The Ministry of General Affairs for The Netherlands migrated content from 9 diverse systems into their new CMS with no coding required.
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Challenge
- As a part of their Central Government Communication New Style project, they needed to consolidate 16 websites from 13 different departments into 1 new website, www.rijksoverheid.nl.
- The content from the 16 websites was stored in 9 different content management systems, with over 125,000 unique content items.
Solution
- Kapow enabled the migration and consolidation of this content into a new system, centralized on the Hippo CMS platform.
- No coding was required.
Results
- Dramatic reduction in the cost and time required to migrate each page.
- Completion dates could be fixed because the process ran on a reliable schedule.
- No content freeze was required on the existing systems during the course of the migration.
Santa Clara County saved 5 months and 50% of cost by automating content migration with Kapow.
Challenge
- Migrate content between internal and external portals and between different versions of Vignette CMS.
- Eliminate manual data conversion.
- Enable portal consolidation and content integration.
Solution
- With Kapow, content was automatically migrated between internal and external portals and between different versions of Vignette.
- No coding was required.
Results
- Cost savings of over 50% compared to internal estimates.
- Project was completed in 3 months vs. 8 months projected for manual effort.
- Improved data quality through automated cleansing.
California DMV moved to a new CMS in 1 month with zero conversion errors.
Challenge
- To comply with requirements of the Federal REAL ID Act, they needed to consolidate portal content quickly without loss of data quality.
- They needed to migrate content from a home-grown content system to BEA AquaLogic (now Oracle).
Solution
- The California DMV used Kapow to automate migration, eliminating manual data conversion.
- No coding or content freeze was required during content migration.
Results
- Migrated 10,000 web pages and associated documents to the new CMS platform in 1 month.
- Zero data conversion errors.
With Kapow, content migration was complete in 2 ½ weeks.
Challenge
- The Department of Labor needed to migrate 3,500 pages of content from their intranet portal (Labornet) into Oracle WebCenter.
- The content included ASP, HTML pages and 14,000 assets, including images, Word, PDF, PowerPoint, MP3 and WMV files.
Solution
- They evaluated a “black box” approach, but ultimately chose the Kapow automated solution because it provided the most effective way to extract metadata and binary content without the need for extra coding.
- Kapow was able to crawl the file system directly for content and loop through all the source data, including “orphaned” content.
- Content was loaded directly into Oracle WebCenter through the web front-end.
Results
- They spent 5 days on development.
- The migration was complete in 2.5 weeks.
With Kapow, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services completed their content migration in one-tenth the time.
Challenge
- The DHHS had multiple public-facing websites and portals, each with its own look and feel. They wanted to migrate content to a unified Hyperwave CMS.
- Traditional content migration methods were too time-consuming and costly based on initial estimates.
- As part of content migration, they wanted to detect and correct issues such as broken links.
- As they changed standards, they wanted an automated way to make the changes across all content in the CMS.
Solution
- Using Kapow, web assets and portals were turned into JSR-168 portlets and brought into a single portal, providing a central location to view all DHHS assets.
- Web assets were transformed to promote a common look and feel.
- Content analysis and updates were automated.
- A single search mechanism performs a federated search across all DHHS portlets. Search result links are clipped into a portlet with the same look and feel of the DHHS central site, so links don't take users off the central site.
Results
- 90% reduction of resources and time for content migration.
- No UI redesign was needed.
The NOAA uses Kapow to search, collect, integrate and disseminate content from over 100 sources in real time to support research by federal agencies, non-profits and universities.
Challenge
- The NOAA needed a more effective way to search, collect, integrate and disseminate content from over 100 sources in real time. They considered back-end integration methods, but that approach was too costly.
- Source applications used different technologies: .NET, Java, Cold Fusion, etc.
- Content sources did not have APIs.
- They had no federated search mechanism for publications on the source systems.
- They had no way to create searchable and customizable RSS feeds from content across available sources.
Solution
- The Kapow solution didn't require APIs. Where there were APIs, Kapow leveraged them in a fraction of the time, because the point-and-click development environment took care of low-level API calls and results parsing.
- When content is updated on partner sites, Kapow robots capture and surface the content in real time without the need for back-end access to source sites.
- A single search captures content in all partner sites.
- An RSS search engine locates search terms within RSS feeds. A personalized RSS feed mechanism can generate RSS feeds for individual users.
Results
- 90% less time and resources than alternative approaches.
- No UI redesign was needed.
The Army Corps of Engineers saved $2 million by automating transactions with Kapow.
Challenge
- The USACE had implemented a nationwide project management system to centralize coordination and payment to contractors across 13 districts, but each district had its own unique project management system, requiring thousands of data elements to be migrated to the nationwide system within a 4-month window.
- Failure to meet the deadline would delay payments to contractors and employees and bring projects to a halt, costing tens of millions of dollars.
Solution
- Using the Kapow Katalyst™ platform, USACE implemented a system that automatically synchronized 13 local systems with the new centralized system.
- The system automated more than 250,000 transactions per day.
Results
- The entire automation process was completed in 2 months with two people.
- The system saved $2 million.
The U.S. Forest Service is saving 40,000 hours of manual effort by migrating content to their new CMS with Kapow.
Challenge
- They need to migrate 100+ individual forestry websites, comprising 45,000 pages of content, onto a single platform driven by Oracle WebCenter.
- Manual content migration would require an estimated 40,000 hours.
Solution
- Using Kapow, content migration is automatic.
- Content migration requires no coding and no content freeze.
Results
- Content migration will be complete in 4-6 weeks.
- No risk of data conversion errors.
The U.S. Navy migrated content from 22 portals and thousands of websites into Oracle CMS using Kapow.
With Kapow, Greenland Home Rule completed their content migration to SiteCore CMS in less than 4 weeks.
Challenge
- They needed to migrate 16,000 pages of content into SiteCore CMS.
- Source content included 2 languages (Greenlandish/Danish) and 3 content types.
Solution
- Using Kapow, they will be able to migrate content automatically,
- No coding or content freeze required.
Results
- Planned time for completion is 2-4 weeks.
- No risk of data conversion errors.
With Kapow, Orange County completed content migration to their Vignette portal in 6 weeks.
Challenge
- They needed to migrate content from a variety of county websites into a Vignette portal.
- Traditional methods were too costly and time-consuming.
Solution
- Using Kapow, they were able to migrate content automatically.
- Content migration required no coding and no content freeze.
Results
- The entire migration was completed in approximately 6 weeks.
- Zero data conversion errors.