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CMS migration: getting ready for the big move.

When a family outgrows their home, it's common to make a big move. Websites are no different — whether it's changes to your team or a major expansion of strategy, it's essentially to make sure your content and business goals are met within your CMS.

However, a CMS migration is often underestimated, under-budgeted, and poorly planned. At Blend, we've built a world-class "moving team" to help you get from your old CMS into your new one, well-versed in what's essential to a successful move. Steps such as: 

  • Determining what content will be moved — and what will be left behind.
  • Auditing the current design and content model for adherence to brand standards.
  • Developing a content model that can easily accept existing content — and identifying where issues may arise.
  • Preparing for and performing automated migrations.
  • Providing governance planning and assistance with manual migration.

While a CMS might not have a cozy fireplace, changing CMS platforms significantly alters the comfort level of a day-to-day content team. Blend can help you make that move as comfortable as possible.

Our migration experience.

You want a moving company that can handle any obstacle, from a split entryway to narrow doorways and steep driveways. Your web migration team is no different — migration requires skilled planning and flexibility when faced with the unexpected. Blend has experience migrating from and into dozens of vendor systems, allowing us to refine and cross-pollinate our migration expertise. Some of our CMS migration success includes migrating from:

  • Ektron to Optimizely/Episerver
  • WordPress to Optimizely/Episerver
  • Ektron to Drupal
  • Home-grown CMS to Sitecore
  • Home-grown CMS to Optimizely/Episerver
  • Static HTML to Optimizely/Episerver

Additionally, we've pulled content from various integrations into Optimizely (formerly Episerver), from PHP-based forums to Folio magazine content.

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A Vision for a Pain-Free Migration

Migrations don’t have to be a pain — Blend has a process and vision going forward of how to make the migration process simpler. Learn more in this article from Blend's CTO Joe Kepley.

How we aim to make migrations pain-free.

Prepare for a migration

Moving CMS platforms is like moving homes — preparation is key to making sure the move goes smoothly.

Before you bring in the movers — or, in our case, a development team — it’s important to help ensure your content is unpacked where it belongs and in the expected condition by making sure your team is prepared

Your Preparation Checklist

Related work.

We’ve done a lot of great things for a lot of great clients — and that often means moving content and assets from one place to another. Check out more migration projects similar to this one.