Every firm that moves its DMS to the cloud expects a smoother, more modern platform on the other side. What they don't always expect is how much the data itself fights them on the way there.
Misfiled content, expired matter data, ROT, duplicates inflate project scope, extend timelines, and drive up costs both before and after migration. A pre-migration methodology is an often overlooked, but necessary component to set a migration up for success. After the data’s been moved, having the right workflows in place ensures content is managed to policy and costs are controlled on a ongoing basis. Firms that skip these critical steps don't save time. They pay for it twice: once to move data that shouldn't have been moved, and again to fix it in the new environment.
Join ActiveNav’s Principal Sales Engineer, John Price, Product Advisor – Data Discovery, Christian Paschke, alongside Dave Malkinson, Founder at SIGNL, who has spent nearly two decades implementing DMS and related technology for hundreds of law firms and legal departments worldwide. Together, they'll share what they've learned from years of migration engagements about what goes wrong, what gets overlooked, and what firms that get it right do differently.
• The data quality issues hiding in your DMS — misfiled content, expired records, ROT, and duplicates, and the unique challenges created by Personal Workspaces — and how each one impacts migration scope, timeline, and budget
• Real-world examples of where migrations stall, go over budget, or create new governance headaches in the target environment
• A practical pre-migration approach that reduces what you move, lowers project costs, and gives you a cleaner, more defensible data estate on the other side
• What post-migration success looks like, including creating a proper review and cadence structure, and the tangible benefits for firms