Data Migration

Fully exploiting the value gained from new applications or innovations, and meeting new business requirements is essential. The ability to do so, however, can depend heavily on accessing, reviewing and migrating the data still held in historical systems. However, projects are prone to exceed budgets and timescales, which may result in lost opportunities or even long term damaging consequences to the business. The demands on often scarce resources can frequently result in valuable migrations being postponed. Migration is usually a time consuming and intricate procedure because it involves:

• Finding specialist skill sets
• Resolving redundancies and inconsistencies
• Accessing and understanding historical systems, which often lack up-to-date documentation
• Resolving data quality and validation issues
• Maintaining transparency across disciplines and the life of the project, which may include disparate and/or diverse project team members
• Completing time-consuming and sometimes frustrating testing/re-work and feedback

However, with Transformation Manager (TM), organizations can successfully complete their data migration projects on time, with less risk and within budget by providing a comprehensive tool set with an expert team on hand to assist. Whatever help is desired, whether just initial training and support to direct project assistance the quality of service has proven to be second to none. TM’s key capabilities are:

• Advanced transformations, with built-in data cleansing and validation to ensure data and business rules are adhered to.
• Loading, accessing and reviewing, virtually any historical system’s meta-data
• Numerous built-in features that allow the analysis of data, in terms of content, structure and quality. The results can be re-used through the rest of the transformation process.
• Complete regression test suites to compare and maintain the solution.
• Test and debugging tools with automated documentation, versioning and audit trail that enable incongruent and geographically dispersed teams to work together effectively and rapidly.