Understanding data movement and its considerations
In this section, we’ll cover the various stages involved in data migration, and why it is important to invest time in the definition phase of data migration. When considering moving data from one system or another, it is important to ask yourself the following questions:
- Is it appropriate to move the data?
- What will I gain by moving the data?
- Is the data of sufficient quality?
- How would the data be maintained in the long term?
- What governance or other processes should be put in place?
By tackling the questions, we’ve essentially started our data migration process. While one system in the IT enterprise may store a certain part of the data, it may not always make sense to move the data if it is being moved into a target system for the sake of it, just because that system is a shiny new piece of the IT enterprise. For example, I worked with a client in the past who invested in Salesforce to...