Industry research suggests that data migration projects frequently exceed their budgets and often take far longer that originally anticipated.
Problems arise where data sources are different and often incompatible. Where migration from older legacy systems are involved the problems can be exacerbated due to lack of adequate documentation, making access and understanding a time consuming and frustrating activity.
There are data migration tools available so the Migration can be accomplished in-house. Alternatively, some organisations write their own software to manage the process themselves. Both approaches can be ineffective because there is a learning curve and burden of on-going maintenance.
Our approach is different and we offer Data Migration as a delivered service and this can be as a fixed price project.
With our proven expertise combined with our Transformation Manager (TM) software platform, we can solve even the most complex Data Migration problems.
TM has been proven in very demanding environments and has been used as part of a project at a Global manufacturing organisation - you can read the case study here.
The power of TM makes it far easier to manage a Data Migration project than by other means. The ability to map complex relationships with comparative ease means that data integrity is preserved enabling the migration to proceed smoothly. Although projects will vary in complexity, the following are typical steps:
- Mapping of data relationships in source systems
- Validation of source data
- Cleansing of data to ensure it is free from defects
- Merging data between data sets
- Manipulation of data towards new structures
- Production of the data in a form suitable for the new systems
- Testing of the produced data to ensure compliance with design goals
Benefits
An ETL Data Migration solution delivers a number of key benefits, including faster delivery, massively reduced maintenance burden and greater cost efficiency.