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Migrating sensitive content securely: A guide for businesses | 3) Data migration strategies

Businesses rely on ECM systems to store customer data. In this third part, we discuss tips you can apply to your data migration strategy.

Welcome to the third part in our series of articles on the topic of data migration. In case you missed part 1, you can find it here and part 2 can be found here!

In this part, we’ll show you some tips you can apply to your data migration strategy.

How to choose the right data migration strategy?

There are various data migration strategies to choose from. Each approach offers unique advantages and considerations, depending on the project’s scale and complexity. It is essential to select a strategy that aligns with your specific needs and capabilities.

Challenges in data migration

While data migration offers many benefits, it also presents several challenges. Common challenges include data loss, incomplete or inaccurate transfers, system downtime, and failure to meet migration objectives. By identifying these challenges and planning effectively, organizations can mitigate risks and ensure a smooth, secure migration process.

Safeguarding data during migration

Protective measures for data

Ensuring data security is paramount during migration. Employ strong measures like access controls, encryption, and user authentication to protect sensitive information. Continuously monitor and audit the migration process to identify and resolve any security issues.

The importance of encryption in data transfer

Encryption plays a crucial role in securing data during migration. By encrypting data both in transit and at rest, you can ensure that intercepted data remains inaccessible to unauthorized users. Apply strong encryption algorithms and protocols to safeguard sensitive information, such as customer records, intellectual property, and financial data.

Texport: Alfresco Exports & Imports by Texter Blue

Introducing a new mindset for upgrades and content transfer, we’ve developed a solution that exports and imports at object level supporting all Alfresco object types and it carries the symbology of true export.

Full Support – Supports content, metadata, relationships, permissions, versions, tags, categories, sites-memberships, and all other repository node relations from a source Alfresco repository to any target Alfresco instance.

Optimized – Multi-threaded tool that leverages low level OS and cloud resources via its close relation with Python, as such it’s fully optimized for export/import throughput, ingestion rates of up to 2800 nodes/sec.

Native S3 – Native S3 support allowing full repository bidirectional transfer from a normal fileContentStore into an S3ContentStore

Clean Data – Move all content or choose to archive or dispose certain areas of the repository – for example the archiving part of the audit-trail to increase database performance.

Record – Keep a record of all exports and imports executed for validation and data quality purposes. It ships with an ElasticShearch integration, providing robust dashboards in Kibana for content transfer executions overview.

Cloud Ready – Container friendly and Cloud ready, adding security and backup options in future relations.

A clever digital transformation…

Texport provides the opportunity to implement a clever digital transformation to the way the organisation interacts with their digital content, consolidating and enriching data – tagging, categorising, auto-classification, applying AI – thus increasing efficiency and optimising the investment.

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TML: Texter Machine Learning by Texter Blue

Your content and data are the foundation upon which your business operates, and critical decisions are made. Recent advancements in AI in areas such as image and natural language processing have enabled a whole new level of automatic extraction of information and data analysis that power the automation of key business processes not possible until now.

  • Process your data with different AI engines, integrating the results.
  • Supports several data formats: images, video, text, etc.​
  • Generate new content and document versions based on AI results​.
  • Store extracted information in metadata, enabling further processing and process automation.
  • On cloud or on-premises – in case you don’t want data to leave your private infrastructure.
  • Compatible with several different ECM providers
  • Ability to develop custom AI models to target your specific needs and data.

AI is essential to remain relevant!

The adoption of AI in modern organisations is essential to remain relevant and competitive, optimising efficiency, empowering new business opportunities and freeing critical human resources to specific value-added tasks.

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If you’re struggling with your digital transformation, remember… you are not alone in this… Texter Blue is here to help you providing the best results! Make sure you read our news and articles and contact us.