Integration and migration are often the biggest challenges in implementing an ECM/RM solution. These require an advanced understanding of ECM/RM and legacy systems and integration and interface points. Gimmal’s specialists have a proven track record in the integration of ECM/RM tools with other enterprise technologies, such as ERP systems, imaging technologies, A/P and A/R applications, LDAP, Web publishing engines and collaboration tools.
Key Areas of Focus
- IT architecture, including performance and capacity planning
- Systems design
- Systems development, including application configuration and component integration
Content migration can be complicated, time-consuming and fraught with pitfalls, ranging from minor application security problems to complete business disruption. This is particularly true in organizations subject to intense industry and/or government regulatory scrutiny. The migration of content can cause many sleepless nights for managers responsible for such projects.
Gimmal brings a comprehensive approach and migration tools to address this challenge. Our years of experience, field-proven proprietary technologies, and absolute attention to detail have benefited our clients greatly in this regard. Whether it is a system upgrade or complete platform migration, many of the world’s largest companies have entrusted our experts with the safe and accurate migration of their content.
Key Objectives
Gimmal’s overarching objective in system integration is to keep user interface consistent and reduce any overhead associated with the integration.
With any content migration project, we will bring our considerable expertise to bear on a few key objectives:
- Accurately identifying the information that needs to be moved, along with any information that will not be part of the migration
- Identifying and/or developing the most cost-effective technical means of moving the information, leveraging our own migration technology framework wherever possible
- Working with your Quality Assurance team to ensure that success criteria for the migration are identified and well-documented
- Moving your content, in phases if necessary, to ensure a completely successful migration
How You Can Benefit
Gimmal’s system integration expertise provides the shortest path possible for content-enabled integration with legacy applications.
Whether it is a straight-forward departmental CMS upgrade, or a global, multi-lingual platform transition, Gimmal has the experience and ingenuity required to handle even the most daunting of migration projects. Retaining our team of professionals will ensure several important benefits:
- Your IT team will benefit from working with a collection of experts that have encountered the myriad technical challenges that can accompany an integration or migration effort
- Our migration technology framework can save hundreds of hours of your IT staff's development time
- Our experience helps to significantly mitigate your corporate risk of business interruption and/or non-compliance
- We are integration experts for ECM and will bridge the gap of understanding related to providing a total solution
For more information regarding our services, please e-mail us at sales@gimmal.com or call (713) 586-6500.
