In this chapter you will be introduced to the concepts of: Key Business Data Areas; Legacy Data Stores; System Retirement Policies; Data Transitional Rules. These are unique to this approach to data migration and will be constantly referred to elsewhere. They combine to form a powerful group of tools that, if used within the spirit of the Golden Rules and in conjunction with other tools and techniques outlined in this book, can help to build a migration strategy suitable for any enterprise facing a data migration project.

4 Four Key Concepts

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