How could you describe your current migration process? Easy or extremely difficult?

Today's fast changing business environment demands that your business data be safely and easily moved from one system to the next.

Software Labs streamlines data migration by providing fast access to your business information, advanced data mapping capabilities, and exporting options to meet your requirements. Our solutions help you reduce manual migration time and costs by as much as 90%, making us the clear choice for your data migration project.

Data Acquisition Stage

xFusion Studio has native connectivity for most common databases, applications and ISAM files. xFusion Studio also supports connectivity through OLEDB and ODBC, enabling data acquisition from virtually thousands of proprietary data sources.
Often times the information on the legacy system is undocumented. This may happen, for example, if the legacy system is built in-house and the original implementers are no longer with the company. Identifying needed tables and the relationship among the tables is a challenge. xFusion Studio can help you identify the tables as well as the relationships.

Data Quality and Cleansing Stage

If the legacy system has been in place for a while, the data quality tends to decrease over time. Employees may be linked to non-existing departments. Some products may be obsolete. Addresses may be incomplete. A migration project is a perfect opportunity to clean the data before moving it into the new system. xFusion Studio uses state of the art technologies for data profiling and data cleansing. Besides standard data cleansing efforts such as removing obsolete products and customers, xFusion Studio can help identify data inconsistencies, remove duplicates, and in general make data more valuable.

Data Mapping Stage

One reason data migration projects tend to get complex is because there is not always a simple mapping between the legacy system and the new system. There may be fields in the legacy system that has no equivalent in the new system. There may be fields in the new system may that are not available in the legacy system. Finally, the data formats may be different between the old fields and the new fields.

xFusion Studio provides a powerful query object model:

• There are a number of ways to define data mappings and lookups
• xFusion Studio provides powerful out-of-the-box transformation functions to help you convert the legacy fields into the desired format

Post-migration Accuracy Checks

xFusion Studio facilitates developing post migration quality checks in a collaborative environment. For example, the legacy data can be compared with the migrated data and a summary of changes can be exported to Excel.

Post-migration Integration Stage

Sometimes the legacy system may still be in use even after the data has been migrated and the newer system has become operational. Until the legacy system is completely phased out, you need a mechanism to periodically bring over the changed data from the old system to the new system. In these situations, xFusion Studio will help you identify changed data records and bring them over to the new system on a scheduled basis. A migration project requires a complete understanding of the infrastructure technology involved and the IT requirements that determine success.