Tag: data migration

Dylan Jones 1
How to keep your data migration project on the rails

Why do so many data migration projects fall off the rails? I’ve been asked this question a lot and whilst there are lots of reasons, perhaps the most common is a bias towards finding the wrong kind of data quality gaps. Projects often tear off at breakneck speed, validating and cleansing

Dylan Jones 3
3 tips for turning around a sinking data migration

Data migrations can be challenging initiatives at the best of times, but when they start to go wrong they can be devilishly difficult to turn around and keep afloat. In this article I share three simple ideas that may help you gain control of the project and bring that go-live date

Dylan Jones 0
The benefits of turning your data migration on its head

Whilst the success rate of data migration initiatives has climbed in recent years, I still find that one of the key goals of data migration, legacy decommission, often gets overlooked. The financial benefits of shutting down the legacy environment are many. Relinquishing licenses and dormant hardware are obvious advantages of

Jim Harris 0
The architects of the invisible

In the era of big data, Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger noted in their book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, “we are in the midst of a great infrastructure project that in some ways rivals those of the past, from the Roman aqueducts

Jim Harris 0
Stop poor data quality STOP

In the 19th century, the harnessing of electricity brought about the means to transmit signals via electrical telegraph.  The term STOP was used in telegrams to mark the end of a sentence because punctuation cost extra.  Therefore, a telegram requesting an end to poor data quality would literally have been sent as “Stop Poor