How is “data migration” managed for ERP implementation?
To complete the ERP implementation one would need to migrate master data, including customer master, material master, budget head, employee list etc from legacy systems. Large number of earlier transaction (pending transaction for completion, archived transaction for analysis) would also be transported to the ERP system. In a typical corporation these would call for significant amount of data transport. Often they many not be available in machine-readable form. Often manual data will have inconsistencies such as incorrect code numbers, multiple code numbers to represent the same item, misspellings etc that needs data cleansing. Data cleansing itself could be a major activity. Even if data is available in machine-readable form, it may be distributed across heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. Reasonable amount of effort must be spent in reconciling such data. Special utilities are available for data migration both from ERP vendors and third party vendors. For the Indian IT ind
