Data Migrations From Legacy Systems: Tips To Make It Easier

Old HCM, ERP or CRM systems are often business critical since they are ingrained into many processes within a company. But their age often means that the knowledge about how they work is mostly lost and it can be daunting to migrate them to something newer and more streamlined.

We'll show you some tips and best practices to help your data migration from an old or legacy system flow more smoothly, with less stress.

00:00 Introduction
00:52 Reasons to migrate from legacy systems
5:11 Planning and scoping a data migration
6:30 Figuring out the business specification
8:06 Technical analysis
9:58 Effort estimates and planning
10:56 Big bang vs trickle migrations
12:30 Which data to process first?
15:52 Dealing with scope change
19:08 Data quality in migrations
25:41 Data mapping
34:29 Execution
37:34 Data migration for CloverDX

[babatundeoke]

Great resource! This is my 5th view. Bravo!

[devipriyanka]

Very detail and helpful one... Many thanks to you.. ❤

[daviddawid]

Great session am a practicing Business Analyst, when you say Business logic. Could you please give me some examples of what that entails. I always hear the word thrown around... And also from who's perspective is this migration session tailored to