Friday, 01 August 2008
Martin Fowler's recent blog on Incremental Data Migration did a great job of highlighting the benefits of building data migration into the business-as-usual process of building or implementing new systems.
He pointed out that by starting to construc
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Posted by at 14:48 in From the trenches
Friday, 11 July 2008
Today's issue of The Register carries a piece on the situation Levi finds itself in taking a huge $192.5m hit on their quarterly results filing due to problems rolling out their centralized SAP ERP system.
I'm sure the teams on
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Posted by at 12:40 in Migration failures
Monday, 07 July 2008
Philip Howard's latest posting at www.it-analysis.com proposes the view that real-time data integration is greener than batch because you can spread processing over more time and therefore require less additional compute power to achieve the same end.
This al
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Posted by at 16:07 in Progressive migration
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Just caught Johny Morris's blog in which he neatly differentiates ETL (Extract Transform Load) from Data Migration. His thesis was that ETL is a regular periodic copying of data from one environment to another, and does not therefore require any process around removing the source version of the data or decommissioning. Data Migration by contrast is the permanent, one-time movement of a set
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Posted by at 15:14 in ETL
Friday, 20 June 2008
Sitting in a workshop with a group of senior architects (especially those responsible for delivering enterprise structures supporting 1000s of business applications) it's always interesting to observe where a conversation heads off down an unexpected track.
Recently I was part of such a workshop discussing business transformation and data migration strategies. Of course this session w
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Posted by at 10:14 in Active reconciliation
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Sitting looking out over the bay in Auckland waiting for a delayed flight, I've been passing the time thinking about how the application of standards can help achieve better project outcomes.
Standards give us a common reference point for, among other things, connecting different types of systems and technologies. Without them every time we need to transact business across multiple sy
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Posted by at 10:26 in Allsorts
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
The key focus at the recent Telemanagement World (TMW) conference was Transformation, and the message given by Keith Willetts, the TMF's Chairman was "Don't do it slowly". I don't think he meant by this that business transformation is necessarily a quick process, but rather that the time to get on and engage in it has arrived - and that was reflected in all the conversatio
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Posted by at 11:36 in From the trenches
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
In recent years there’s been plenty of noise in the market around two wannabe technology waves with the usual three-letter-acronyms (TLAs) in the form of MDM (Master Data Management) and SOA (Service Oriented Architectures). Both are potentially huge with the potential to revolutionize the way we operate information technology support for our businesses. MDM offers to ensure consistency i
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Posted by at 15:58 in From the trenches
Saturday, 03 May 2008
As the Softel conference opened in London two days ago Matt Bross (BT CTO) and Bhaskar Gorti (Oracle SVP and GM) both predicted the shift from network/proprietary focused telcos to customer and community experience focused operators delivering services via software. Matt talked about an ‘innovation big bang’ driven by the combination of 10x per annum velocity on all the major techno
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Posted by at 16:38 in Allsorts
Thursday, 01 May 2008
We’ve all read about Data Migration failure and success statistics. The Standish Group have long-built a reputation for looking at IT project failures and studying the reasons for them, and last year Bloor Research and Celona published surveys on Data Migration project failure rates and the industry’s perception of Data Migration.
This all moves one to wonder “What is s
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Posted by at 17:20 in Allsorts
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Data quality has long been a slightly uneasy bedfellow for data migration - many articles have been written on the subject (just try Googling the two phrases together) and it's clear from these that the industry is some way away from real clarity on how they fit together. It is certain that a good migration project can be easily wrecked by taking the wrong approach to DQ, and a company that
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Posted by at 11:07 in Progressive migration
Monday, 17 March 2008
Transformation is a huge wave running through every sector I've worked with in the past few months - including financial services, utilities, telecoms and government. The same drivers seem to apply across these areas - competition, regulation, and business leadership teams ready to take on the challenges of making their enterprises leaner and more agile. CIOs the world over are taking on th
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Posted by at 17:24 in From the trenches
Monday, 25 February 2008
I've been considering how much pain people are prepared to go through before they are willing to adopt a new approach to getting data migration done. I spoke to a manager (let’s call him Harry) at a large (very wealthy) multi-national mobile operator last year who told me his company was pretty good at getting migrations done. By example, Harry told me about a project they’d jus
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Posted by at 16:19 in ETL
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Transformation is everywhere – no matter which walk of life you find yourself in there is a good chance someone is trying to change the way it works. For most organizations there are strong drivers for change, whether they are to enable growth, drive efficiency, or to respond to external stimuli. I originally trained as a Biologist and spent my university years deeply immersed in ce
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Posted by at 10:58 in Allsorts
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
I’ve been mulling over the impact a data migration can have on customer experience. Every company knows the value of happy customers today, and is just as aware of how easy it can be to lose their hard-won trust. A few months ago I heard the CFO of a UK utility company facing the wrath of the doyen of political interviewers, John Humphreys on BBC Radio 4. The utility company had been vote
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Posted by at 16:02 in From the trenches
