Entries Tagged 'Strategy' ↓
May 22nd, 2008 — Data Quality, Strategy
Data migration expert and author of “Practical Data Migration” - John Morris. will join us in the next data migration coaching class where we explore some improved practices for managing data quality in data migration projects.
All you need is an internet connection to post questions and listen to the discussion, audio is available afterwards as a podcast (only for registered members).
Click the link below to register for the event:
DQ Best Practices in Data Migration, 29th May 2008 8pm (BST)
(Are you an expert? Want to take part in a coaching class? Please contact us).
If you missed the last session why not download the podcast?
May 22nd, 2008 — Community, Data Migration Technology, Data Quality, Strategy, news
There has been a flurry of new innovations in the industry recently and resident industry analysts Philip Howard and Andy Hayler have been documenting the moves.
We also interview Kognitio CEO Roger Llewellyn about the state of the data migration, their approach and technology.
Arkady Maydanchik, author of Data Quality Assessment, is also onboard our expert panel and is giving us some great insights already on DQ best practices.
Check it out…
April 4th, 2008 — Article, Strategy
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
March 4th, 2008 — Community, Knowledge, Strategy, news
Interesting post from John Morris in his BCS blog last week regarding the announcement of Indian technology services giant Wipro and their move to standardise on Informatica’s new Data Migration Suite offering.
Wipro have announced a factory approach to data migration that claims to enable a large element of the migration work to be implemented offshore for reduced costs.
John raises some interesting issues and questions about these kind of initiatives and his post is well worth a read.
On a practical note - has your organisation ever implemented this kind of solution to data migration?
If so, what kind of issues did you find when geographically outsourcing data migration projects?
What worked well? What didn’t go as planned? Would you repeat again?
This is an important topic and one that is no doubt on the mind of many a senior IT or business leader aiming to cut costs and scale their projects.
If you have any lessons to share from practical experience of data migration outsourcing, please share them here or in the Data Migration Pro strategy group.