Helix International: Core Services Overview
Helix International provides specialized services designed to address complex challenges in managing enterprise data and documents throughout their lifecycle. Leveraging over 30 years of expertise in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and our proprietary MARS platform, we help organizations modernize systems, reduce costs, ensure compliance, and unlock the value within their content repositories.
Our core service offerings focus on areas critical to managing large-scale, often complex, enterprise content environments:
ECM Migration & Conversion Services
Migrating content between Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems – whether upgrading, consolidating, or moving platforms (on-premise to cloud, legacy to modern) – is a complex undertaking. Helix specializes in planning and executing large-scale migrations involving diverse source and target systems (including legacy platforms like mainframe, AS/400, and various distributed systems), numerous data formats (print streams, images, office documents), and critical metadata. Our approach emphasizes data fidelity through rigorous reconciliation and chain of custody tracking, utilizing the MARS Migration Server and specialized extractors to handle complexity and ensure minimal disruption.
Content Consolidation Services
Many organizations face challenges with information scattered across disparate systems, applications, and repositories ("data silos"). This fragmentation hinders productivity, complicates compliance, and prevents a unified view of business information. Helix's Content Consolidation services focus on identifying, gathering, and unifying this scattered content. Using the MARS platform's extensive connectivity and transformation capabilities, we help consolidate data from multiple sources and formats into a centralized, more manageable repository or system, improving accessibility and consistency.
Application Retirement & Decommissioning Services
Maintaining outdated legacy applications (like older ECMs, viewers, or custom systems) can incur significant costs related to licensing, specialized hardware, and scarce technical expertise, while also posing compliance risks. Helix's Application Retirement services provide a strategic approach to safely shutting down these legacy systems. This involves analyzing data retention requirements, extracting and archiving necessary historical data, and often implementing solutions like the MARS Real-Time Viewer (RTV) and APIs to provide continued, on-demand access to archived information without needing the original application. This approach allows organizations to realize cost savings quickly while meeting business and regulatory obligations.
These core services are underpinned by the capabilities of the MARS platform and delivered by our experienced global team of ECM developers and data engineers. Explore the links above for more details on each service area.