Data Migration: A Complex Challenge!
When an enterprise decides to migrate from a Lotus Notes/Domino application environment to a new platform (Microsoft Share Point, Open Source, etc...), the migration of unstructured data (documents, rich text fields, etc...) often presents a complex challenge.
During such a project, businesses can find themselves facing the following problem: how to export this data, which is in the proprietary Lotus Notes format, to the new platform while still conserving the content, rich text field objects, doc-links and hierarchies of response documents.
The solution is obtained by exporting the data into an open format such as HTML or XML, then importing the documents into the new application.
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When projects for the migration of unstructured Lotus Notes data are undertaken, several problems present themselves:
1 - How to export the large volume of data in a short period of time?
2 - How to ensure the integrity of the data?
3 - How to handle problems such as:
Rich-text field contents (tables, images, URLs, etc.)
The management of doc-links
The management of response documents
The Solution: Automate the data transfer with software solutions for the export and import from Cooperteam.
Solutions for data migration from Cooperteam:
Export unstructured Notes data to HTML format with Cooperteam's Notes to HTML
Notes to HTML will generate on a disk structure, a collection of files corresponding to each Notes document (html pages, resource file, XML definition files).
This solution allows considerable reduction in time used compared to manual approach: 400 on average per hour (html export and import into the new application), between 50 and 100 times more efficient than manual handling. Up to more than 3000 documents can be handled for the HTML/XML export alone.
Because the speed of the migration process is so rapid, it is possible to perform rendering tests, and if necessary repeat the operation after making changes to the documents within Notes.
Client: Groupe Védior France
The Client Requirement:
Groupe Vedior took the decision to migrate its Lotus Notes applications to a new infrastructure based on Microsoft Share Point Portal (MOSS 2007). For this reason, they needed to find a software solution allowing them to automate the transfer of the document contained in the Lotus Notes applications into MOSS 2007, while still guaranteeing the integrity of the data.
Cooperteam’s Solution:
Cooperteam proposed a software solution to Groupe Vedior France allowing them, on one side to export the documents from a Lotus Notes database in HTML form (including a certain number of related content files), and on the other side to import the HTML and related files into Groupe Vedior’s MOSS 2007 tool. Loss of visual rendering was minimal, and without functional impact.
Client: Atlantica
The Client Requirement:
Atlantica needed to export content from Lotus Notes documents into Microsoft Word documents, prior to importing them into a Microsoft Share Point server.
Cooperteam’s Solution:
To respond to Atlantica’s requirements, Cooperteam developed an executable allowing them to export each Notes document into a collection of Word documents (for visual rendering – a group of word documents bound together with an XML definition file). Following this all the data was then imported into Share Point by Atlantica, while being populated with the meta-data required.
