Rabobank is ambitious in the leasing market. For a bank, leasing assets is not only financially interesting, it can also help build long-term customer relationships. The contracts of the existing leasing portfolio were migrated from DLL to Rabobank’s new environment. In this article, we share some insights into this migration.
Consider a data migration of a system where you can’t afford down-time: it needs to be invisible for your customers. In such cases, a big bang or tranche-based approach won’t suffice. Only a delta migration strategy can meet this no-down-time requirement. If you’re an architect or project manager responsible for determining your migration strategy, you […]
Data Migration Checklist A controlled data migration is a critical success factor for the implementation of IT systems. Do you have everything in order to start the data migration? Use the free data migration checklist to be sure! Enter your details here and you will receive the checklist immediately by e-mail. Yes, I would […]
100% success is required when migrating large amounts of data. Success is defined by the fact that the data has been transferred correctly and that the target system works as expected. Still, how can you be sure that the data migration was successful? How do you know that from the set of hundreds of thousands […]
This case study describes how a complex data migration was 100% tested using a reconciliation solution. 100% testing means 100% coverage: all non-technical data fields of all records of all tables must be compared before and after the data migration. Custom practice with data migration is to test a representative sample survey, covering 5% or less and only the most critical data fields. Sample surveys, counters and hash codes are insufficient to exclude all possible mismatches and (un)intentional exchanges in the data. 100% coverage is necessary for critical business data, e.g. customer and contract data.
