An 18-month migration of 80,000+ content entries from a legacy CMS to Contentful for a global media publisher — delivered on time, with zero reader-facing downtime.
The Challenge
Sycamore's CMS was a 12-year-old monolith holding 80,000+ articles, 300,000 media assets, and complex taxonomies across 14 editorial verticals. The system was slowing editorial to a crawl and blocking the product roadmap.
The Approach
We designed a structured content model for Contentful, built an automated migration pipeline with validation and rollback, and coordinated a phased cut-over that kept editorial teams productive throughout.
Results
- 80,437 entries migrated with 99.98% fidelity
- Zero reader-facing downtime
- Editorial publishing time reduced by 55%
- Unlocked 3 new product lines post-migration
