In the previous chapter, you learned about the importance of requirements, business processes, solution blueprints, and requirement traceability.
Data is an important facet in any initiative and is often the most complex and underestimated area in ERP implementations. Effective management of data can be achieved with the help of right scoping, tool selection, techniques for migration, validation, and well defined acceptance criteria. In every implementation project, following are two primary segments which a project team needs to address in their data activities and planning:
- Configuration data: Configuration means setting up the base data and parameters to enable your functionalities, such as financial, supply chain, taxation, project management, and so on. Managing these configurations is an important task, as it is mostly driven by the key decisions in your solution and project.
- Data migration: Data migration is the task of migrating data from...