Global Specialty Chemical Business Spin-Off – Quote I
As part of a global divestiture, with over 32 involved countries across five continents, the SolutionXchg team supported a 8 month long effort to separate all business documents of a global specialty chemical business from its parent company. Under strong restrictions regarding possible performance impacts on an ailing Documentum system that suffered almost daily interruptions and with minimal impact on the business operations of the parent company, we separated 12.1 million documents from a parent company archive of 34.5 million. Moving from an on-premise environment to a Cloud environment with limit performance required precise planning and a 24 hour operation to maximize throughput and keep the project on track, having all document migrated in time for a full big-bang go-live.
“Thank you Jochen! What a big effort! You did really great! What a great job from all of you! We are highly satisfied with the Document Migration. And thanks for checking on again. We believe we captured all documents in our migration – no tickets on missing documents, even 6 months later. Thanks again for all your great work!”
7 months into a 12 months divestiture project, it became clear to the divesture management team, that archived PDF documents, attached to SAP, had to be included in the scope of the SAP system split efforts. SolutionXchg was contacted by KGS and implementation Partner enowa and tasks to jump onto the running project train steaming at full speed towards a November 1st delivery date, with steep penalties attached to any delays. SolutionXchg developed a phased approach based on a primary migration and several delta migrations, closely following the SAP split cycles 2, 3, and 4. Always on standby and working through nights and on weekends, the SolXchg team managed to deliver the data in time, on budget, and with great accuracy.
“I was chatting with [our mother company’s] IT Global head today and I expressed how impressed I was with the cost of the KGS solutions and your ability to implement it flawlessly. He asked that I share your contact information.”
Michael B., Executive Adviser – Management Consultant
Coming in at the eleventh hour, 2 month before the planned completion date of the divestiture, SolutionXchg set up a successful PoC within just two weeks and started the migration process. Working long hours in a continuous 24-hour operation, 7.35 million documents were migrated on time and on budget, utilizing the SolutionXchg ACC Whitelisting Tool to protect the source archive and the KGS Proxy to allow immediate access to all documents even while the migration was in process:
“You were a wonderful vendor to work with. The way you work as a team should be an example for all the other teams on the project. You have gone above and beyond to ensure the project was a success!”
By engaging with the archival experts at solutionXchg, the company conducted a remarkably smooth and successful migration and now archives financial information at a fraction of the cost associated with its legacy system. In fact, the first-year maintenance fee savings alone paid for the investment:
“With the KGS archival solution, we greatly reduced lifetime ownership costs through significant maintenance fee savings that accrue annually. The other upgrade savings and functionality improvements, while quite meaningful, were just icing on the cake.”
Justin Brands used existing SAP infrastructure and the KGS ContentServer4Storage to store data and documents more efficiently and contain maintenance costs:
“For the past several years, we’ve been struggling to maintain a propriety archival solution that was demanding an increasing amount of our time and fiscal resources to preserve the customer records that are so central to our business. That all ended with SolutionXchg. Today, we have an SAP-centric solution that has dramatically improved how we access, store and administer customer records.”
7 months into a 12 months divestiture project, it became clear to the divesture management team, that archived PDF documents, attached to SAP, had to be included in the scope of the SAP system split efforts. SolutionXchg was contacted by KGS and implementation Partner enowa and tasks to jump onto the running project train steaming at full speed towards a November 1st delivery date, with steep penalties attached to any delays. SolutionXchg developed a phased approach based on a primary migration and several delta migrations, closely following the SAP split cycles 2, 3, and 4. Always on standby and working through nights and on weekends, the SolXchg team managed to deliver the data in time, on budget, and with great accuracy.
“Thank you Jochen, and if I do not speak with you again, now that the project comes to an end, I wanted to say, you have been a wonderful partner to work with! You matched with the team very well! I hope our partner enowa can get you into additional opportunities. Thanks again for all your great work!”
Coming in at the eleventh hour, 2 month before the planned completion date of the divestiture, SolutionXchg set up a successful PoC within just two weeks and started the migration process. Working long hours in a continuous 24-hour operation, 7.35 million documents were migrated on time and on budget, utilizing the SolutionXchg ACC Whitelisting Tool to protect the source archive and the KGS Proxy to allow immediate access to all documents even while the migration was in process:
“I wanted to let you know, that we are highly satisfied with your work and with the project over all: we never worried about you, we never checked on you, you completed your job, you completed it on time, way ahead of schedule. You can have a reference any time from us!”
SolutionXchg managed the archive replacement project, helping the company cut archival costs by $700K over a five-year span. When the manufacturer decided to split into two companies along its product lines in 2016, they again brought in SolutionXchg. The result: additional benefits in cost and time savings, and the companies are positioned for seamless transitions to future archive storage technologies:
“We made our migration deadline, but best of all we delivered a new archival landscape with an efficient architecture that was greatly simplified from the previous version.”
A large nationwide US Bank contracted with SolutionXchg to conduct a high-profile migration.
The project required to move 2.8 million PDF documents from an OpenText and an SAP Content server archive to a new IBM FileNet P8 system. This is what the customer had to say after the cut-over:
“Quiet morning… thanks for checking in. EXCELLENT job. Everyone thought this conversion [from the SAP Content Server] would be a mess… YOU ROCK! I greatly appreciate you [and your team]. As a production support person, no one could appreciate this more. Content Server has been a nightmare for years. Again… Thank YOU!”
A large nationwide US Bank contracted with SolutionXchg to conduct a high-profile migration.
The project required to move 2.8 million PDF documents from an OpenText and an SAP Content server archive to a new IBM FileNet P8 system:
“The experience was wonderful! [The project went so smooth that] we did not have to manage the end user, their expectations and their concerns. The cut-over was a non-event. I wish all our cut-overs would work like that. All business stakeholders are extremely happy. I am glad we chose SolutionXchg and the proxy approach!”
