Content migration services for legacy content
There are many reasons you may want to start a content migration project. You may need to improve your content usability and findability for your end users, move your documentation to a new tool or application, or completely overhaul your process for creating and managing your documentation.
Whatever your reasons, 3di has the expertise and track record to help you achieve your goals. Our in-house team of technical writers and service managers have been helping companies around the world with their content migration projects since 2002. We know which tools are the best fit for your situation and which processes will work for you. We have access to all the expertise you will ever need to get your content migrated and keep it up to date going forward.
Find out more about our content migration services
What are you calling your content migration project?
Whatever you call your content migration project, we can help.
- Content migration
- Document migration
- Import legacy documentation
- Digitization
- Digital transformation
- Data migration
- Unstructured to structured content
- Tool rationalisation
- Unstructured to structured data
- Migrating to DITA or Flare
Content migration is an opportunity
While content migration can be a complex process, it is a great opportunity for your business. You can take advantage of the migration to get the most value out of your existing content by leveraging content reuse, enabling multichannel publishing, or integrating your content into your other systems. After the migration project is complete, your organisation will have the content for your products and services in sleek, modern formats, that are easy to manage and maintain. Future updates and changes will be quick and easy regardless of where you publish the content.
Part of our process is understanding your motivations for migrating your content project and the gap between your legacy content and what you need content to be. Our team of in-house team technical writers and service managers have experience handling many projects with different goals in mind. Whether your organisation is embarking on a tool rationalisation project, needs to make your existing content available in a new user-friendly format, or needs to create a more efficient content creation and management process, we have the expertise to help. Rather than simply migrating content from one format to another, we can also make continuous improvements to your content throughout the process and help you manage your content once the migration is complete.
Our process for migrating legacy content
Our experience across multiple industries has helped us hone the content migration process. We make it as simple as possible for you – no matter how complex your products or how tight your deadline is. Here’s an overview of our process:
Discovery
We learn about your requirements and existing content to build an understanding of your products and services.
Design the migration plan
We plan and agree on a migration process with you, choosing the best tools, processes and technical writers to achieve your goals.
Migration
We migrate your content to the agreed tool, leveraging our AI-supported automation to speed up the process and make improving content easier.
Content improvement
Depending on your needs, we’ll help you improve and enhance your content, either before the migration process starts or in your new tool, helping you get the most value possible from your content.
Continuous improvement
We agree on a roadmap for improvements, such as adding metadata, restructuring your content, applying a style guide, or identifying content for reuse.
Find out more about our content migration services
If you want to find out more about our award-winning technical authoring team, our process, or our previous work for some of the world’s most well-known companies, you can visit our blog post or case studies pages for more information. Alternatively, if you want to discuss how we can write repair manuals or create technical manuals for you, contact us using the link below.
Case studies
Sperry Marine
Find out how 3di helped Sperry Marine create documentation into printed, HMTL and embedded user help formats.
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