Data Migration Service: A Capability your office needs

Any business’ system seeks to increase the sufficiency of the work and build a bridge of trust between the company and the clients, Data Migration is something that your business needs, nowadays, and you as a business owner shall take it into consideration as it is vital for any system implementation, upgrade, or consolidation. The following will indicate all the aspects of data migration and what shall be known about software development, adaptation, and of course migration.

Data Migration 

This notion is used to describe data relocating process; which means transmitting and moving data from one format to another via using certain programming scripts. It transfers data between storage types, formats, or computer systems

Things to do before start data migration

• Choose the best migration vendor to guide your company through the whole migration process
• Review the data classification and retention standards to be able to save time, perform some clean up, and calculate the costs
• Discuss with IT department and members, how to integrate the data migration process
• Avoid changing the environment during the data migration process; architectural and content changes

Phases of Data Migration Process:

• Design
• Extraction
• Cleansing
• Load
• Verification

Why to perform Data Migration Process?

• Improve data quality
• Eliminate superfluous information

What can be migrated?

• Servers
• Databases
• Applications
• E-mails through cloud, dedicated, and virtual environments

Features of Data Migration

• Automated and continuous data replication
• Self-healing and resilient
• Easy to monitor

Troubles that may happen while data migration

The practices of data migration process are somehow a risky procedure that’s why the company shall be careful in each and every step and to make sure that the content and the metadata had been transferred rightly and nothing is missing or even changed. However, there are troubles that may occur while starting such operation like:

• Blocking failures
• Non-Blocking Failures
• Message-level errors
• Folder-level errors

Conclusion:

Data Migration system is a vital new process, that contributing in easing the workflow, increasing the business productivity, and participating in organizing the work.