datamodernization

Legacy CRM and ERP systems are often inadequate to deliver new functionality to the business. In support of growing demands from the business users as well as complying with government and industry regulations, many organizations are required to implement standardized applications from market leaders such as SAP, Oracle and Microsoft. However, migrating data from the legacy system to the newer system can be complex, time-consuming and costly.

In choosing a data migration strategy the key questions to ask are:

Can the migration project be carried out within time?
Can the migration project be carried out within budget?
Is the migration process reliable? How can we check if the data has been migrated completely and accurately?
Can the migration process be repeated from the test system to production system?
How do we collaborate data migration across the team?

The documentation on the legacy system is not up-to-date

Need to assemble functional experts for the legacy systems and for the newer systems

The data from the legacy system may be inconsistent

Hand-coding may just delay the process further

Data Acquisition

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

Over time the data quality of legacy systems tends to decrease. 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. For example, there may be fields in the legacy systems that have no equivalent in the new system. Similarly, there may be fields in the new systems 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.

xFusion Studio provides many tools to help you at each stage of data migration to modernize your data systems and stay current with technology.