Kapow Software enables quick and painless content migration into Oracle WebCenter
Kapow leverages the user interface of Oracle WebCenter system to automatically load content visually without the use of any specific API. The solution's intuitive visual point-and-click Interactive Development Environment (IDE) enables surgical data extraction of all content formats, including static HTML pages, as well as cleansing and standardization of all content through its powerful data transformation functionality.
Featured Customer Success Stories in Content Migration with Oracle WebCenter:

With Kapow, content migration to a new CMS required 20X less effort than the original plan.
Challenge
- Following acquisition of a U.S.-based shipping company, the company wanted to integrate multiple internal self-service portals and migrate content from an old CMS system (Gauss) to their new system (BEA WCMS, now Oracle).
- This would require migrating and consolidating web content from multiple sources.
Solution
- With Kapow, they were able to automate content migration for quick completion.
- Eliminated manual errors through front-end automation.
Results
- 35,000 web pages were migrated in 1 month.
- Migration entailed 20X less effort than the original plan and a fraction of the time projected by other vendors.

California DMV moved to a new CMS in 1 month with zero conversion errors.
Challenge
- To comply with requirements of the Federal REAL ID Act, they needed to consolidate portal content quickly without loss of data quality.
- They needed to migrate content from a home-grown content system to BEA AquaLogic (now Oracle).
Solution
- The California DMV used Kapow to automate migration, eliminating manual data conversion.
- No coding or content freeze was required during content migration.
Results
- Migrated 10,000 web pages and associated documents to the new CMS platform in 1 month.
- Zero data conversion errors.

With Kapow, content migration was complete in 2 ½ weeks.
Challenge
- The Department of Labor needed to migrate 3,500 pages of content from their intranet portal (Labornet) into Oracle WebCenter.
- The content included ASP, HTML pages and 14,000 assets, including images, Word, PDF, PowerPoint, MP3 and WMV files.
Solution
- They evaluated a “black box” approach, but ultimately chose the Kapow automated solution because it provided the most effective way to extract metadata and binary content without the need for extra coding.
- Kapow was able to crawl the file system directly for content and loop through all the source data, including “orphaned” content.
- Content was loaded directly into Oracle WebCenter through the web front-end.
Results
- They spent 5 days on development.
- The migration was complete in 2.5 weeks.

Moving 5,000 HTML pages and 1,000 PDFs to a new CMS was no problem with Kapow. The new system was up and running in 2 ½ weeks.
Challenge
- The organization needed to migrate all of the content on their website into Oracle WebCenter.
- The content included 5,000 HTML pages as well as 1,000 PDFs and Word documents.
Solution
- Using the Kapow Katalyst™ platform, they automated the entire content migration process.
- With Kapow Design Studio, they were able to instantly verify the results as content was migrated.
Results
- The entire process was automated using 4 Kapow robots.
- The migration was finished in 2.5 weeks.

The U.S. Forest Service is saving 40,000 hours of manual effort by migrating content to their new CMS with Kapow.
Challenge
- They need to migrate 100+ individual forestry websites, comprising 45,000 pages of content, onto a single platform driven by Oracle WebCenter.
- Manual content migration would require an estimated 40,000 hours.
Solution
- Using Kapow, content migration is automatic.
- Content migration requires no coding and no content freeze.
Results
- Content migration will be complete in 4-6 weeks.
- No risk of data conversion errors.

The U.S. Navy migrated content from 22 portals and thousands of websites into Oracle CMS using Kapow.
Challenge
- They need to migrate content from over 22 portals with different applications and thousands of websites into a single platform on Oracle WebCenter.
- Many of the affected applications have their own security and user accounts.
Solution
- Kapow automates content migration with no coding required.
- Kapow's technology enables access to target systems through the web browser. Content in secure applications can be accessed using standard login credentials.
Results
- Projected time and cost will be a fraction of manual or scripted methods.
- No risk of data conversion errors.