Category Archives: Enterprise Content Integration and Migration

How to Complete a Flawless Migration Process

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When your primary communication tools are exclusively available online (like email), it’s vital to your organization that these utilities stay up and running during your upcoming Microsoft Exchange Online Migration. Through extensive training, dedicated customer support, and three distinct migration transition phases, Vorsite can empower you to kick off your migration efforts flawlessly and start realizing the true benefits of Microsoft cloud solutions today.

Phase One: Planning

Phase one begins with meetings with your organization to help you identify important business and technical issues that could arise during migration. Your dedicated project manager will manage the scope of all work while ensuring that all BPOS services are delivered on time. Some of the tasks delegating to the planning portion of your migration include:

  • Brainstorming in our custom Solution Alignment Workshop (SAW)
  • Determining Internet bandwidth
  • Performing gap analysis of transition
  • Analyzing mobility requirements

 Phase Two: Preparation

The second phase is all about preparation, laying the foundation for key directory data synchronization such as distribution groups, user identities, and contact information. Our services in this phase prepare all company data to transfer effortlessly to your exciting new data management systems. Phase two consists of some of the following tasks:

  • Directory cleanup
  • Client computer setup
  • Communications and training
  • Migration groups and scheduling
  • Reduce mailbox size

A dedicated representative from Vorsite known as the Deployment Consultant will assist your organization with technical and project-related items throughout the entire migration process. He or she will serve as your primary contact for deployment technical issues.

Phase Three: Migration

The final portion of your full-service migration to the Microsoft tools suite is the migration itself, where Vorsite helps your organization implement all user accounts, migrate email content to the Microsoft Online environment, and test all services. We also assist with the following:

  • Submit Standard Operating Procedure
  • Configure all email applications
  • Change MX record
  • Prepare helpdesk and support

What if there was a company that could save you countless on-premises resources and improve your organization’s profitability? With products like Windows Azure, you can build, distribute, and modify scalable applications with the absolute minimum on-premises resources.

Still stuck shuffling paper documents? Are you looking for a virtual solution to keep your organizational documents in a searchable online database? Vorsite offers cloud consulting and solutions in Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online that will bring your company into the next generation of online business solutions, and streamline your document management needs.

 

Gain a Competitive Edge With Microsoft Cloud Services

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April Webinars Early Bird Registration Starts Now!

Vorsite presents two webinars-

1. Why Move to the Cloud?

Date: Thu, April 15

Time: 10-11 am.  Pacific Time.

Presenters: Ed Omland (Microsoft), Jeff Medford (Microsoft), Aaron Nettles (Vorsite)

Register Now!

Agenda

- The Cloud Imperative
- What Can Microsoft cloud services do for you?
- How does the cloud value transform your business operation and efficiency?
- Product Demonstration
- Concerns of migration process and what to expect? How to start?

2. Gain a Competitive Edge with SharePoint Online Solutions

Date: Thu, April 22

Time: 10-11 am.  Pacific Time. 

Presenter: Diane Gallagher (Vorsite)

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SharePoint Online is an effective collaboration and communications platform for businesses of all size. Gain a competitive edge by nurturing customer relationships, streamlining key business process, and increasing communication effectiveness.  This webinar will uncover SharePoint Online Standard, How to get your small business started using SharePoint and  Showcase real-world success stories.

Vorsite Focuses on Innovations Offering Choice, On-Premise or Cloud Services, Paving the Way with a Pricing Reset on their Content and Search Connectors for SharePoint

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Over 50 percent of enterprise-level companies and agencies have procured SharePoint Server 2007 with intent to utilize more Microsoft platforms for critical information, records and collaboration management. Vorsite’s unlimited access model now allows your organization to have an “integrated experience” and a migration vision to SharePoint with predictability and finality for legacy solutions presently in place. Vorsite’s customer and solution base with the new aggressive model will continue to position Vorsite as a leader for integration of content management, collaboration and search.

See the full PR here:http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2627374.htm

Would you like to know more or are you an existing customer? To learn more about this offer contact sales and sign-up for one of our webinars.

We are passionate about ECMci, we bring SharePoint to life.

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We are focused on delivering enterprise content management integration and migration solutions that add value and maximize existing legacy investments.  Also, Vorsite provides services to reduce the cost and barriers to sunseting legacy ECM systems.  A brief description of our products available are below.

Vorsite Products

v-Pass for EMC Documentum (Move or share information between SharePoint and Documentum)

The successor to Vorsite’s Transfer Agent for Documentum has been designed to provide easy and complete transfer of file contents and metadata from SharePoint to Documentum Content Server and back, allowing companies to leverage the years of investments in processes, retention policies and compliance in their back-end systems. This feature allows content authors to save significant re-entry of metadata and ensures metadata accuracy and integrity between SharePoint and Documentum systems.

Learn More About: v-Pass, Vorsite’s SharePoint Connectors for Documentum

v-Parts for EMC Documentum (Integration of Services Available in Documentum from SharePoint)

Vorsite Web Parts technology, v-Parts connects employees to content stored across the organization, allowing users to collaborate within the context of the business process in which they are involved, while using the familiar user interface of SharePoint. Employees working in SharePoint can view content, start complex workflows and perform other activities available in your advanced enterprise content management system.

Learn More About: v-Parts, Vorsite’s SharePoint Connectors for Documentum

v-Pass for IBM FileNet (Next Generation of Vorsite Transfer Agent)

The successor to Vorsite’s Transfer Agent for FileNet, enables SharePoint to connect to existing FileNet repositories to better manage content and mitigate compliance risk across the enterprise.

For more information about our products go to http://www.vorsite.com/sharepointsuite.aspx

How to Enable Vorsite's SharePoint Federated Search Web Part for EMC Documentum

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Vorsite Federated Search for EMC Documentum

The Vorsite Federated Search Connector provides integration points between Microsoft Search Server 2008 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Enterprise Content Management Systems such as EMC’s Documentum. By bridging the gap, Vorsite technologies allow information workers to seamlessly access relevant search results from multiple back-end systems, maximizing the value search delivers to enterprise customers. Federated Search Connectors utilizes the SharePoint search engine and the Documentum search engine to pass search queries to a target system and accept and display results returned from that system. Customers tell us, “I need to find all of the information I can about my client with one search query. I don’t care where it comes from; it just needs to be relevant.” Federated Search Connectors are the fastest and easiest way to perform a search query which is sent to both engines and the results are merged together in a single result view.

Advantages of Federating Content with Microsoft SharePoint Search

By using federated search to return search results:

  • You require no additional capacity requirements for the content index, as content is not crawled by the search server.
  • You can take advantage of a repository’s existing search engine. For example, you can federate to an Internet search engine to search the Web.
  • You can optimize the content repository’s search engine for the repository’s specific set of content, which might provide better search performance on the content set.
  • You can access repositories that are secured against crawls, but which can be accessed by search queries.

Key Features

  • Secure, accessible data
    Information workers use their enterprise content management platform permissions to maintain security of available content.
  • Enhanced business processes
    Federated Search connectors remove the need for multiple files and redundant information.
  • Improved quality of business decisions
    The Vorsite Search Connectors make it easier to locate and retrieve relevant data.

Enabling Our Federated Search Solution in MOSS Search Center *To continue with the instructions below we are assuming that you have already purchased the Federated Search connector from Vorsite, to purchase or get a 30-day free trial contact us.

  1. Install the Vorsite Search Web Part for Documetum which is a component of Vorsite Enterprise Productivity Suite for Microsoft Search
  2. Create a new Search Page, DCTM.aspx
    1. Go to http://MOSSServer/SearchCenter.
    2. Click Site Actions> Create Page.
    3. Create a new Search Page, call it DCTM. Choose (Welcome Page) Search Page for Page Layout.
  3. Add a new tab on the page that opens,
    1. Click Add New Tab
    2. Enter the details as follows:

      Tab Name: DCTM

      Page: DCTM.aspx

      Tooltip: (Optional)

    3. Click Ok.
  4. Create Search Result Page, DCTMResults.aspx. You should be on the Search Center page.
    1. Click Site Actions> Create Page.
    2. Create a new Search Results Page, call it DCTMResults. Choose (Welcome Page) Search Results Page for Page Layout.

      Eight web parts (Search Summary, Search Action Links, Search Best Bet, Search Statistics, Search Paging [2], Search High Confidence Results, Search Core Results,
      Search Paging [1]) are added by default. You can remove all of them.

  5. Add a new tab on the page that opens,
    1. Click Add New Tab
    2. Enter the details as follows:

      Tab Name: DCTM

      Page: DCTMResults.aspx

      Tooltip: (Optional)

    3. Click Ok.
  6. On the same page, locate the Search Box
    Web Part, click Modify Shared Web Part.

     

    1. Expand Miscellaneous
    2. Replace the value in Target search results page URL with DCTMResults.aspx.


    3. Click Apply and then OK to close the Tool Pane.
  7. Add v-Search web part to the bottom zone.
  8. Open the Tool Pane for v-Search
    1. Configure the web part as you would when adding to any other MOSS sites

    Tip: You can leave Tool Pane open for subsequent steps.

  9. You need the Advanced Search link. The easiest way to do so is copy the value from the browser.
    1. Click the Advanced Search link in v-Search


    2. Once redirected to v-Search Advanced Search page, copy the URL (from “/_layout” onwards) displayed in your browser, should like this:

      /_layouts/dctm6/webpartpages/ActAdvancedSearch.aspx?page=http://MOSSServer/SearchCenter/Pages/DCTMResults.aspx&wpid=g_f35e097e_9d0d_4671_a66d_a9890a86659e&returl=http://MOSSServer/SearchCenter/Pages/DCTMResults.aspx

      Note: replace MOSSServer with your server (and include port number if applicable)

  10. Go back to v-Search Tool Pane:
    1. Check Hide Search UI. Since the search string will be passed by the Search box in MOSS Search Center, the search box in <Vorsite Search> is redundant.


  11. You can update the Chrome Type to None so that v-Search does not have any title and border:
    1. Expand Appearance.
      Edit Chrome Type.


    Note: If you select None, you will not have access to the link for changing Documentum Credentials.

  12. Before you leave this page, the final step is to configure Advanced Search link in the Search Box web part.
    1. Locate the Search Box
      Web Part, click Modify Shared Web Part.
    2. Expand Miscellaneous
    3. Replace the value in Advanced Search page URL with the link you recorded in Step 8.


    4. Click Apply and then OK to close the Tool Pane.
  13. Go to http://MOSSServer/Search Center/Pages/DCTM.aspx. Locate the Search Box Web Part, click Modify Shared Web Part.
    1. Expand Miscellaneous.
    2. Replace value in Target search results page URL with DCTMResults.aspx.


    3. Edit Advanced Search page URL, replace the value with what you recorded in Step 8.


  14. Finally check and make sure you can search Documentum content before you check in and publish all new and modified pages.

    Tips: If you click Site Actions> Manage Site Content and Structure, the newly created pages/tabs can be found in Pages, Tabs in Search Pages and Tabs in Search Results.


Contact us at Vorsite, via the contact page, email (sales@vorsite.com), or phone +1 206 781 1797, Toll Free: +1 800 218 7260 to purchase or get a 30-day free trial .

Still have questions, please

The Vorsite Team


Vorsite Offers Free Trial of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Integration and Migration Connectors for EMC Documentum

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Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) May 13, 2009 — Vorsite Corp., the pioneer for developing enterprise content management connectors for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies, announced today a free-trial service for their integration and migration product suite supporting EMC Documentum 6.5. The trial for the “Vorsite Productivity Suite for SharePoint” provides enterprise customers the opportunity to evaluate the available features and realize benefits of the v-Pass and v-Parts products, which includes support for Documentum 6.5.

Enterprise customers that have SharePoint and Documentum interested in additional information or those whom would like to participate in the trial should visit SharePoint Documentum Integration Trial.

Below is a brief description of the key integration and migration products.

v-Pass: More than just archive services, v-Pass is designed to provide easy and complete movement of file contents and metadata from SharePoint to Documentum, thus allowing companies to leverage years of investments in processes, retention policies and compliance in their back-end systems. This product ensures metadata accuracy and integrity when content migrates between SharePoint and Documentum systems.

v-Parts: Connects to content stored across the organization, provided content services, allowing users to collaborate within the context of the business process in which they are involved, while using the familiar user interface of SharePoint. Employees working in SharePoint can search, find, collaborate, share, manage and move, all the while utilizing complex workflows available in existing enterprise content management system.

“With rapidly increasing information within organizations, we understand the concerns and needs of our customers to reduce potential productivity barriers, whether information is stored in SharePoint or Documentum that experience should be seamless”, said Aaron Nettles, CEO of Vorsite Corp. “We are pleased to continue to offer a solution for people to focus on the business at hand.”

v-Parts and v-Pass connectors SharePoint and Documentum address these critical areas:

Employee Productivity
Many employees already use multiple applications and web assets to get work accomplished, why add another one. Provide the same key management, search, and business process and collaboration capabilities from a familiar interface, Microsoft SharePoint sites.

“Time to Value”
Rapid deployment and simplified management, no additional infrastructure is required; the product is managed directly from SharePoint and installed within the SharePoint farm.

Better, faster decision-making
With a unified experience, you get the best of both worlds, enabling actionable access to content and integrated workflow processes within the SharePoint environment drives faster, better informed decision-making.

Powerful, easy-to-use unification
Access to information is within the SharePoint Interface, so naturally it is easy-to-use.

“As the line between personal and business use of social networking and internet sharing services blur, businesses are presented with many new benefits and challenges,” said Nettles “With these challenges in mind, Vorsite will continue to develop content integration and migration solutions that connect people with information critical to their business, provide secure bridges between data stored on-premise and in the clouds, and focus on requirements that enable our customers maximize the benefits and minimize corporate risks.”

For more information about this program or about Vorsite products, visit Vorsite.com, call 206-781-1797, or Follow our SharePoint Documentum Connector Products on Twitter.

About Vorsite
Vorsite is the premier provider of leading enterprise-wide content management integration, collaboration and search solutions. Our solutions connect employees to information and people that are relevant to accomplishing their business goals. Some of the world’s most successful companies across the globe derive significant value by maximizing existing IT investments and logically utilizing Vorsite’s technologies and solutions.

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