It's been a while since I added anything to this blog but I read an email from Tony Byrne at the Real Story (CMS Watch to you and me) and felt compelled to quote something in his newsletter. I am not saying I agree but he is a highly respected industry analyst...

'The product formerly known as RedDot is losing altitude at a precipitous rate. Alterian is discontinuing its .NET-based offering (the former Immediacy product).'

We have seen a disappointing response to RedDot but I have no knowledge of the discontinuation of Immediacy. Tony does comment in the same newsletter about the vibrancy of other players in the same space including our favourite EPiServer.

I have been away for a few days but the Salford City Council migration project has charged relentlessly towards a successful conclusion. The five smaller sites have all gone live and the main site is with the Council for UAT. There is still a bit of work to do at their end getting all of their forms, workflow processes etc in place but it looks like we have had a very successful project migrating the content of 6 sites from Obtree (Livelink WCM PS) to RedDot.

We are putting together all of the metrics from the project (number of pages, time to migrate, tolerance levels etc) into a case study which will be available once the project is signed off. In the meantime if anyone is interested in finding out more about our Obtree migration tool or would like to see a demo migration from Obtree to RedDot, EPiServer or Immediacy, please get in touch.

I don't think there has been a UK holiday I've taken since 1976 where the sun has shone so much. Just back from a week in Center Parcs in Cumbria (except for Tuesday when I got  train to London for a presentation) and the weather was great. We had a really relaxed time (except for Tuesday when I got  train to London for a presentation) and my kids did so many activities they can't remember any of them. I now understand what my dad means every time he says 'that holiday was wasted on you'. In the nicest possible way.

Anyway back to work today and a boiling hot office. This week sees an EPiServer demo for Bargain Booze, the kick off of a migration project (Livelink WCM to RedDot) for Salford City Council, a migration demo for HS, more work on the Livelink to Immediacy migration project for VisitScotland and a meeting with a design agency with a view to forming a new partnership. Holiday? What holiday?

I've just heard today that Visitscotland.org, a long time Obtree/Livelink WCM user, have decided to move off the platform. VS are moving to Immediacy and have engaged one of the Scottish Executive roster agencies to carry out the work. 

We have been asked about using our mim:switch tool to migrate the content from Livelink WCM to Immediacy and fingures crossed we get the chance to do that. Either way we do wish VS every success in their new implementation and hope to have the opportunity to continue to provide support.

If anyone is interested in a demo of our Livelink WCM to Immediacy migration tool please just get in touch and I'm happy to set up a WebEx. If you're quick you might even squeeze into the March draw for the free site audit (there's another in May if you miss the cut) and all entrants receive a 25% discount voucher redeemable against any Livelink WCM PS (Obtree) website migration service from Mimtech.

1. Existing users of Livelink WCM Presentation Server (Obtree) may be entitled to upgrade to RedDot for no additional licensing cost where a functional 'like-for-like' migration is required.

2. Mimtech have developed MIM:SWITCH, our migration toolset that can automate your content move to another solution by connecting directly into the repository via Obtree/Livelink’s API.

3. MIM:SWITCH has been endorsed by Open Text and is their migration solution of choice for users migrating to RedDot.

4. Mimtech is vendor agnostic and can supply web content management software from all the leading vendors including; EPiSERVER, Sitecore, Immediacy and RedDot.

5. Mimtech can supply web content management software on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) rental business model.