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We are now getting a steady stream of expert articles into the Data Migration Pro professional community so perhaps it’s time you checked the site out if you haven’t yet had the opportunity.

To read the latest articles which include topics such as:

Data Migration Strategy, Data Migration Tools, Data Migration Scoping, Data Migration Issues, Data Migration Misconceptions and much more just check out the Data Migration Pro expert articles section.

We also have a wide range of data migration, data integration and data quality articles linked into our data migration knowledge finder tool.

Or why not publish your own data migration article, data quality whitepaper or even your own data integration podcast?

We are also about to launch a series of high-quality “coaching call-in’s” with a range of data migration guru’s, including John Morris, author of Practical Data Migration.

We will be focusing on key data migration challenges and allowing Data Migration Pro members to raise questions and join in the debate.

So why not join Data Migration Pro (for free) today and tell us about the challenges you are facing in the areas of data migration strategy, data migration resourcing, data migration contract negotiations, data quality management and all the other issues that rear their heads during a data migration project.

Even a modest sized data migration project will inevitably uncover dirty data - and probably lot’s of it.

The key to success is to prioritise and focus your data cleansing efforts in order to cut the “wheat from the chaff” and find the data quality issues that really impact your data migration project.

There are numerous anecdotes of organisations cleansing vast amounts of legacy data that is not business or project critical.

Data migration guru John Morris sums this up with his Golden Rule No.3:”No organisation needs, wants or will pay for perfect quality data”.

But how do we categorise what “perfect quality data” is for our data migration projects?

John Platten from UK data migration specialists Vivamex has just written a great article on this very subject available from Data Migration Pro by clicking on the link below:

Data Cleansing Categorisation for Data Migration Projects

There are heaps more articles on data migration strategy, data migration technology, data quality, data integration and many other disciplines on Data Migration Pro, here are just use some of the following links:

Data Migration Articles

Data Migration Whitepapers

Data Migration Technology Providers

Data Migration News

Lack of effective upfront scoping is often seen as one of the key failure points in data migration projects. Data migration specialist John Platten of Vivamex has just posted an interesting article that explores the issue of data migration scoping in more detail but from a different perspective to the usual emphasis on tools.

In particular, John stresses the need for data migration professionals to focus their efforts on creating a valid and defensible business case so that we speak in business, not data migration, terminology.

All too often we data migrationists throw up our arms in despair when the client imposes inconceivable deadlines without any thought to scoping but as John rightly points out - is it not our fault for failing to provide sufficient business justification for effective scoping?

A timely article, adds another dimension to the scoping debate and well worth a read, click here for the full article.

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