Hello
Has anyone had experience migrating from Oracle UCM to Laserfiche? We'd like to talk with customers or VARs who've had experience with this. This is for a one time migration, not integration. Thanks
- Philip
Hi Philip,
I've not had experience with UCM but in my experience, the process and techniques are universally applicable.
The main difficulty will be understanding how the documents are stored. For example, the Laserfiche entry ID along with a location table can be used to determine where the underlying files exist. In other systems, the modulus of the entry ID gives away the location. In some hideous systems, the documents are stored in database tables.
If you're unusually lucky, the source system has an API and you'll be able to extract all metadata, documents and structural information with ease. Generally speaking, APIs are not designed to obscure their use; not intentionally anyway.
Good luck with this and keep us posted :)
-Ben
I feel the challenge would be in migrating the security
Very true!
I've not tried migrating a security model before for the reason you mentioned. It's usually a good time to rationalise access and on the bright side, you get a chance to wax lyrical on the Laserfiche security model to the customer ;)
Good luck Philip.
Thanks for this Ben. From digging around, it looks like migrating the data over should be possible with the API. However, I feel the challenge would be in migrating the security if it is set to be very granular and if it cannot be directly translated to a Laserfiche Access right. The customer also asked if the workflow can be migrated. I think it might be far easier to create security and design the workflow from scratch in Laserfiche but I thought I'd post the question here in case anyone's had experience with it.
- Philip