- Universal Use Case
STREAMLINE SYSTEMS DATA CONSOLIDATION & MIGRATION
How Profisee can help organizations achieve anticipated operational efficiencies and cost savings from legacy systems consolidation and migration with less risk of project failure, cost overruns or delays.
Systems Consolidation & Migration
Data Domains
Customer, Product, Supplier, Reference
Business Problem
Excess costs, delays, impeded operations
Teams Impacted
IT, LOB Stakeholders, Leadership
MDM Impact
Automate alignment between source & target
Business Problem
Data Strategy
Outcomes Business Problem
Data Inconsistency & Integration Challenges
- Data Silos and Misalignment: Legacy systems have evolved independently, leading to misaligned data structures, formats, and definitions.
- Continuous Data Changes: Ongoing business operations mean that data continues to evolve, complicating consolidation efforts.
- Manual and Outdated Mappings: Data mappings are often manually tracked and quickly become obsolete, incomplete, or inaccurate.
- Unforeseen Complexity: Inherent misalignment between source and target systems can lead to unexpected effort, costs, and delays.
Data Strategy
MDM to Aggregate, Continuously Align
- Automated Data Mapping: Profisee’s MDM provides advanced automation to consistently map source system data to the new system, ensuring up-to-date and accurate mappings.
- Proactive Error Identification: Automatically detect and queue data gaps, invalid values and incomplete information for remediation by data steward teams.
- Enhanced Team Efficiency: Utilize robust fuzzy matching, intuitive interfaces, and data-driven workflows to empower teams to efficiently align and migrate data.
- Continuous Data Monitoring: Implement continuous data quality monitoring and validation to maintain data integrity throughout the project.
Outcomes
Systems Consolidation Benefits Realized Sooner
- Avoid Project Delays: Empower data teams to handle issues proactively and leverage intelligent automation for efficient project execution.
- Prevent Unforeseen Costs: Streamline data cleanup efforts and avoid issues and bugs due to faulty data, reducing overall project costs.
- Eliminate System Errors: Identify and remediate errors before go-live, preventing potential business interruptions and ensuring a smooth transition.
- Realize Consolidation Benefits: Achieve operational efficiencies, reduce IT costs, and meet ROI assumptions by successfully completing the consolidation project.
Frequently Asked Questions About Data Migration
What is data migration?
Data migration is the process of moving data from one location, format or system to another. This process is critical when organizations are upgrading or consolidating systems, transitioning to new platforms or implementing cloud-based solutions.
Master data management (MDM) is a critical enabler of data migration by ensuring that the the data is transferred efficiently and remains accurate, consistent and usable in the new environment.
What types of data migration are there?
There are several types of data migration, each designed to address specific business needs:
- Storage Migration: Moving data from outdated storage systems to modern solutions, such as from on-premises hardware to cloud storage platforms.
- Database Migration: Transferring data between database systems, whether for version upgrades, technology changes or performance improvements.
- Application Migration: Relocating applications and their associated data to a new computing environment, often involving updates or re-platforming.
- Cloud Migration: Transitioning data and applications to cloud environments to leverage scalability, flexibility and cost savings.
- System Consolidation Migration: Combining multiple systems into one unified platform to improve efficiency, eliminate redundancies and reduce costs.
Each type of migration requires a robust strategy and precise execution. Learn more about Profisee’s master data management capabilities that support these processes.
What data migration steps can Profisee assist with?
Profisee supports every stage of the data migration journey to ensure success:
- Data Discovery and Profiling: Identifying the current state of your data, including gaps, inconsistencies and areas for improvement.
- Data Cleansing and Standardization: Preparing your data by resolving inaccuracies, eliminating duplicates and ensuring it adheres to predefined standards.
- Data Mapping and Transformation: Aligning data structures between the source and target systems, ensuring compatibility and proper format.
- Validation and Testing: Verifying that the migrated data is accurate, complete, and functioning as expected in the new environment.
- Post-migration Data Governance: Establishing policies to maintain ongoing data integrity and support future system changes.
What is system migration?
System migration involves transferring an entire IT system, including its data, applications and processes, to a new environment. This could include moving from legacy systems to modern cloud platforms, consolidating multiple systems into a single solution or upgrading to new technologies. The goal is to enhance system performance, reduce costs and align with business growth objectives, all while preserving the integrity and usability of your data.
Profisee’s master data management platform enables seamless system migrations by providing tools for consistent data governance, quality control and system integration.
