The Need to Migrate Large Document Volumes
RWE Dea AG was looking for a software solution to transfer 165,000 documents from a local system into an EMC Documentum repository. Moreover, there was a continuous need for scanning paper documents and making them available within Documentum in the form of PDF files.
Requirements for the Mass Import of Documents
Regarding the selection of a software tool for document migration,three criteria needed to be satisfied: file attributes for import had to be accurately defined; the document migration had to be run largely automatically; a secure verification was needed to prove that indeed all documents were being transferred free of error.
Functional Richness and Reliability Speak for Migration-Center
- During a first pilot project 8,500 PDF files were successfully transferred using migration-center.
- In a test run, all errors, such as incorrectly assigned attributes, could be eliminated prior to import.
- In comparison with another software tool which had been used till then, migration-center proved to be more reliable.
Meanwhile, RWE Dea AG is well satisfied with migration-center and happy to recommend this out-of-the-box software tool for the migration of large document volumes.
Bert Köhler, project leader at RWE Dea AG, says: »After comparing
a range of products, we were impressed by the functional
richness of migration-center. The product has proven to be
very flexible and we shall therefore use it on a permanent
basis for the consolidation of large document pools.«
