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Migration Services

Data Migration Services

Dynamic Consultants Group works with you to take your data to where it needs to be. Our migration, integration, ETL, and ESB experts have extensive experience in the planning, developing, and tuning of data migration strategies.

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Data Migration

Migration Services

Dynamic Consultants Group believes that when it comes to data migration and many other IT services, failing to plan is the same as planning to fail. That’s why, before we put together a strategy tailored to your business, we will take the time to assess what your company truly needs. We will analyze the applications and data your business demands, and work with you to define migration essential to your business.

Data Migration Project Methodology

Beyond ETL

Dynamic Consultants Group’s data migration, integration, ETL, and ESB experts have extensive experience in the planning, developing, implementing, and tuning of data migration strategies. With comprehensive and effective data warehousing and data migration solutions, Dynamic Consultants Group knows how to move and manage your data.

Choosing a data migration model that aligns with your business requirements is essential to make sure that any data migration is both smooth and successful. We deliver business value in terms of performance, security, and ROI. Each step of the ESB or ETL process will be tailored to your individual needs and desired outcomes. This will ensure all extracted data is processed and transformed for successful loading into the data warehouse.

Assessment

Strategy & Plan

  • Assess and uncover all dependencies
  • Inventory of applications
  • Assess the technologies and processes involved
  • Data requirements and classifications
  • Assess the skills required
  • Capture metadata
  • Understand and document known issues of applications and data sources
  • Define outcome measures
  • Migration project planning – scope, risks, team, schedules for all activities involved, communication plan, so on
  • Create migration strategy, roadmap, and budget

Design

  • Identify the degree of change needed
  • Service level goals
  • Design goals
  • Refine high level designs
  • Create transition plan
  • Create a system I/O map
  • Create an acceptance test plan
  • Plan test strategies
  • Prototype
  • Design training plan for new environment
  • Identify tools for migration and managing environment
  • Design the data migration as a separate thread

Migration

Build

  • Port the application to new environment
  • Create a target build environment
  • Build the new application for the target platform
  • Migrate, transfer and transform data
  • Create the target production environment
  • Build production platform
  • Build application infrastructure
  • Design end use training

Testing

  • Build test environment
  • Functional testing as per test plan
  • Unit testing
  • Regression testing
  • Integration and performance testing
  • Train the end users and staff

Operations

Manage

  • Asses the current IT management infrastructure, processes, people and tools
  • Perform audits
  • Address critical gaps if any

Support

  • Monitoring-driven optimization
  • Continuous integration and deployment

Take Back Control of your data!

Dynamic Consultants Group works to identify any gaps or improvements that need to be addressed in your existing data sources. This is done through data analysis, interpretation and architecture, as well as verifying the completed migration and the data integrity.

The goal of the data migration assessment is to ensure:

  • Everyone is on the same page in the process. An evaluation is necessary to determine what can and will be transferred from your existing system(s) to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  • We get an exact mapping and schedule of the data on the current system(s) that will be moved to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  • Everyone understands the complexities which dictate the scope of the data migration.
  • Everything goes smoothly when we migrate your data to your new CRM system.
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Data Migration Overview

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    Analysis

    Where is your data? Where do you want it to be? We work to identify any gaps or improvements that need to be addressed. We analyze your existing data and desired transfer data, as well as verifying the completed trial migration.

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    Retrieve

    To move your data, you’ll need to collect it first. It will likely be both structured and unstructured, so we’ll have to locate, examine, and define it based on the newly established infrastructure.

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    Structure

    You need a step-by-step action plan before making any moves. What protocols need to be put into place? How will staff access data? Strong collaboration between our team and yours is crucial here.

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    Migration

    Once processes are defined, the staff is informed and the migration timeline is established, we’ll start migrating your content. The migration will be painless and quick for your team, and you’ll feel confident moving forward.

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How do you Begin the Data Migration Process?

Analysis

Where is your data? Where do you want it to be? We work to identify any gaps or improvements that need to be addressed analyze of the existing data and the data to be transferred, as well as verifying the completed trial migration.

The Goal of the data migration assessment is to ensure:

  • Everyone is on the same page in the process, and what can and will be transferred from your existing system(s) to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  • We get an exact mapping and schedule of the data on the current system(s) that will be moved to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
  • Everyone understands the complexities which dictate the scope of the data migration.
  • Everything goes smoothly when we migrate your data to your new CRM system.

What is the process of data migration?

  • Pre-Review and Make Checklist

    We will provide a data migration checklist, which helps to gather key information regarding your system prior to the Review and Analysis phase of the project. This will assist in determining the primary areas of focus and identify any areas that need more investigation.

  • Backup and transfer of the data

    We will request a backup and transfer of the data that will be migrated with specific backup instructions based on your existing CRM solution. We work with your business needs to efficiently chose a backup process that works best for you.

  • Data mapping and schedule documents

    Using the Review and Analysis meeting feedback, we will create the migration and scheduling documents that will be used during the data migration. This is an important step for us and for you. We ensure that we are on the same page throughout the entirety of the migration.

  • Data migration

    The final step! Once the migration is tested and the data is checked and approved, we migrate your most current data to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 instance. After Migration, we ensure your business a successful roll-out and are available for questions your team may have.

DATA MIGRATION FAQs

  • Is Data Migration Disruptive?

    We believe that data migrations do not need to be disruptive. As a worldwide leader in data migration solutions, we focus on migrating your data around crucial business processes and needs. We work with your current business processes to make sure you get a successful, non-disruptive migration

  • Which ETL tools do you use?

    The main tool we use for ETL is ScribeSoft as it is the best to use for Dynamics 365. With Scribe we can connect both your existing system and your new system to the mapping, point each target entity to its corresponding destination entity, map the fields, and the system will do the rest!

  • Who should I contact if I have questions or issues after the data migration?

    We do not anticipate our customers facing issues as a result of the migration, but you can contact us if you run across any problems. We will ensure a complete and successful migration.