Alfresco – Migration
Migration from Alfresco Community Edition to Alfresco Content Services
Meet higher requirements by migrating the Community Edition to Alfresco Content Services
The Alfresco Community Edition (CE) is freely available under the LGPLv3 and is ideal for you if you want to learn more about the platform, for extensive evaluations or departmental use. However, for production use, where enterprise-wide platform features, high availability, enterprise management and proprietary integrations are often required, most organizations opt for the commercially supported version Alfresco Content Services (formerly Enterprise Edition, then One).
If you initially started with the Alfresco Community Edition, you will benefit from the following advantages when upgrading to the Alfresco Content Services Enterprise Edition:
- Scalability and high availability
- Binding update paths
- Simpler administration of the system (web-based admin console, maintenance via JMX)
- Integration into your company processes and infrastructure
- Management of business-critical content
We support you during the changeover with the following services:
- Comprehensive advice and design by certified consultants
- Project implementation with best practice approach
- Support and assistance from specialized administrators
- Own solutions and modules for functional enhancements
Your company can concentrate on the successful implementation of new use cases, as the following topics are dealt with by using Content Services in conjunction with our expertise:
- Community extension modules are outdated and difficult to update
- No customer documentation on why/which modules are installed
- Support responsibilities between customer, Alfresco and Alfresco service provider are unclear
- Application operation is not clarified
- Requirements definition often blurred
- Verification of the upgrade path from Community to Enterprise together with Alfresco
Our migration offer
We offer the following services for your Alfresco Content Services (One, Enterprise Edition) migration:
Before project start
- Non-binding and free initial consultation
- Workshop with the following content
Inventory
Requirements analysis
Report for decision-making
In the project
- Determination of the appropriate Alfresco Content Services (ACS, Enterprise Version)
Necessary so that the first step is to switch from the CE to the “same” version of the ACS.
Upgrades are then a separate step. - Test the changeover
The migration should be run through, verified and tested in advance with productive data before
the actual changeover takes place. - Parallel implementation
As with an upgrade, the new environment should be set up in parallel with the existing environment. - Check the CE extension modules
CE extension modules from the community are often in use. These are often outdated and only
compatible with current versions to a limited extent.
On the one hand, the modules should be the subject of technical analyses and, on the other hand,
should be scrutinized to see whether there are other solutions or ACS modules for the respective use case. - Implementation of specialist solutions
Instead of using CE modules, it often makes sense to bundle functions in specialist solutions.
Support with the configuration and expansion of the solution platform. - Professionalize operations
Often a transfer to an ACS is also a transfer to professional Alfresco operations.
It is good practice to discuss the topics of support, application support, monitoring and
communication channels at an early stage. - Establish support
An experienced Alfresco partner, such as it-novum, offers a professional way to introduce Alfresco support
, including a guideline for the customer and a proven support kick-off with the customer
.