Actually we've been doing conversions for years here at KnowledgeLake.  The first one I was involved with was at AG Edwards back in the late 90's when I wrote some applications to move content from FileNet Image Services to Documentum 4i.  After that we continued doing these one off migrations.  I did a FileNet to Viewstar and others at KnowledgeLake worked on Application Extender, SharePoint, several others ECM systems and even some home grown document management systems.

After almost 10 years of doing this we started developing some really good methodologies for doing these migrations and over the last two years we have really started ramping up the amount of FileNet to SharePoint migrations.  Realizing we had stumbled into a legitimate marketplace and with last years release of SharePoint 2007, we decided to build a system around these applications and methodologies and have now released the Content Migration Suite for IBM FileNet.  You can read more about this at http://www.knowledgelake.com/news.asp#migration.

I know there will be a lot of people read this and brush it off because they think there's no way we could possible migrate large FileNet systems to SharePoint, however you shouldn't close your mind so fast until you really understand how SharePoint works.  We have successfully converted systems with over 10 million content items and have done this with just one site and in some cases one Document Library.  Yes, there are some tricks, which is what our system is all about, understanding SharePoint and knowing how to successfully store millions of records.

So give me some numbers you say?  If you read the press release, it states we can move content at a rate of 2.5 million documents per eight hour day per SharePoint Front End Web Server.  We've also added more servers and got close to 10 million per day.

What I can also say is "Don't Try This at Home".  There are some things to know, but I'm not allowed to share them right now... I'd then have to kill you of course.  Cramming millions of content items into any ECM platform without a plan is a dangerous thing to do.  This is the reason we decided to build the product and start helping others with it.

-Chris

Knowing we were heading to Seattle for the SharePoint Conference, a few of us decided we should take advantage of the all the Northwest snow this winter.  Hearing great things about Mt. Schweitzer in Idaho, we decided to jump over to Spokane and rent a car to take in this hidden treasure.  This mountain has been skied since the 60's but luckily the rest of the world hasn't found it yet.  Mostly blues and blacks it's a great intermediate and expert hill, and if you like skiing trees this is the place.

My experience was no lift lines, 100+ inch base, great atmosphere, cold beer.  Add in the fresh snow we got today and that pretty much sums it up.

Easier to just check out the pics... http://chrislcap.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!2B396B3160473E4C!1139/

If you see me this week, be careful about asking me about my weekend because I may not shut up.

-Chris