If you’re looking to update or overhaul your existing data system, or merge new data, you’ll need to apply a data migration strategy. The process of moving data from one system to another requires a seamless transition to enable better data management.
What is data migration?
Data migration is different to data conversion and data integration:
- Data conversion refers only to the process of transforming data from one format to another
- Data integration combines all the data from different sources into a single source for a unified view.
Data migration is further reaching than both the conversion and integration processes, as it moves digital information across locations, storage systems, databases or formats when a new system or location is introduced. Such migrations are often required for a company to transition from on-site infrastructure to cloud-based storage and applications.
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The process of data migration involves preparing, extracting and transforming the selected data. This can be translated into three basic steps referred to as ETL:
- Extraction
- Transformation
- Loading.
Types of data migration
Migration can take place across a number of processes, including:
- Cloud migration: Data is moved from on-site premises to a cloud, or across clouds
- Storage migration: Moving historical data from an existing cloud storage to a more modern solution
- Application migration: An application program is moved from one location to another, whether that is from an on-premises solution to a cloud or across new clouds.
Why outsource data migration services?
An increasing number of companies are opting for flexible, hassle-free cloud-based solutions. As a result, outsourced data solutions are growing in popularity.
Your data is valuable and requires careful, expert handling during the migration process to ensure high standards of data governance. With the correct preparation and process, the complexities of migrating data, such as ‘data gravity’, are carefully considered and managed through the appropriate software. ‘Data gravity’ refers to the process of data attracting other data as it grows and integrates into a business. During the migration process, data and applications require careful disentangling and restructuring.
Rather than investing in the expensive and complex software required to effectively execute the data migration and combat ‘data gravity’, seeking data migration services from a qualified service provider is more cost-effective and offers peace of mind for all your data migration requirements. Entrusting a data management company with a data migration accelerator ensures efficiency whilst you focus on maintaining your company’s regular operations.
What is data migration acceleration?
Using a data migration accelerator allows companies to minimise risk whilst implementing their data migration faster. As the name suggests, this will not only accelerate data migration but also minimise employee overheads and errors caused by manual data entry, making the migration process more seamless.
FlightPath data migration accelerator
We’re proud to have developed a leading data migration solution with our FlightPath accelerator. Data quality lies at the heart of FlightPath, providing confidence in the health of your data transfer by enabling repeatable and scalable migrations with data quality modules.
FlightPath can be paired with our Data Migration Framework for an even simpler migration, accelerating the migration process and saving you up to 60% per source system. The focus on data quality also grants full visibility of the status of your data migrations, for added confidence.
Designed to optimise your data migration programme, FlightPath makes it easy to deliver migration projects with reduced risk. The existing data is efficiently profiled, cleansed and implemented into the new target system, increasing the data quality whilst reducing costs on source systems and technical resources.
Let us accelerate your data migration
Outsourcing your data migration services from Dufrain ensures effective project management at every stage – from the initial consultation to the mapping of the data and migration timeline management.
If you’re ready to move to cloud-based solutions, speak to our team to find out how our easy-to-use FlightPath data migration solution can increase the value of your data quality whilst offering a seamless transition.
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