Nokia Siemens Network
Goals:
One of the premier telecommunications equipment manufacturers in the world, Nokia Siemens wanted to redesign their main website. However, there were years of legacy content sitting in a legacy content management system. The legacy content management system was built on Microsoft’s .NET platform and was no longer supported by its manufacturer.
Xululabs had to meet the challenge of reverse engineering the data from the system, inventorying it, and transforming it into a format that could achieve a possibility of success.
Solution:
Xululabs built the system that moved the data from the legacy CMS of Nokia Siemens Network, and injected it into their new CMS platform, Drupal.
Two different technical approaches were adopted:
- Reverse engineering the data from XML dumps.
- Screen scraping the data from the legacy system. Both of these processes produced positive results.
Both approaches were combined in week two of the project to produce a hybrid approach where the screen scrapping tapped the data while the XML dumps were used to check for quality and completeness of the scrapped data. The data was then transformed into the target format and then injected into the target Drupal instance.
Xululabs accomplished this task by working with the client to understand the high level requirements and scope of the project. We crafted a technical approach that met the goals and constraints of the client. We put together a team that executed the plan. Monitoring, and controlling the project execution and fine-tuning the plan were all part of this process.
