There are a lot of issues involved with Data Migration, a phrase that trips easily off the tongue and just as easily ends up in a trip to the doggy-doo farm. Migration needs as much consideration and planning as the implementation of any new system and, ideally, should be planned in parallel with it. Some of the issues are:-

• Concerns over control; both physical and managerial.
• Mapping - the process of allocating data from old systems into new systems, field by field.
• Extraction; The ability to access the old data.
• The ability and authority to cleanse and filter the data.
• The processing of disparate data types into the requisite types.
• Management and provision of the testing and control feedback.
• The creation of Audit controls to reconcile record counts as data is processed from old to new system.
• Documentation and communication

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