Create a migration plan

Migrating to a new version of WebSphere Commerce impacts several aspects of your business. Review the resources 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 9.0

• 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 the WebSphere Commerce site:

• Planning and sizing sample template for a migration
  Modify the template to reflect your level of customization, site topology, and business requirements to help plan your version 7.0 or 8.0 migration to version 9.0.

Related reference
Overview of a migration project
Migration diagram