Eumetsat

The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) operates geostationary satellites over Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean. EUMETSAT, an international organization from the space industry has been using Hummingbird document management (HDM) to manage their strict document policies and security.

Their corporate strategy warranted a move to an Oracle platform which included migrating all the data from Hummingbird DocsOpen to Oracle UCM 11g (UCM). Since the HDM application was customized for the organization, moving data to UCM posed real challenges.

Around half a million documents with multiple revisions had to be migrated with all the attributes, relations, attachments, access rights, and audit history. Other data like users, groups, personal workspaces, and saved searches had to be migrated. The architecture of HDM and UCM are natively different, which meant various types of complex mappings were required to move the documents.

The migration presented several significant challenges:

• Discovery & analysis: Our Discovery tool helped to analyse all available documents in Hummingbird, enabling the identification of any inconsistencies in metadata, content and permission. Numerous reports were generated to identify data corruption and distribution of relevant metadata.
• A large volume of versioned content: Around half a million documents with multiple revisions had to be migrated with all its attributes, relations, attachments, access rights and audit history.
• Different HDM & UCM architecture: The architecture of HDM and UCM was natively different, which meant various types of complex mappings were required to move the documents.
• Complicated UCM mapping: The permission structure in HDM did not have a straightforward mapping onto the UCM permission structure or its permission inheritance.