"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves." 
– Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.

We live in an era of rapid technological advances. With a host of new and upcoming technology companies and products, businesses may change their technology stacks for various reasons.

Legacy systems may house enterprise data for years before the organization migrates to a new system. And even if technology systems change, an organization's legacy data is valuable and must be retained.

Large enterprises collect vast amounts of business data over years of operations. These may include documents, engineering drawings, medical scans, or even images and audiovisual content. Usually, this data is managed by a content management system.

Companies may need to change their enterprise content management (ECM) for many reasons. One common scenario is if your firm is acquired by a larger organization that uses a different technology stack. 

Another scenario that requires data migration is if the ECM you currently use is being desupported and therefore needs to be decommissioned.

Whatever the reason, migrating data from your current ECM into a new one is almost always a complex data migration project, and it is a mission-critical one. During migration, any loss of documents and data can prove costly and even affect business continuity.

But how do you get all your critical information from legacy systems into your new ECM? Let's take a look.

Ensure the safe migration of data into your new ECM 

ApplicationXtender (rebranded as AppEnhancer in 2021) is a powerful content management system used by thousands of organizations. Revolution Data Systems helps users across the globe with their ApplicationXtender support and maintenance contracts as well as data migration services if they need to move data into or out of their system.

We have successfully converted many ApplicationXtender systems to various ECM platforms across a broad spectrum of industries like healthcare, banking & finance and government. We offer data migration services across a broad spectrum of industries like healthcare, banking & finance, and government.

Migrating data out of ApplicationXtender 

If you're moving data out from OpenText ApplicationXtender, RDS is your ideal data migration partner. You may have years of valuable business data stored in ApplicationXtender (AX), and understanding its complex architecture and metadata and moving it into another ECM is no small task. It is not as simple as moving files from one location to another, not by a long shot! Non-compatibility between the two ECMs can result in the loss of valuable business data.

ApplicationXtender stores hundreds of different types of records with features like annotations and linked metadata, making a migration out of ApplicationXtender complicated. 

Moving large amounts of images and data is a complex task—especially when the system has existed for years and records are stored in a wide range of formats. Data criteria pertaining to file sizes, full-text library, and other information in the current ApplicationXtender instance are also critical. Sometimes, your new ECM may not support certain file types that exist in ApplicationXtender. In other cases, you may have to upgrade to an entirely new version of the documents.

Migrating data into ApplicationXtender

We have seen a growing number of clients sunsetting OnBase, Laserfiche, DocuWare, Sharepoint, and other tools in favor of ApplicationXtender. IT managers love the small footprint, ease of use, and robust security features, while CFOs love the price tag and annual maintenance costs compared to its peers. 

Our professional services team has proven success in migrating data out of the systems listed above and many others. We can rebuild the existing applications and workflows you had in your other system while providing guidance for improving your business processes. 

RDS: The experts at ApplicationXtender data migration

At RDS, we have years of experience handling complex data and document structures in ApplicationXtender. Our specialist data migration teams work on data normalization, file type conversions, data file structures, and auditing extracted data and images.

Our migration teams have the requisite experience and know-how to maintain searchability of records after migrating the documents, safeguard audit trails even when documents move to the new ECM, and retain indexing and annotations linked to each document. Our data migration team follows time-tested processes to ensure your data moves safely to your new ECM.

We start with a requirements sign-off to understand the record types, solution architecture, timelines, and extraction plan. We create a detailed project timeline of the planned data extraction, import, and testing.

RDS helps you solve your records management challenges and executes your data migration with world-class support services.

Talk to RDS to transform your organization's content management system and migrate data from ApplicationXtender. Chat with our expert consultants today to understand how to migrate successfully and get the most out of our customized data migration support services.