FileCabinet CS reaches end-of-life on December 31, 2027, and every firm on it has to move its archive somewhere. For firms choosing FileCenter as their document management system, FileCenter is a natural destination. Liscio will migrate your FileCabinet CS archive to FileCenter, with every document classified and searchable on arrival, and with no requirement to subscribe to Liscio to complete the move.
First, the files have to come out of FileCabinet CS properly
FileCabinet CS does not store documents as files in folders. It holds them as page objects in a legacy OLE Structured Storage format, so each document has to be reconstituted into a usable PDF before it can go anywhere. A raw export also strips the folder organization you see on screen. (Full detail here.) This is true no matter which destination you pick, and it is the part firms underestimate.
What Liscio does that a file transfer does not
This is where the difference shows. A DMS-to-DMS transfer that just moves files leaves FileCenter to index whatever arrives. File Intelligence classifies, tags, and renames each document to your firm’s standard before it lands, so your FileCenter library starts organized by issuer, year, entity, and form type rather than mirroring the opaque structure FileCabinet CS exported. The classification is the value we add regardless of which DMS you land in.
That is the through-line across every destination we support: the place holds the files, and File Intelligence makes them findable. See all destinations for the full list.
Why FileCenter as your destination
If your firm has chosen FileCenter as its document management system, Liscio will migrate your FileCabinet CS archive into it. This is worth stating plainly: we will move your files into another DMS, including one that competes with us, because moving your files wherever you want is what no lock-in actually means. You are not choosing between getting a clean migration and choosing your own destination.
How the migration works
- Liscio extracts your FileCabinet CS archive and reconstitutes each document into a complete, readable PDF.
- File Intelligence classifies, tags, and renames each document to your firm’s standard.
- The organized archive is placed in FileCenter, searchable by issuer, year, entity, and form type.
- Your files are yours, in FileCenter, with no ongoing Liscio subscription required.
Ready to move your files out of FileCabinet CS?
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