Content Analysis & Migration
Astral’s content migration solutions will increase the value of your information to drive better business outcomes.
Our migration expertise across numerous industry sectors and vendor products delivers significant tangible technical, process and business outcomes. Astral can help your organisation by assessing the current state, determining a migration strategy and approach with the new target state in mind, and executing the migration, minimising interruptions to your core business.
Providing consolidation from multiple repositories and products
Astral has the experience and skills to deliver successful large-scale content migration with:
- Robust planning and execution of complex migration requirements, including data types and volumes, transfer methods (on and offline), and timeline expectations.
- Effective consolidation of multiple repositories and products.
MaaS brings a low-stress, full-service approach to migrations
Astral’s experts offer MaaS solutions that provide:
- Low-stress, full-service approach to migrations
- Specifically tailored to your business needs
- Scalable to meet the capacity and performance requirements of the workload.
- Flexible and accessible migration services at your fingertips.
- Various endpoints for client interfaces, including API and online services.
Any successful migration requires a sound Migration Strategy, covering both business and technical perspectives
Astral can maximise the value of your data migration by delivering:
- Sound Migration Strategy from a business and technical perspective
- Comprehensive analysis of your source data and alignment with your desired business outcomes, including:
- Technical aspects – Extraction, Transform, Load (ETL)
- Business drivers – Change management and user enablement of your new solution.
Working with leading industry tools to unlock the value of your information
With extensive experience in delivering Information Governance to large and small organisations across many industry sectors, Astral can provide the tools you need to bring together your vital information through eDiscovery by:
- Identification, collection, preservation, processing, review, and production of Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
- Streamline and automate complex processes to save time and reduce the risk of errors.
- An iterative mechanism for reducing cost and managing risk associated with the volume and nature of information while ensuring the business operates effectively.
Provide your migration team with the right tools and support
Our migration team has the experience, tools, and support to ensure a seamless migration process.
With years of experience executing migrations, Astral provides:
- Wide range of expertise tailored to suit your unique business needs
- Flexible approach and the broad range of robust migration tools designed to respond to each organisation’s specific needs
- Comprehensive training to empower your team to execute migrations independently.
“Since 2014 Astral have been our trusted information management partner. Astral have delivered significant business value across numerous information management solutions. As part of our recent digital transformation program they architected and implemented our information management solution and migrated millions of records into our enterprise library. The solution deployed by Astral included the governance required to provide the required access to information across the business to empower and enable our staff to access the right information in the context of the business processes being completed.”
Senior Manager – Leading Australian Energy Company
Migration – Leading Australian Energy Company
Across Astral’s customer base the key drivers of Application Rationalisation projects are mergers, takeovers or the centralisation of business units that often have a major impact on the application landscape of the organisations involved. From a content management perspective this can also be driven by the complexity of multiple applications, high cost of maintaining multiple licenses and maintaining support of software and hardware platforms.
Business Challenges
Application rationalisation are often large programs that are driven by application portfolio management, with the emphasis on ensuring that the business retains the right functionality and possibilities. The correct approach and use of software make these large programs more manageable and controllable.
The complexity of rationalising is in determining the size of the project. In addition to an inventory from users and processes, it is essential to analyse the data and content of the applications. Using a standard migration approach and standard extraction connectors across all target repositories ensures that data and content can be quickly transferred to a central environment. It is then possible to quickly gain insight into the quantity, and quality of the data from the various applications so that a well researched migration plan can be planned.
Business Solution
Once all the content and data are identified, it is then important to transfer the selected data and content to the chosen content management application. This is executed following a standard migration approach, with agreed business rules determining which data is or is not included as part of the migration. Through transformation, the data is made suitable for the new data model and value can be added through enrichment techniques.
Business Benefits
In addition to efficiency in the use of the applications other benefits include:
- Reduced risk of data breaches.
- Reduction in the cost of licenses.
- Reduction in cost of management support and hardware.
