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 | Migration Made Easy |  |
- Native Connectivity
- Handles large or small data files
- Powerful visual design tools
The Hidden Cost of Migrating Data
Most purchasers of new applications know the benefits of moving to a more flexible and business-friendly system, and
they budget the cost of acquisition without much difficulty.
However, it is not until they start to move data from the old system to the new, that they realize the hidden cost
in time and resources required to complete a successful migration.
The difficulty of migrating data from a retiring application to a new one is always underestimated. Migrations
are often problematic for several reasons:
- Retiring applications provide limited data-export capabilities. It is in the application vendor's interest to retain your business.
- The Exported data most likely will only be data contained in primary tables and sometimes will not contain vital information such as "notes" data.
- If the retiring application has been customized to account for unique business rules, then added, custom fields are not recognized by export routines.
- Older applications often pack data fields into a binary format that is not recognizable to humans; Data that is not well known is complicated data.
- Data will need to be reformatted to fit into the new application's file structure. This may require very flexible transformation capability.
Relieving Migration Anxiety
The Migration Toolkit includes more than 100 native data connectors that allow access and introspection to nearly
any data format, a robust conversion engine, drag-and-drop visual mapping and a rich transformation language.
With Migration Toolkit, data is accessed in its native format by connecting to the underlying data store used by
the application. By connecting to raw data files there are none of the limitations posed by exported files
from the application.
Having native connectivity to the underlying data storage files and tables means that many of the usual limitations
posed by the application's export procedure are eliminated. To convert the data into the format required by the
new application, the visual expression builder with its wizard-driven syntax guide allows reformatting control for
data types, dates and time, addresses, name parsing and much more.
In addition to this functionality, the Migration Toolkit also features:
- Record filtering so that only desired data is migrated across
- Record rejection so that "dirty" data can be remediated in a later conversion
- Expression test panel for checking transformation expressions one record at a time for immediate testing and debugging
- Data browser for viewing live data and before/after results
- Ability to visually parse flat files, define record structure and data types
- An event-driven model that allows even the most complex data structures and data to be efficiently handled without having to exit the designer to write code
Reduce Resource Requirements
Migration Toolkit enables System Integrators, Independent Software Vendors and enterprise IT staff to rapidly
complete migration assignments. With Migration Toolkit implementing new applications is simplified and
requires fewer resources speeding your "time to value".
Benefits with Data Junction Migration Toolkit
- Rapid migration to new applications
- Low total cost of ownership
- Fast ROI for Data Junction Migration Toolkit
- Fast ROI for new applications
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