A talk JiveWorld 2016: Explains why Virgin Media values institutional memory and how Sei Mani developed software to migrate content, follow relationships, communities, documents and posts between two very different, complex API's in a single weekend with an accuracy of almost 100%.
Virgin Media's WebEx Social to Jive Content Migration Story
1. Case Study
Virgin Media
WebEx Social to Jive
Content Migration
14 March 2016
Max Carton
Senior Collaboration
Designer, Sei Mani
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Summary
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RESOLUTION
→ Sei Mani requested to conduct 4 week POC to explore alternative to Cisco migration tool
→ Focus on one time migration of most relevant content. No end user involvement
→ Agile methods used to create Minimum Viable Product
→ WxS-to-Jive API’s stress tested
→ POC results in investment in production migration tool
→ Sei Mani delivers MT in 12 weeks
→ Business UAT complete and application RFS
→ Content migrated to Jive production with only ‘deltas’ to move on migration weekend
→ IT confident of preserving institutional memory and able to ‘look the business in the eye’
→ Breathing space to choose timing of live migration
→ Business UAT complete and application RFS
→ Content migrated set as hidden to prevent ‘crap’ being preserved and displayed in search results
→ Carried out extremely complex content mapping
OUTCOMES