Data Migration Done Right: Moving to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Without Losing Your History
Data migration has an image problem. It sounds like the boring, mechanical part of an ERP project — export from the old system, import into the new one, done.
ORACLE FUSION CLOUD ERP FOR GROWING BUSINESSES
Data Migration Done Right: Moving to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Without Losing Your History
The least glamorous phase of the project is usually the one that determines its fate
Data migration has an image problem. It sounds like the boring, mechanical part of an ERP project — export from the old system, import into the new one, done. In reality, it's one of the riskiest phases of the entire implementation, and the numbers back that up starkly: 83% of data migration projects either fail outright or exceed their planned budget and timeline. That's not a niche risk buried in the fine print. It's closer to the default outcome.
Why this phase is so much harder than it looks from the outside
The root problem is almost always the same: companies don't actually know, in enough detail, how messy their existing data is until someone starts trying to move it. A customer record that's been edited by six different people over eight years accumulates inconsistencies nobody individually created on purpose — a shipping address that's a partial duplicate of the billing address, a product code that means one thing in the accounting system and something subtly different in the inventory spreadsheet, years of one-off manual adjustments to inventory balances that were never actually reconciled to a physical count. None of this shows up as a crisis in the old system, because everyone's built up an intuition for its quirks. It becomes a crisis the moment that data needs to move
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