Migration from AS/400 - The Options : FACT : Businesses evolve, adapt and combine. The fittest and most agile survive. In these processes it's sometimes necessary to move away from a platform or system. DMS4U can assist during and beyond the period of transformation. Don't strangle your business by clinging to old technology. Evolve, adapt, survive.

• So what are you going to do with all that data ?
• How do you fulfil your legal obligations to keep valid copies of documents for specific time periods ?
• Invoices - Sales and Purchase - HM Customs And Excise require these are held for at least 6 years.
• Auditors will need access to reports for several years. Management want access to the reports for ever.
• Design documents must be accessible where products are still available.
• Test and materials certificates must be kept for the products life.  20 years ?
• In these post Enron days, we all have to consider long term data storage.

What are the Options ?

• Keep the AS/400 running in the corner, just to house the archive - There is a massive expense related to this.  Expertise, management, hardware maintenance, power etc etc etc....
• Reprint copies of all documents - Incredibly expensive, un-green and highly time/space consuming.... not a realistic option even for the smallest organisation.
• Migrate the documents into an alternate document management system. ( e.g. DocManager Windows server based version ), possible, but costly, and probably duplicates a preferred solution..... leading to massive expense related to this.  Expertise, management, hardware maintenance, power etc etc etc....
• Utilise the DMS4U bureau service to electronically store the old documents enabling secured access across the internet. 

Where next ? Time to call in the experts !    An initial consultancy visit is required to assess : Document Types. Quantities of documents. Space requirement for migrated archive. Options to export indexes (metadata). Data transfer method. Tape types, formats etc. Destination options.  Demonstration of DocManager Windows Server version ? Estimate manpower required.