Migrating from Perceptive Content to SharePoint

We help organisations who wish to migrate from Perceptive Content to Microsoft SharePoint. We support migrations to Online, Teams, Office 365, On-Premises.

Article Contents

• 1. About Perceptive Content
• 2. About Ensentia
• 3. Migrating Perceptive Content to SharePoint
  • 3.1 Typical Approach
  • 3.2 Typical Benefits
• 4. Migrating Perceptive Content with Ensentia
  • 4.1 Ensentia Migration Software
  • 4.2 Ensentia Migration Tool Key Features
  • 4.3 Ensentia Migration Services
  • 4.4 Ensentia Capabilities
  • 4.5 Ensentia Experience and Understanding
• 4. Perceptive Content Migration Highlights
• Screenshots

About Perceptive Content

About Ensentia

Ensentia have specialised in the migration of non-Microsoft content and document management systems since 2009. We assist organisations undertaking such migrations via our migration software, our experience, expertise and capabilities.

Migrating Perceptive Content to SharePoint

Typical Approach

• Discover and understand the current content in Perceptive Content.
• Design and provision the SharePoint destination.
• Design, configure and test the mapping and transformation of Perceptive Content content to SharePoint.
• Execute and track the migration.
• Reconcile the migration

Typical Benefits

• Remove or reduce infrastructure, support, training and licence costs.
• Apply the benefits and functionality of Office 365 and SharePoint to migrated content.
• Leverage Office 365 security, compliance centre, cortex and data loss prevention.
• Consolidate platforms.
• Improve productivity.
• Improve search.
• Reduce archive size.
• And so much more...

Migrating Perceptive Content with Ensentia

Ensentia Migration Software

Our own specialized migration software Ensentia Adaptive Migration can migrate content from Perceptive Content into SharePoint.

The software has been specifically designed for content migrations and is packed with features to ensure a successful content migration.

Ensentia Migration Tool Key Features

• Content migration.
• Retain metadata (fields, properties etc).
• Retain version histories.
• Retain created and modified by details.
• Retain source equivalents to SharePoint content types.
• High performance import with encryption to SharePoint Online using the Microsoft migration API.
• Transform content and meta data.
• Document format conversion on-the-fly (Convert to PDF or PDFA for example).
• Document Optical Character Recognition on-the-fly (OCR for content search in the destination).
• Retain details for users not in Azure AD and / or remap users.
• Tracking of all migrated content to file or database.
• And so much more...

Ensentia Migration Services

• Software, Support and Assistance for a client or partner to complete their own migration using our software.
• Execute a migration for a client or partner as a service.
• Services to assist a client or partner to design, and provision the SharePoint destination.
• And so much more...

Ensentia Capabilities

• Migrate Perceptive Content to SharePoint Online or On-Premises.
• Migrate Perceptive Content to Microsoft Teams.
• Migrate Perceptive Content to Microsoft Office 365.
• Transform content to fit a client requirement or a new information architecture.
• Filter and cleanse content.
• Transform and reapply security, permissions.
• Address retention and disposition.
• And so much more...

Ensentia Experience and Understanding

• Vast experience of migrating content to SharePoint.
• Understanding of Legislative, Regulatory and policy considerations.
• Understanding of Infrastructure and Bandwith implications.
• Understanding of Business change impacts.
• And so much more...

Perceptive Content To SharePoint - Key Points

Traditionally used for scanning storage and retrieval and often found in accounts payable applications Perceptive content can be successfully migrated to SharePoint.

Meta Data

• Key field migration
• Extended property migration
• Annotation data migration
• And more…

Conversions

• TIF to PDF conversion for improved viewing experience
• And more…

Mappings

• Appropriate artefact mappings.  For example Perceptive Content drawer to SharePoint Document Library, image now document type to SharePoint content type.
• And more…

Options

• Single to multipage document conversion.
• And more…

Screenshots

Precision Migration

Retain Perceptive Content Meta Data

Retain versioning

Bulk extract meta data automatically from Perceptive Content

Bulk transform and automatically load this meta data to SharePoint

Bulk extract content automatically from Perceptive Content

Bulk transform and automatically load this content to SharePoint

Scripted Migration - Leverage the Power of Powershell

Use our Powershell Migration CmdLets to build simple or complex migration scripts

Execute and monitor migrations

Manage configuration in PowerShell