Published: February 2009 Type: Business guidance Area: Document management Summary This paper forms part of a series of white papers issued by the Intellect Document Management Group, following on from its introductory guide to implementing document management ‘Document management concerns the whole board – a guide for all directors’.
If you are a Director or CxO-level officer responsible for, or interested in, a document management project, then you need to understand the importance of migration in the project – and you need to know how to handle it. This paper provides an introduction to the topic, with concrete suggestions on ways of dealing with migration. Migration is the single most-often-underestimated aspect of document management projects. However, consideration of migration is an almost-inevitable part of most such projects. If poorly planned, it can cause problems so severe that they cause the entire project to fail. This paper is too short to describe everything you need to do to ensure a successful migration; it cannot tell what information to migrate, or even whether to migrate it. What it does do is to point out the main issues you, and your project team, need to address to reach the most appropriate compromises.
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