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A Data Migration, sometimes referenced as an ETL (extract, transform, and load), involves moving data from one system to another in order to shift business operations from the previous (legacy) system to the new day-forward business system.
Data migrations are often hand-in-hand with new product and platform implementations where the business requires the legacy data to be part of the existing business processes in their new software.
Storing legacy data in the new system creates an easy point of access for business users to find old data.
Leverage your new system's business intelligence, workflows, and custom reports with legacy data elements.
Reduce your legacy system's support and technical debt. In some cases, eliminate legacy licensing.
Data eligible for the migration will be transformed to fit into the new system. This introduces risk, liability, and can impact the accuracy of data.
Your new system will likely not support every piece of data from the old system. Data may be left behind that is considered essential for maintaining compliance.
Data migrations are custom processes written to pull and move information between proprietary systems. A standard data migration involves 2 - 5 different tools and 3 - 5+ resources.
Fundamentally different from a migration, the archived data does not go into the day-forward solution. Instead, the data sits outside of your new solution to offer an easy separation of data while maintaining compliance, integrity, and accuracy.
Data archival can be as simple as a data warehouse or as robust as LiftShift’s Launch platform. Archiving data with Launch allows users to immediately maintain access and optionally extend their solution with a migration or integration at a later date.
Data migrations require transformations to move data between systems. Maintain an accurate representation of your data's original format before the transformations.
Data archival allows you to keep historical data elements that won't fit into your new system. Reduce liability by keeping full access to your old data.
An archival solution reduces your spending by allowing the option of canceling your legacy system's licensing fees.
Will your data need to be maintained, updated, or modified in the archival solution? Do you need to keep the data for X number of years for compliance purposes?
Compare your future tooling costs to the legacy licensing price. Many traditional business intelligence tools charge per user/per year.
A linked integration allows you to keep your legacy data searchable in the new system. Import URLs or PDFs of archived reports, allowing users to access legacy data from the new system.
A PDF Migration is the process of storing data on PDFs from the legacy system. In general, one of two processes is used for a PDF Migration:
PDF Creation connects the legacy system's database to Launch, allowing you to create and design new PDFs in bulk. Launch allows you to customize fields, labels, headers, tables, or values used on your PDF layouts.
PDF Extraction uses the legacy system's API or frontend functionality to create, save, or export PDFs in bulk. PDF Extractions are custom solution services unique to your requirements.
PDFs are a familiar format for users, text-searchable, and OCR friendly when created with Launch. PDF Migrations can be a lower cost alternative to data migrations.
PDFs can be validated by users in the Launch platform and reduce the overhead of a traditional data (ELT/ETL) migration. The Launch PDF solution doubles as Launch Archival, allowing users to test PDF data and layouts on the fly.
Data migrated into PDFs do not require mapping exercises like a traditional data migration. Data can look exactly as it did in the legacy system or be modified to your preference.
PDF data cannot easily be altered in bulk once created. Consider pairing your Launch PDF Migration with Launch Archival to change, re-export, or search reports on the fly.
PDF Migrations are usually implemented when the new system accommodates PDFs. If the new system does not allow for storage of PDFs, you will be required to add a content management system for storage and retrieval.
Custom PDF Extraction can be expensive, depending on the system and number of PDF layouts. PDF Creation with Launch can leverage your existing resources, knowledge, and double as an archival solution.
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