Migration from AS/400 - The Options : FACT : Businesses evolve, adapt and combine. The fittest and most agile survive. As business grow and evolve, it's sometimes necessary to move away from one platform or system to another. Balboa Peaks can assist during and beyond the period of transformation. Don't strangle your business by clinging to old technology. Evolve, adapt, survive.

• So what are you going to do with all that data ?
• How do you fulfill your legal obligations to keep valid copies of documents for specific time periods ?
• Auditors will need access to reports for several years. Management wants access to the reports forever.
• Design documents must be accessible where products are still available.
• Test and material certificates must be kept for the products life- 20 years?  20 years ?

In these post Enron days, we all have to consider long term data storage. What are the options ?

• Keep the AS/400 running in the corner, just to house the archive - There is a massive expense related to this.  Expertise, management, hardware maintenance, power, etc.
• Reprint copies of all documents - Incredibly expensive, eco-unfriendly and highly time/space consuming... not a realistic option even for the smallest organization.
• Migrate the documents into an alternate document management system ( e.g. DocManager Windows server based version), which is possible, but costly, and probably duplicates a preferred solution.
• Utilize the Balboa Peaks bureau service to electronically store the old documents enabling secured access across the internet. 

Where next? Time to call in the experts !    An initial consultancy visit is required to assess: Document Types. Quantities of documents. Space requirement for migrated archive. Options to export indexes (metadata). Data transfer method. Tape types, formats etc. Destination options.  Demonstration of DocManager Windows Server. Estimate manpower required.