Creating a migration plan
Migrating to a new version of WebSphere Commerce impacts several aspects of your business. Review the resources that are provided to help create your migration plan.
A complete migration plan must consider the following aspects:
- New, deprecated, and discontinued functionality in WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0
- Upgrades to the application code and WebSphere Commerce servers
- Business requirements during the migration phase
- Custom application code
- Custom scripts, such as build, deployment, and data load scripts
- Development environment (including source control management systems)
- Build processes
- Testing
- Upgrading and migrating additional software
- Runtime environments
- Deployment processes
- Education and training
- Migration limitations
Review the following sections to help plan the migration of your WebSphere Commerce site: