MigrationXpress

Legacy CCM Migrations Are Hard

There are many organizations that have made significant investments into modernizing their communications infrastructure to engage customers in unique and important ways, yet continue to be burdened by having to maintain old legacy CCM applications for one simple reason – they can be prohibitively expensive to migrate. The prospect of moving a legacy CCM system running on Documaker, Documerge or Crystal Reports to a newer platform like Quadient Inspire or OpenText Exstream can be overwhelming. Migrating old systems comprised of thousands of complex policy forms that are bound to demanding output and batching requirements is a daunting task without the right tools & methodologies, and most companies continue to kick the can down the road as a result. We’ve spent decades working with customers on these very sort of problems and have evolved a methodology involving a blend of automation and expertise aimed at eliminating the barriers to migration of these complicated legacy CCM applications.

A better way

Introducing MigrationXpress

Recognizing that most legacy CCM migrations are arduous and expensive tasks, we’ve leveraged our years of CCM product development and consulting experience to craft MigrationXpress with the sole objective of reducing costs and improving accuracy & deployment timelines of legacy CCM migrations. Our technology and implementation methodology can reduce migration costs upwards of 50% or more and reduce unwanted risk.

Following are three key pillars of MigrationXPress capabilities:

Ability to “deep-dive” on an entire library to produce specific metrics pertaining to organization of forms by line-of-business, number of forms grouped by complexity, number and nature of variable fields and where they are used, detailed assembly-logic rules for each form and internal section(s) and comprehensive breakdown of font and logo usage throughout.
MigrationXpress Rationalizer to rationalize content directly from the SOURCE system (instead of output) across multiple dimensions with the objective of identifying similarity groups and positioning the library for intelligent consolidation during the migration process.
Capacity to rationalize & convert forms to a target environment from their original source for certain legacy platforms. Most other migration methodologies are based upon working with PDF or print-based output as a source format – working with the original source documents ensures that ALL content, variable fields and assembly-logic are accounted for resulting in a highly-accurate migration absent of errors often associated with typical conversions.

Why MigrationXpress

Migration Accuracy

Using technology to analyze a legacy CCM application and convert content from the source documents (rather than PDF) significantly improves the accuracy and speed of the migration. This reduces the amount of re-work required typically due to errors or omissions.

Predictable Roadmap

Detailed analysis of the legacy CCM application tells us everything that we need to know about how it works and provides a roadmap for re-assembly in the target CCM platform. This removes guesswork normally associated with understanding legacy CCM forms-assembly rules.

Content Rationalization

Intelligent and adjustable consolidation of SOURCE content across four different dimensions prior to migration. MX Rationalizer organizes similar content into groups with detailed content scoring with the objective of empowering migration teams to normalize converted resources.

Cost Savings

Automating mundane and expensive tasks such as template conversion, style re-creation and variable data mapping can dramatically reduce implementation timelines and costs that are often associated with complex CCM migration projects.

MX Executive Dashboard

The MigrationXpress Executive Dashboard is a critical tool for legacy CCM analysis and decision-making. This FREE report distills all key analytics and information into an easy-to-digest dashboard canvassing important top-level metrics that drive migration complexity and areas of potential cost-savings.

Key features include:

Complexity Score – overall complexity score of the Documaker library as calculated by MX.
MigrationXpress Savings – estimated migration savings possible by leveraging MX for conversion.
Key Observations – primary factors that drive complexity scoring and estimated savings.
Savings Breakdown – breakdown of estimated savings by key areas of functionality.
Library Breakdown – top-level analytics and statistics of the Documaker library as discovered by MX.
Additional Insights – supporting statistics and findings from MX.

MX Rationalizer

The MigrationXpress Rationalizer ensures that any migration of resources from a legacy CCM system can intelligently consolidate content and shed any and all legacy baggage in the process. Rationalizer plugs-in once all legacy content has been read by MigrationXpress, providing unique opportunities to consolidate directly from source prior to migration.

Key capabilities include:

Source Oriented: works directly with source content supported by MigrationXpress across multiple dimensions including content, style, layout, and data.
Tuned Analysis: able to flex similarity weightings across multiple dimensions with threshold-matching to determine acceptable matching criteria and how similar files are grouped and consolidated together.
Summary & Detailed Reporting: summary and detailed reporting capabilities, including difference viewer to compare various files and color-coded confidence scoring of each group file relative to a “keeper” file, and CSV export of similarity, consolidation and duplication scoring data.