Importer yet, but this is only a question of the business case.
Cheers,
Jan

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

bhunton — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:42:09 GMT

Data and content extractions from Documentum are not trivial, but they are not that difficult either. For one Armedia customer we used a Documentum Docbasic (.ebs) script to extract content and write it to a directory and to extract data to XML.

Our customer wanted a very flexible solution. We chose Docbasic because it is obviously simple to use in a Documentum environment. In this case, we identified the content file by the r_object_id and by other key data, with the file extension coming from the original file in the repository. You can organize your target file system where the content goes as you see fit. The EBS script also extracted the metadata and created a XML file with the data attributes and values, as well as the file system path of the content on the target location. The script was capable of creating a CSV as well as XML file for the data extraction. The script also creates a manifest of the content extracted.

This then describes a very flexible solution from a general point of view. Once you have the content on a file system and the data in such a form, then you can import it anywhere. The business application would guide you to what data you need to extract, and how to map it to Alfresco.

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

alex_07 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:12:27 GMT

Thank you so much for your posts.

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

jab121 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:13:58 GMT

Armedia Content I/O Suite, http://armedia.com/products/suite, is designed to help organizations move from one ECM platform to another. It does not handle workflows and security policies; however this can be handle with consulting services.

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

mikegration — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:43:22 GMT

Hi,
we have a formerly Documentum centric product called migration-center (http://www.migration-center.de/Product.178.0.html?&L=1) of the leading ecm migration tools. Formerly only FileSystem -> DCTM, now more from any source (extensible file scanner interface) to any target (extensible importer interface). Our migration-center is worldwide used by united nations, volkswagen, BMW and some more.
We havn't a Alfresco Importer yet, but this is only a question of the business case.
Cheers,
Jan

[size=150]migration-center is ready for alfresco now![/size]

Get more information on the new website: http://www.migration-center.de

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

mikegration — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:05:24 GMT

migration-center released a couple of new migration paths:
- DCTM to Alfresco
- File Share to Alfresco
- FileNet IS to Alfresco
- XML to Alfresco

Read more: http://www.migration-center.de/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/PDF_en/datasheets/Matrix_Adapter_migration-center.pdf&t=1282737769&hash=919f1c3e1bae68b074ede7ca52ec65d8

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

sibe — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:29:44 GMT

Hello, Have you succeeded to migrate to or from Alfresco with openmigrate ?

Thank

Re: Migrate data from Documentum to Alfresco

mikegration — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:09:22 GMT

fme announced today the release of their updated three free versions for migration-center. The new software is immediately available for download now!

:arrow: Checkout the new free version on http://freeversion.migration-center.com

migration-center's free version supports migrations from file shares to Alfresco only but can be used for production. Users can migrate up to 5.000 documents per batch from their file share to the live repository of their choice and experience the power of automation. The functional capabilities of the free product are limited for file share migrations.