Moving data between systems is a frequently executed process to support enterprise application deployments or mergers and acquisitions. Whatever your business reason is for data migration, it is important to consider the following lessons.
- Ensure your data migration strategy is aligned with the business need
- Make data quality a top priority to ensure trust and integrity
- Plan and scope sufficient resources to minimize risk
Industry leading solution for data migration
Like data warehousing, data quality is a top reason for project failures in data migration projects. To ensure users trust the data in their new systems, data quality should be a key part of your data migration project.
With Business Objects, you have access to over 23 years of expertise in understanding and improving data quality. In addition, you need to plan for the appropriate resources and technologies to support your project. No other vendor can deliver such a comprehensive, market leading set of products and services to ensure the success of your data migration project.
Business Objects delivers market leading products to help you:
- Access, transform, and move any data from virtually any source
- Profile (understand) and cleanse any data
- Test and validate your jobs
- Audit and document your work
Business Objects provides services to help you:
- Support complex requirements with agile project management
- Understand and improve data quality with industry leading skills
- Appropriately scope the effort and resources available
- Provide skills to successfully support your project by using market leading enterprise products
Resources
- White paper:
Roadmap to Data Migration Success
- PDF 3MB - White paper:
Data Migration
- PDF 625KB - Data sheet:
Data Migration
- PDF 122KB - On-Demand Recording:
Bloor Research on Data Migration