ECM Manager
Built for Three Types of Migrations
Syntergy ECM Manager is a Windows desktop application that puts your local content and your content platform side by side—a familiar two pane explorer with your file system and network shares on the left and your ECM repository on the right. Browse, drag, drop, upload, download and migrate—no server side module to install, no infrastructure to stand up.
Behind that simple interface is an enterprise grade migration engine: parallel transfers, automatic retry, SHA 256 integrity checking, metadata mapping, version history reconstruction and full source to destination verification. Assess your content, clean it up, move it, and prove it landed—all from one tool.
How are metadata updates performed?
- Intuitive two‑pane explorer — filesystem on the left, ECM on the right, drag‑and‑drop between them.
- No server module required — installs on the desktop; connects to your platform over secure REST.
- Purpose‑built for migration — wizards for import, export and repository‑to‑repository moves.
- Fidelity first — metadata, versions, timestamps and permissions carried across, not flattened.
Verifiable — checksum‑based reconciliation reports for every job
ECM Manager Use Cases
Powerful data loading tool tuned for high performance built for three types of migrations:
- File shares & network drives → ECM
Years of documents accumulate on shared drives: duplicated, orphaned, un‑tagged and ungoverned. ECM Manager turns that sprawl into governed, discoverable content.
- Assess first. Content Insights profiles the share—volume, file types, size distribution, biggest folders and paths too long for the destination. ROT analysis flags what’s Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial so you migrate what matters and leave the junk behind.
- Tag on the way in. Drive metadata from a spreadsheet with CSV‑mapped ingestion, or apply values by hand—validated against the destination’s field schema before anything moves.
- Move at scale. Parallel, multi‑threaded transfers with conflict handling and automatic retry.
- Govern from day one. Content lands with the right metadata, security and retention—searchable and compliant.
- Cloud onboarding — get customer content into the platform
For platform vendors and partners, ECM Manager is a fast, repeatable way to land customer content in the cloud.
- Bulk ingestion via native migration APIs for high‑volume loads.
- Your storage or ours — stage through customer‑owned Azure Storage or platform‑provisioned containers.
- Seed, then catch up — full seed migrations followed by delta runs that move only what changed.
- Repeatable onboarding — saved connection profiles and background jobs make the tenth customer as easy as the first.
3. Repository consolidation — bring scattered content home
Read MoreKey Benefits
Why Teams Love ECM Manager
A tool that allows you to assess before you migrate, this engine is built for fidelity and used Enterprise security. Prove every byte arrived, migrate your metadata the right way while running interactively or as a background job
Assess Before You Migrate
Content Insights — dashboard view of any share or repository: volume, file types, size buckets, largest folders, oversized files and over‑long paths.
ROT Scanner — classifies content as Redundant, Obsolete and Trivial; reports reclaimable storage before you spend a byte of migration effort.
Built for Fidelity
Three wizards — Import (local → ECM), Export (ECM → local), Migration (repository → repository).
Version handling — current only, most‑recent N or complete history.
Metadata mapping — visual source‑to‑destination field mapping with schema validation.
Preservation — original timestamps, folder structure and permissions.
Conflict policy — skip, overwrite or auto‑rename per job.
Concurrency & resilience — parallel transfers with exponential‑backoff retry.
Prove every byte arrived
End‑to‑end SHA‑256 checksums computed on both sides of every transfer.
Verification reports flag files as Matched, Missing, Extra or Checksum‑Mismatch.
Audit‑ready — export results to CSV or XLSX for compliance.
Metadata done right
Schema‑aware — reads destination field definitions and validates data before migration.
CSV‑driven — populate metadata for thousands of documents from a spreadsheet.
Field creation — create missing destination fields where the platform allows it.
Run it your way
Interactive explorer for ad‑hoc uploads, downloads and browsing.
Background jobs with notifications on completion.
Job history with per‑file detail and CSV/XLSX export.
Enterprise‑grade security
Modern authentication — OAuth2, Azure AD app‑only, API key, ticket and Windows auth.
Encrypted credential store — secrets protected with Windows DPAPI, never stored in plain text.
Do You...
- need to load files from legacy file servers?
- restructure entire folder hierarchies?
- perform massive metadata updates?
- add new document versions or purge old versions?
- perform bulk move, copy, delete or rename operations?
If yes, ECM Manager is built for you.
Supported Connections /Platforms
Connector/Platform |
|---|
OpenText Content Server (xECM) |
OpenText Core Content Management |
NetDocuments eDOCS (formerly OpenText eDOCS) |
Specifications
Technical Specification | Description |
|---|---|
Application Type | Windows desktop application (.NET 9) |
Operating systems | Windows 10 / 11; Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025 |
Deployment | Client side install—no server side module required |
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