We have recently carried out an migration test run of a client's site from Livelink WCM PS to RedDot and I thought I'd share the results. The analysis phase took about 18 hours to complete and revealed over 9000 pages and more than 8000 digital objects (images and documents). The time taken was slightly longer than expected but still reasonable . The extraction itself surprised us by only taking six hours. That's to extract every object from the repository and all the attributes, custom properties and relationship data; every version and every instance. as this was a test run the RedDot environment used is fairly basic and all text objects were mapped to a simple page template but we did create all 9000 plus pages and recreate the site structure and then populate these pages with the correct content and updated references and links in about 8 hours. That's about 3 days in total for a simple migration of 9000 pages and 8000 digital assets. To do the same in a manual copy and paste way would take approximately 350 days. That's to do the same like for like migration.

Now, there is far more to a migration than we have done here but the extra effort around planning transformation, rules definition and so on is the same for both. The effort of checking and correction is likely to be higher for the manual method too. The main point here is that mim:switch is much faster than a manual migration where the content is appropriate. If you would like to know more have a look at the web site or contact us for a WebEx demo or to talk to us.