Business Problem
- Client migrates catalog assets & relation to information assets from lower to higher environments as part of the project content promotions
- The approach was executed manually following the steps during promotion
- Unable to filter, transform assets based new taxonomy defined in IGC 11.7 instance
Lucid Approach
- Lucid designed migration utility with the following features
- To extract assets based on different filters from lower environments
- Transform the assets to new taxonomy
- Validate the assets & its attributes before migration
- Upsert the assets in the higher environment
- Designed caching strategy based on different filter types to optimize the lookup
- Support for custom attributes
- Pre-defined set of validations configurable on the asset attributes
- Basic cleansing support on asset attribute values
- Implemented validation on extension mappings to enforce on mapping document per target table
- Support for both workflow enabled & disabled mode on catalog assets
- Summary of migration with detailed information on transformation, validation & Upsert failure logs for reconciliation
Results
- An automate process for promoting IGC contents to higher environments through migration util
- Support for advanced filtering, transformation & validations providing finer control on the migrated assets
- Option to use the same environment as intermediate staging for intermediate migration
- Support for different filter modes – Application (Host), Category & Collections level facilitating multiple ways to group & migrate assets
Lucid has provided attentive and tailored customer service. They have not only helped us to stand-up our program and platform but see the innovative possibilities of the technology to support AEO’s end goal of becoming a more data-driven organization