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Challenges
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust had been running an electronic medical records archive since 2015, built on OpenText. The underlying storage platform was reaching end of life. The Trust needed to move over 120 million medical record documents including renditions, legal copies and metadata, to a new platform. This wasn’t a simple lift-and-shift. The archive supports ongoing clinical access, so the migration had to be completed:
- Without downtime
- Without data loss
- With full validation of every record
Solution
SynApps deployed and configured migration-center to move all content from the legacy storage platform to the new environment. Key steps included:
- Analysing source data to understand structure, dependencies and risks
- Configuring automated migration workflows for documents, renditions and metadata
- Running the migration in parallel with live operations to maintain access
- Continuously monitoring, tuning and validating data throughout
The project was delivered through a joint team spanning:
- Trust stakeholders (including records management)
- IT and infrastructure teams
- SynApps migration specialists and solution architects
Despite the scale and complexity, the migration was delivered with no disruption to day-to-day access.
Project Success
“Migrating over 120 million patient records without disrupting access was a critical requirement for us. SynApps brought the structure, tooling and experience to deliver this safely, giving us complete confidence in the integrity of our data throughout.” John Baines, Senior Systems Administrator, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
The SynApps Difference
Working closely with the Trust’s IT team, SynApps brought both the technology and the experience to handle a migration of this scale.
Using migration-center from fme AG, SynApps provided a proven platform for automating large, complex content migrations in regulated environments.
More importantly, SynApps combined that tooling with hands-on expertise—configuring, managing and validating the migration end-to-end, rather than leaving the Trust to manage risk alone.
