Introduction

What is the purpose of this book?

This book is aimed at practitioners, project managers and purchasers of consultant resources who have a data migration project to deal with. It is designed as a teach yourself guide to data migration. It is written by a consultant with many years’ experience in data migration to give you a series of steps developed in real life situations that will get you from an empty new system to one that is populated, working and backed by the user population.

What type of data migration is covered?

Data migration projects take on many forms. The classic is where a new system is to be implemented and needs to be primed with data from the legacy systems. There are also system consolidation programmes, either ...

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