FatWire's Migration Tool Enables Easy Migration of Existing Web Content Directly into the FatWire Content Server Repository

Businesses are increasingly launching projects to consolidate and control the "wild west" proliferation of Web sites, intranets, and portals. But moving existing content into a new content management repository can be a time-consuming and surprisingly difficult task. The FatWire Content Server Migration Tool leverages the power of Kapow's RoboSuite software to extract unstructured and unorganized content from your existing sites and migrate it directly into the Content Server repository.

Automates the Content Migration Process...
Highly paid knowledge workers are often tasked with manually migrating existing content to a new system - an expensive and error-prone approach. The Content Server Migration Tool leverages Kapow's robots for spidering through existing HTML files to extract the important content that should be stored in the Content Server repository.

...Without Taxing IT Resources
Automating the migration process usually means that developers are required to write complicated parsing logic to extract content from HTML files. The FatWire Content Server Migration Tool eliminates this resource demand by providing a WYSIWYG interface for analyzing HTML files, highlighting content areas that should be imported, and mapping them to the Content Server repository.

Allows for Ongoing Content Migration
The benefits of automating the collection and aggregation of content do not stop after the initial migration is complete. There are multiple sources of content within the organization that can be moved into your content management system over time. For example, the Migration Tool can be used to gather competitive intelligence from hundreds of data sources, map it to the Content Server repository, and make it available for reuse in multiple corporate sites and applications.

Enables Reuse of Content Moving Forward
After content is extracted from unstructured HTML files, it becomes available for repurposing across multiple sites and applications. Separating content from its presentation allows for greater flexibility in managing content moving forward.

Controls Branding
As Web sites proliferate over time without a centralized content management strategy, branding often becomes erratic. Many times multiple sites within the same business unit look and behave differently, resulting in confused visitors and lost revenue opportunities. Content Server provides a standard template framework that can control the branding of content across multiple sites.

1. Content managers open up existing HTML files with the RoboSuite WYSIWYG tool.
2. Page components are mapped to fields in the Content Server repository.
3. When the mapping is complete, RoboSuite creates a robot that spiders through the site to parse out the prescribed information from similar pages on the site.
4. The archived content is then available for authorized users to edit and enhance through Content Server's easy to use interfaces.