Legacy Applications and Migrating to the Cloud

What is a Legacy Application?

A Legacy Application is usually an on-premise dedicated Electronic Document and Record Management (EDRM) system that has been used by a business for potentially decades. Meridio, Opentext, Livelink, RKYV and Documentum are just some of the applications Automated Intelligence has worked on before.

They are usually characterised by their challenges, and expensive nature to support, with lack of resilience, and vulnerable to cyber-attacks as cause for concern. It’s estimated that 60-80% of IT budgets is spent on legacy maintenance and these vulnerabilities are exacerbated as support for legacy applications has ended and the hardware is often outdated.

In the case of Meridio, after June 2015, it was no longer available for purchase and therefore became a legacy content repository. In February 2017, Meridio saw the end of (committed) support, while in February 2019 self-help support also ceased. Our recent Legacy Applications Bitesize Intelligence goes into some more detail on what Legacy Platforms are, their vulnerabilities, the benefits of moving to the Cloud and how Automated Intelligence helps companies on their migration transformation. The other videos can be found here.

How Does Automated Intelligence help companies migrate to the Cloud?

For many companies, their legacy applications are the backbone of their data management, and they will have a lot of processes and integration into other programmes. Our expert team have over two decades worth of experience undertaking migration projects from Meridio to SharePoint Online across both the private and public sector. This includes multiple UK Government departments including The Home Office, PHSO and The Cabinet Office.

We take a step by step approach to the problem and make sure the company has full visibility of the process. We work to understand what data needs extracted and maintained when migrating and this is where our cloud-hosted solution, Datalift can scan file servers and EDRM information, regardless of age and location can be indexed. With Datalift for the first time, your teams can locate and retrieve data which is decades old.