A legacy system data migration is the process that is required to move data that was stored in a legacy system, out of that system and accurately imported or published into a new system. The steps required to perform a legacy data migration usually consists of:
A legacy system data migration is typically required whenever a legacy system that contains data is upgraded to a newer system, and when either the data is not so simple and consistent to work with, or whenever the newer system does not have any simple methods for automatically importing the data from the legacy system directly into the newer system. Examples of situations or projects where a legacy data migration might be required are:
Below are just a few examples of legacy system data migrations that we have executed for our clients across the world:
| Client's Industry | Client's Objective | Our Service Delivery / Solution |
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| Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) | Our client was a large OEM company using a legacy system called LinkOne. All of their Parts Catalogs were initially created and published in the legacy LinkOne system. The client purchased a subscription to a new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that had lots of new and improved features, including making all of their parts catalogs and parts available online and accessible across their distribution and dealer networks. The objective was to accurately gather all of the legacy content, and successfully migrate it into the new system. | One of the key challenges in this legacy system data migration was that the legacy system did not have a backend database; all of the content was stored in folders on a file
system. This produces a uniqueness challenge, whereby assembly files can exist in different folders, with the exact same filename, but yet the assembly content could actually be
different; eg, a different version or revision of the assembly. To clarify, /some/folder/1101.ldf could be entirely different from /another/folders/1101.ldf, even though they shared
the same filename in different directories. To solve this, we used a special hashing algorithm to hash the contents of each file, and to determine when an assembly was actually
unique. The end result was an accurate migration of unique content into the new system, without extra fluff or duplication.
In total, we migrated:
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| Drilling Equipment Supplier (Oil/Gas) | Our client is one of the world's leading provides of drilling services, equipment and performance tooling for mining and drilling companies. Their after market parts manuals had been created and published in a legacy system named Catbase. They too purchased a new software solution for their after market parts catalogs, and their objective was to extract all of their existing content, and have it successfully migrated into their new online system. | A challenge in this project was trying to accurately extract the data from the legacy system. The developer of the Catbase program implemented their own type of 'encryption' algorithm to make migrating data out of the system difficult. However, it turns out the files were not truly encrypted; instead, it was more an 'encrypted by obscurity' method. Once we discovered a method for accurately extracting their data, we were able to successfully migrate all of their parts catalogs into their new system.
In total, we migrated:
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