Migrating Xyleme to dotCMS - looking for experienced guidance/advice

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I’m looking for advice/guidance related to migrating from Xyleme to dotCMS. There isn’t much on the web related to this particular CMS switch, so I’m reaching out to try and find someone who maybe has some experience, insight, and advice for how to make this as smooth as possible.

If you or someone you know has made this switch, please let me know. I have questions…

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Good question here, and while I haven’t had specific experience with Xyleme (maybe someone else will be more helpful to you there), I definitely want to mention the top 2 general best practices for you and anyone else thinking about migrations.

  1. Defining your taxonomy, specifically around your content types (components) that are currently found in your instance of Xyleme. Content design and mapping is the foundation of ensuring a smooth and scalable migration, which leads me to the next thought…
  2. Content import: One of the most tedious, but critical, aspects of migration is just that…migrating content into the structures you’ve built up. Hopefully Xyleme has a good way to export content. If so, you can take those exports and map them to your content types in dotCMS, then use the content import API to get them quickly into the platform. If an export isn’t possible, we could maybe chat offline around some ideas of how to use AI to scrape and transform objects as needed.

Hoping others with some Xyleme experience will chime in with more specifics on that for you, but we’re looking forward to diving in deeper if you have any specific questions on this process for us!