Precision Bridge Newsletter:
Embracing The Season of Renewal
As the season continues to shift, April offers a chance to pause and take stock - of what's growing and what's ahead.
Global Partnership Agreement with Capgemini
We are pleased to announce the signing of a global partnership agreement with Capgemini, a world-renowned leader in consulting, technology services, and digital transformation.
This strategic partnership recognises the strength of our longstanding collaboration built on a successful track record of delivering complex migration, archiving, and data replication projects.
Precision Bridge has been working with Capgemini since 2018, supporting both internal and client programmes across Europe and the United States. The agreement formalises a relationship that has consistently delivered results, leveraging Precision Bridge’s powerful automation technology to streamline and accelerate data transition efforts for Capgemini’s global client base.
“We are delighted to have reached this important milestone,” said Mark Herring, Co-founder and CEO of Precision Bridge. “This partnership reflects the success we’ve had working together over the past several years. We look forward to continuing to support Capgemini in delivering high-impact projects with greater speed and efficiency through the use of Precision Bridge technology.”
The partnership is expected to deepen collaboration on upcoming initiatives and expand the use of Precision Bridge’s solutions within Capgemini’s global delivery framework.
Precision Bridge 8.2 Is Here!
We have now released Precision Bridge 8.2, which includes the following enhancements:
Support for additional attachment support Use Cases
Several other use cases have been added for attachment support including:
All migrations targeting an Ivanti Server
All migrations targeting a Remedy Server
Attachment migration from RSA Archer to database.
Source Deletion support for Database to Database migration projects
It is now possible to configure a migration of data from one database to another, and delete the record from the source database following migration. This supports the Archiving use case.
Validation checks prior to deletion ensure that the records do actually exist on the target system before they are removed from the source.
Support for Jira Confluence as a Source
Migration of Knowledge articles into ServiceNow is now fully supported with an assignment function to transform both the embedded image links and links to other articles so that they will point to the correct image/article in the migrated ServiceNow article. A template has been created to support this use case.
Support for Salesforce Files as Attachments
More recent versions of Salesforce (and Remedyforce) support attaching documents as 'Files' to records. There is a many-many relationship between Files and their associated objects. Precision Bridge now supports both the older 'Attachments' and the newer 'Files' method of attaching a file to a record when migrating from Salesforce.
Tech Talk: AI 2027
Predicting the Impact of Artificial Superintelligence
Wil Artificial Superintelligence ever be achieved and if so what will be the effect on our business and personal lives? These are important questions with many different viewpoints. There are a lot of interesting papers being written on this subject. Click the link to find out more.
Click here to read the full blog post
Upcoming Webinars
We will continue our popular webinar series with the following:
May 7th at 11 AM EST: From Manual to Automated: Transforming Your Service Management Migration Webinar
May 14th at 11 AM EST: Gen AI: Leveraging your Service Management Data
May 21st at 11 AM EST: Automation in Action: Live Service Management Migration Demonstration
See our webinars page for more information and to register or visit On Demand Webinars for a list of all on-demand webinars.
If you would like more information about Data Migration, Archiving, Replication automation or Precision Bridge then contact us here.
Final Thoughts
We round off this Newsletter with one of our Service Management Migration Guide Hints and Tips. You can get a copy of the full guide by attending one of our Data Migration Webinars.
Tip 6: Planning The Scope of Migration
Whilst it is unlikely that you would want to migrate all the data from your current applications to your new one there are many good business reasons to ensure data continuity in the new system. Such reasons include maintaining customer history, existing knowledge, allowing for historical and trend reporting and maintaining asset data. In some cases archiving data is the best approach.
For example in the government, healthcare and finance sectors, there is usually regulation in place which means that you need to keep at least 7 years worth of data. In this case the best option is to archive off the old records to a separate data-warehouse or data-lake where it can still be accessed for audit purposes and you can be confident that you are complying with the regulations.
With respect to the remaining data, key data to consider for migration includes active foundation records (users, groups, locations, etc), knowledge articles, catalog items, asset data and contracts. Active/Open ITSM transaction records can either be closed down on the current system or migrated to the new one but be careful to take into account references to other ITSM records and in-flight workflow processes especially in relation to change requests and service requests.
TIP 6: Consider the criteria for record selection to be included in the migration and what to archive and when selecting a tool to assist in automating the process look for one that supports both migration and archiving.