PROVEN ECM MIGRATION

Transform enterprise content into business intelligence

If your ECM contract is up for renewal, or you're frustrated by increasing costs, limited AI capabilities and poor value return, now is the time to consider an alternative to traditional ECM systems.

ECM migration

You don’t need another ECM.
You need smarter content.

Organizations managing large content repositories are discovering that legacy ECM platforms, with their expensive licensing, rigid infrastructure, stagnant innovation, and limited AI capabilities, are holding them back from realizing the full value of their content assets. Enter the AI-native content platform.

Vertesia's entirely modern, AI-native platform scales dynamically, which means you pay only for what you use. No expensive over-provisioning. No extensive content replication. Not only will you save money, you'll also get all the added benefits of a true AI platform.

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Reduce subscriptions costs

Save 50% or more on annual subscription costs

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Decrease infrastructure costs

Save 60% or more on object storage, database, index, monitoring, etc.

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Increase productivity

Improve access to information and automate knowledge work

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Accelerate transformation

Transform enterprise content into actionable intelligence

TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

ECM vs AI-native content platform

Legacy ECM was designed 20+ years ago to solve a 20-year-old problem: how to store electronic documents and scanned images. AI-native content platforms were built from the ground up to solve today's problem: how to extract intelligence from and enable automation with massive amounts of unstructured information.

Legacy ECM

Store and organize content0 /month

AI-native content platform

Extract intelligence and enable automation8 /month

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AI-native content platform

Capability

Modern architecture
15-25+years old
2-3 years old
Semantic search
Keyword matching
Natural language understanding
Metadata handling
Manually entered
Automatically enriched
Agentic automation
Route work to humans
AI agents perform work
Native AI capabilities and scope
Add-on features, limited use cases, one repository
Agentic, comprehensive, multiple repositories
AI model choice
1-2 specified by vendor
Multi-model support
Low-code customization
Code-heavy
Low-code, no-code
Dynamic infrastructure
Fixed, over-provisioned
Dynamic, cloud-native

Legacy ECM is like a library card catalog—you can find books if you know what you're looking for. AI-native content platforms are like having a librarian who's read everything and can answer questions, make recommendations, and synthesize information across multiple sources.

WHY MIGRATE?

ECM migration benefits and business impacts

Reduce costs
Reduce costs by 50-60%

Organizations are tired of paying too much for glorified document storage and waiting for their ECM provider to offer the AI-capabilities their business needs.

With Vertesia, you'll enjoy:

  • 50%+ lower subscription costs
  • 60%+ lower infrastructure costs
  • AI-first architecture that delivers all the AI capabilities you need, today
Increase productivity
Increase employee productivity

Knowledge workers spend hours every week searching for documents, manually extracting data, and performing repetitive tasks. Your ECM system stores documents but doesn't help you get work done.

With Vertesia, you'll enjoy:

  • 70-80% less time searching for information
  • 90% reduction in manual data entry
  • 5-10x faster document analysis
  • Agentic automation for routine tasks and knowledge work
Enhance compliance
Enhance compliance

The dreaded email arrives: regulatory audit in two weeks. Identify and secure documents with PHI/PII. Verify proper classification. Demonstrate compliance with retention policies. Identify risks and gaps.

With Vertesia, you'll be able to:

  • Automatically identify and even redact sensitive data
  • Continuously monitor for compliance and risks
  • Generate comprehensive audit reports in minutes
From ECM to an AI-native content platform

The theme connecting these improvements is simple: Agentic AI handles routine and complex tasks with verifiable accuracy, giving you full confidence in the data, so you can focus on the work that requires your judgment, creativity, and expertise.

MIGRATION PROCESS

Our migration process is simple and fast

Migrating from one ECM system to another is slow and risky because they rely on document-by-document API transfers. Every file gets downloaded, processed, and uploaded individually. This is a slow, fragile approach, prone to failures and constrained by underperforming APIs.

Vertesia’s migration methodology is fundamentally different.
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"In-place" migration

Binaries (PDFs, images, videos, etc.) can remain in their current storage location.

  • No need to transfer terabytes of data
  • Original files remain untouched and accessible
  • Avoid storage duplication during migration
  • Leverage existing cloud or on-premise storage investments
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Direct data-layer access

Instead of going through APIs, we access the underlying database directly. This means:

  • Reading metadata schemas without manual remapping
  • Transferring millions of documents in parallel
  • Preserving version histories and audit trails
  • Maintaining permissions and access controls
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Parallel, cloud-native processing

Content transfer happens in parallel streams, not sequentially

  • Dynamic scaling enables ingestion of 100+ million documents per day
  • Cloud-native architecture eliminates infrastructure bottlenecks
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Near-real-time synchronization

System changes during migration are synchronized automatically

  • No "freeze" period resulting in business disruption
  • Users can continue working uninterrupted throughout the migration
What makes it so fast?

Your binaries don't need to move. We simply connect to your existing Cloud storage layer. We also can access your database directly, not through restrictive APIs. This means 100x faster metadata migration, no manual property remapping, and near-real-time sync during testing.

INTEGRATION PROCESS

Integrating with other systems is seamless

Another difficult reality of ECM migrations is having to rebuild existing integrations. With legacy ECM, this can be a  lengthy and expensive undertaking — hardwiring one legacy system in place of another.

Vertesia's modern, open standards-based API makes this quick and easy.
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API compatibility layer

Vertesia provides API compatibility or adapter layers that can mimic legacy ECM APIs, allowing existing integrations to continue functioning with minimal changes:

  • Maintains familiar API endpoints
  • Translates requests between legacy format and Vertesia's native format
  • Reduces need to modify integrated applications immediately
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Phased integration migration

Rather than requiring all integrations to change at once:

  • Critical integrations continue via compatibility APIs
  • Non-critical integrations can be updated and refreshed gradually
  • Reduces risk of disruption to critical business systems
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Modern API exposure

Our AI-native content platform offers:

  • RESTful APIs for integrations
  • Webhooks for event-driven architectures
  • GraphQL or similar modern query interfaces
  • Pre-built connectors for common enterprise systems
POST-MIGRATION BENEFITS

AI-powered automation and intelligence

Successful ECM migration isn't just about moving content to a new platform. It's about unlocking capabilities that were impossible with your legacy ECM system.

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Agentic workflow automation

Quickly build and deploy autonomous AI agents that perform multi-step processes such as contract review and approval routing; invoice processing with data extraction, validation, and exception handling; or document classification and metadata enrichment.

  • 60-80% reduction in manual work
  • Improved accuracy and consistency
  • Better audit trails and governance
  • Business scalability without staff growth
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Semantic search

Ask questions in natural language and get accurate answers across your entire content landscape—regardless of the source system or repository.

  • 70-80% reduction in search time
  • Surface information users didn't know existed
  • No more "document archaeology" projects
  • Instant access to institutional knowledge
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Content summarization and synthesis

Generate executive summaries of lengthy documents, synthesize insights from multiple sources, and create comparative analyses accurately and automatically.

  • 5-10x faster document review and analysis
  • Better decision-making with comprehensive insights
  • Faster response to customer queries
  • Improved quality and completeness of analysis
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Intelligent content lifecycle management

Automatically identify duplicate content, move rarely-accessed information to lower-cost storage tiers, flag obsolete documents for deletion based on usage patterns, and ensure retention policies are enforced consistently.

  • 20%+ storage cost reduction within 6 months
  • Improved content quality and organization
  • Automated compliance with retention policies
  • Reduced manual governance burden
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Automated compliance and risk monitoring

Continuously scan all content to identify sensitive data (PII, PHI, confidential information, etc.), detect compliance gaps, and flag regulatory risks automatically.

  • Proactive risk mitigation vs. reactive discovery
  • Automated policy enforcement at scale
  • Faster audit responses with instant reporting
  • Reduced compliance violations and fines
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Intelligent document processing

Automatically extract structured data from unstructured documents: contracts, invoices, forms, technical specifications, reports.

  • Eliminate 90%+ of manual data entry
  • Feed business systems automatically
  • Ensure data accuracy and consistency
  • Consolidate IT spend on legacy capture/IDP systems
WHY VERTESIA

What makes Vertesia different?

The experts at Vertesia bring unmatched expertise in content management, ECM architectures, and how agentic AI can revolutionize your content processes.

Our decades of experience with content management mean that we have a unique understanding of how to work with documents, images, and digital assets – the fuel that powers generative AI.

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Intelligent content preparation

Automate content preparation for LLMs with Semantic DocPrep, delivering superior findability and more accurate outputs

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Unparalleled ingestion rates

While legacy ECM systems commonly struggle to ingest 5M documents per day, Vertesia is capable of ingesting 100M+ documents per day

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Serverless scalability

Unlike legacy ECM platforms, Vertesia scales dynamically based on demand, ensuring you only pay for what you use

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Agentic automation

Leverage AI to automate routine knowledge work, increase document findability, and discover new insights and information

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Cross-enterprise integration

Operate across various object stores, databases, apps, and legacy systems

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AI-native observability and governance

Get runtime monitoring, traceability, and governance for enterprise-grade deployments

Our professional services team has led ECM migrations of 20+ repositories with over 300M documents, including three in excess of 1B documents.
Migration readiness checklist

Assess your ECM migration readiness by asking yourself these questions:

  •   Do you manage a large volume of documents?
  •   Do your current ECM subscription + infrastructure costs exceed $250K?
  •   Is your ECM contract up for renewal or you have the flexibility to exit?
  •   Is your content primarily static/archival (not active check-in/check-out collaboration)
  •   Does your business demand AI capabilities that your current ECM platform can't deliver?
  •   Do you have executive support for a migration initiative?

If you answered "yes" to three or more, migration likely makes strategic and financial sense.

GET STARTED

Complimentary strategic migration assessment

We'll evaluate your ECM environment and provide clear guidance on migration feasibility, timeline, investment, and ROI.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Questions about ECM migration

How long does migration actually take?

It depends on how large the repository is, but for a 500M-document repository, complete content transfer (metadata, ACLs, binaries) can happen in less than 4 weeks. Full production readiness including validation, testing, and cutover completes in approximately 3-4 months—more than 4x faster than traditional 12-18 month migrations.

What about downtime during migration?

Near-real-time synchronization between source ECM and Vertesia during validation period means zero downtime. Users can continue working on legacy systems while migration and testing occur, then cutover happens in a phased approach with minimal disruption.

How do you ensure no data loss?

Every file is checksum-verified, metadata completeness is validated automatically, and rigorous testing occurs before cutover. Our PS team has led migrations of  20+ repositories with over 300M documents, including 3 exceeding 1B. We've maintained a 100% success rate with zero data loss.

Can you migrate from any ECM platform?

Yes. We can migrate from all major platforms: OpenText (Documentum, Content Suite, etc.), IBM FileNet, Microsoft SharePoint, Hyland (Nuxeo, Alfresco, OnBase, Perceptive), M-Files, Doxis (SER Group) and others. Our team includes many of the engineers who built and supported these platforms.

What about custom metadata schemas and workflows?

Our connectors perform direct schema ingest without requiring rebuilding or manual remapping. Custom metadata structures migrate directly. Post-migration, we help you optimize and simplify, where appropriate, but you're not forced to redesign everything.

What happens to integrations with other business systems?

We assess all integration dependencies during planning and ensure they're fully supported or rebuilt post-migration. Vertesia's API-first architecture makes these integrations much simpler than legacy ECM platforms.

How much will it cost?

Investment scales with content volume and complexity, typically $100K-$300K for migrations from 100M to 500M+ documents. Most organizations achieve ROI in less than 1 year from system savings alone, before factoring in the additional value of AI.

Can we migrate in phases?

Yes. Many organizations migrate by business unit, geography, or content type in phases.

What about compliance and regulatory requirements?

Vertesia is built to support regulated industries with SOC 2 Type II certification, full audit trails, data lineage tracking, and support for data residency requirements. Many customers migrate specifically to improve compliance capabilities.

NEXT STEPS

Request a demo and we'll show you what the future of content management looks like.