Contoso Inc. data migration design
The project team for Contoso Inc. has carefully analyzed the possibilities for data migration and the recommended best practices. They now fully understand that data migration is a complex undertaking and needs proper planning, resourcing, and an appropriate timeframe. They know that the first step is to perform an analysis of their IT systems and solutions inventory to help them figure out where the important data is, and how it can be incorporated into the data migration project.
After they performed this analysis, it turned out that their data landscape was very diverse and complex, and that the data migration process would not be simple. The following were their key findings:
- Within the whole organization, there are approximately 20 global and regional IT systems holding relevant customer data. The technology of these systems is very different, most of this data is, however, stored in various relational databases, such as Microsoft...