The Challenges of Migrating from KCenter to Oracle WebCenter
- Content created over many years had redundant and unused metadata.
- Large volume of content. Over 28 million documents to be migrated with their revisions and retained in its original form.
- Document stored in a hierarchy of 8 million folders had to be flattened with the correct metadata tags in Oracle WebCenter
- The need to reclassify documents with a different set of metadata, all of which had to be handled during migration.
- Security inheritance using user and group permissions had to be analysed and consolidated into an easy security model
Solving QBE’s Unique Challenges
Content restructuring
Reusable rules and mappings were configured to enable content restructuring, content cleansing, as well as multiple reprocessing. Item level audit during migration ensured completeness of migration and ensured data integrity. Legacy users were mapped to the new entities in Active Directory.
Discovery & analysis
Proventeq Discovery and Content Analytics technology helped QBE identify any inconsistencies in their content and security and empowered their team to create rules to ensure their data is compatible with the new design in WebCenter - enabling migration of all relevant metadata for over 28 million files.
Migration automation
The unique versatility of our Proventeq Migration Accelerator was the key technology driving QBE’s content migration to Oracle WebCenter; providing the power of an automated solution while reducing the overall cost of migration.
Exception plan
The phased and managed migration processes available in the migration engine allowed migration to different environments using the same configuration. An ‘exception plan’ was devised to resolve any inconsistent source files.
