Practical Data Migration

This book is for executives, practitioners, and project managers who are tasked with the movement of data from old systems to a new repository. It is designed as a practical guide and uses a series of steps developed in real-life situations that will get you from an empty new system to one that is populated, working and backed by the user population.This new edition is updated to take account of changes in technology and the maturing of the market for data migration services, with two brand new chapters. It guarantees to get the dirty old data out of your legacy systems and transform it into clean new data for your new system.

Johny Morris has over thirty years' experience in IT working as a programmer, analyst, project manager and data architect, and has devoted over twenty years to data migration as a consultant and project manager. He has worked for some of the biggest names in IT consultancy including CSC, Logica CMG and Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) as well as having been involved in large-scale migrations at Barclays Bank, National Grid Transco and the BBC.