Why migrate to Cloud?

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The contents of this guide are intended for customers who have decided to migrate Comala Document Management to cloud.

If you haven't made a decision about your migration, read this article for more information.

Confluence Cloud

The benefit of a cloud environment is that your cloud app will always have the most up-to-date features available. It's also less demand on your own IT infrastructure support needs.

More information on benefits of using the Atlassian Cloud platform can be found on Atlassian's Why Cloud?

As we progress through the cloud journey, we will continue to work toward feature parity between our server/data centre apps and our cloud apps. In the meantime, not all features available on our server apps are available for cloud.

Have a look at our product comparison for Comala Document Management cloud and server app. There is also a features roadmap for the development of features for Comala Document Management Cloud app.

The migration journey

Get familiar with Comala Document Management for Cloud

As there are differences between our Server / DC and Cloud products, we recommend that you create a test Cloud instance and install a free trial of Comala Document Management to understand the capabilities...

Comala Document Management for cloud has the following workflows available for you to get started right away:

You can also build custom workflows using the workflow builder.

Migrate

Follow the migration process steps to

  • plan for migration

  • prepare your cloud site including installing the Comala Document Management app

  • use the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant to migrate your content

  • recreate custom workflows in JSON markup in your cloud site and apply to your content

You should allocate time for a test migration to understand the steps required to migrate data and complete re-configuration.

Currently we are only able to migrate the current state for content.

If you need a record of the full workflow history for each document for audit and compliance, the recommended solution is to maintain your server instance in read-only mode.

There are a number of manual migration migration tasks.

Important Information from Atlassian

In October 2021, Atlassian announced their intention to retire their self-managed server offerings as they move their platform to the cloud. Atlassian intends to complete this journey by February 2024. This means existing customers that want to continue to use Atlassian products, will need to migrate to their cloud or data centre platforms.

FAQ Migration Planning