More than 100 organizations have migrated from legacy document management applications to the Softdocs Platform.
The Softdocs Platform is built to modernize operations across HR, enrollment, student and constituent services, finance, and beyond.
Universities, colleges, school districts, and government agencies are migrating to the Softdocs Platform for lower costs, effortless upgrades, world-class support, and a secure, compliant cloud built for the public sector.
But choosing the right document management and process automation solution isn’t just about technology. It’s about partnering with a modern, mission-aligned vendor. They’re finding that with Softdocs.
Over and over, we hear the same common issues. As legacy applications age, their pace of innovation slows to maintenance mode and the vendor becomes less attentive and attuned to customer needs.
Annual releases that require an entire budget line item for services costs soak up IT budget that could be better spent on innovation.
In order to save cost, some vendors reduce or offshore customer support, leading to slow responses, or worse, no responses.
Some vendors force customers to use legacy applications within proprietary managed data centers that lock customers into restrictive, expensive environments.
Desktop clients, tools that fail basic accessibility requirements and slow, insecure interfaces present unnecessary institutional risk.
When vendors try to sell a "one size fits all" application across all industries, they fail the education and government customers that require key features unique to the public sector.
Migrating from your legacy document management system to the Softdocs Platform isn’t just a technical project — it’s your opportunity to re-imagine how processes work.
Softdocs has advised thousands of public sector entities, helping modernize organizations, empower staff, and deliver best-in-class experiences for students, citizens, and staff. Here are the outcomes we help all customers achieve.
The partnership with Softdocs has been exceptional. Whenever we encounter a challenge, their team is quick to respond and provide solutions, making them a critical part of our technology stack and strategic initiatives.
Chuck Flagg, Executive Director of Technology Infrastructure Oakland Community College
Legacy applications are often saddled with The Softdocs Platform provides next-generation tools for your organization that merge the leading document management with a cloud-native architecture and future-ready AI.
You may already scan and store documents in a centralized repository, applying indexes, and running searches when you need to retrieve records. The Softdocs Platform builds on this foundation by offering a modern, cloud-native repository with intuitive metadata tagging, faster search, automated retention policies, and stronger compliance controls. Documents are faster to find, easier to manage, and protected with confidence.
Old forms tools are crippled with dated limitations: requiring a desktop client to create forms, inaccessible markup, and no mobile support. Softdocs eForms brings you into the modern age with a browser-based, drag-and-drop authoring environment. It features WCAG 2.2 compliance out of the box, promotes mobile responsiveness by default, adds logic-based validation, offers seamless ERP/SIS integration and reusable saved sections, and is easily extended with an online forms library.
Legacy workflow applications with heavy scripting requirements require significant IT intervention or vendor services. The Softdocs Platform modernizes this experience with a no-code, user-friendly workflow builder, conditional routing, and data integrated from your SIS/ERP in a workflow, giving your team hands-on control.
Legacy integrations that require screenscraping of programmed workflows require complex and unreliable custom setups to move data between systems. The Softdocs Platform advances beyond this method with modern APIs that provide secure, bi-directional integrations with ERP, SIS, and CRM systems — eliminating integration fragility while ensuring predictable, structured, and documented data exchange.
Legacy app releases arrive about once a year and the process of upgrading is manual, time-consuming, and expensive. With Softdocs, upgrades are no longer a budget line item or an IT headache. With our automated deployment approach, updates roll out seamlessly with no disruption or downtime. New features are enabled by flexible feature flagging for staff control. No more paid upgrades, scheduling outages, and lost time.
Softdocs has helped hundreds of customers migrate from ImageNow /Perceptive Content, OnBase, Banner DMS, OpenText AppXtender, Laserfiche, Docusign, and others.
Because of our extensive experience with applications like ImageNow and OnBase, we've built dedicated, proprietary migration tools that reliably transition data from those applications into the Softdocs Platform. In fact, it's not uncommon for customers to migrate millions of documents.
Out of all vendors, only Softdocs took the time to understand our needs and have a conversation with nopressure for a sale. It was really comforting to us to know that a company took some time to invest in us.
Mike Mullenix, Business Applications Support Engineer Education Affiliates
We've developed a series of white papers and guides for organizations looking to migrate from legacy applications to the Softdocs platform. They explain what to expect in feature differences, a project timeline, potential outcomes, and more.
Contact us today to request these materials.