Data migration challenges and best practices

Data migration is a key part of each large enterprise Power Platform solution implementation. As part of the overall project, it is often underestimated and not planned properly. There are a lot of challenges that need to be considered and included in the project planning and execution phase, as described in the following sections.

Planning and effort estimation

One of the most observed challenges for data migration projects within Power Platform implementations is underestimating the overall effort, project duration, complexity, and timing. Data migration for large enterprise solutions is always a separate project that must be carefully planned and started at the beginning of the overall implementation project. This helps ensure the migration solution is ready at going-live time.

Scoping the migration

In a large Power Platform implementation, at the beginning, it is often required by the customer to migrate every possible data...