Easing the Pain of Migration

The word is out. Migrating content into a CMS is a real pain. So two new companies have developed next-generation conversion tools to help get your messy legacy content into nice, neat XML. "Nahava," started by x-Interwoven co-founder Russell Nakano, puts all the cleaned up content into your spiffy new CMS workflows for perhaps the first formal approval process your text has seen in years (if ever). Meanwhile, CambridgeDocs has come up with its own XML conversion tool. We think both vendors tend to overestimate the cost of a typical migration, but since most people err the other way, we won't harp. More importantly, the rise of a 3rd-party migration tool marketplace suggests that the traditional approach -- perl scripts with a rear echelon of interns -- may not be working for a significant subset of customers...
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