Customizations for complex data migration projects can slow you down.
Mapping data with Microsoft’s DMF
DMF or the Data Management Framework allows you to import data using the same nomenclature but that can be a challenge when migrating from legacy ERP systems. If you have a highly customized environment, this limitation of data entities can be a major expense and development will take a lot of time and effort.
Migrating transactional data
It is possible that your legacy ERP has different or no rules around financial dimensions in comparison to Dynamics 365. In such cases, migrating transactional data can become a hurdle and stall your data migration process. And without appropriate transactional data, for example, the history of orders, it can be difficult to forecast orders.
Multi-company data migrations
It is possible that you have multiple companies or legal entities that need to be covered under your data migration project. If you migrate data for 30-50 companies at a time instead of per company, it will save you a lot of time but D365 does not support multi-company imports.
Data quality
When you are working on a data migration project it is important to scrub out duplicates, and errors during import so that you migrate clean data in your new ERP systems. You will need to customize and plan this in Dynamics 365 to ensure you have a smooth data migration
Key Feature
Data manipulations
Our Data Migration Solution allows you to use placeholders such as transformations, conversions, and default values. The solution allows you to use variables that give you alternate mapping options. Additionally, you can use conditional mapping at the table or field level, without writing code and using configurations.
Key Feature
Data cleansing
Using our solution, you can configure baseline data quality rules for D365 F&SCM and enforce those rules during data migrations. So, if there are any errors, our data quality solution will detect those and only move clean data to D365 F&SCM. Additionally, you can enforce rules, run data quality checks, and do much more even after the migration to ensure you have accurate data in your ERP system.
Key Feature
Set up data hierarchies
To ensure that dependent data is imported into a structure, you can set up a data import hierarchy. This way you can make sure there are no errors due to missing dependent data, after the data has been imported. Set up a data structure with our data migration software based on your organization’s business requirements and you can ensure that base data is imported first and then the dependent data after that.
Eliminate the challenges in handling migration within Dynamics 365
Parallel imports
Using To-Increase’s Data Migration Solution, you can optimize the use of the services usage and quicken your data migration using multi-threading for data imports. Using our software, you can split data and run your data migrations in parallel speeding up migration projects to D365 F&SCM.
Old vs. new relation information
When you migrate data, for example, a customer into D365, the system generates a new unique recid relation id or customer identifier. Using our solution, you can ensure the correct record relations are there for recid relations for transactional data that will later be imported.
Block test data from production
Having test data making its way into production can be disastrous for any organization. Hence our Data Migration Solution has a safeguard feature that inhibits users from accidentally moving test data into the production environment.
Embedded in D365
Since our all our solutions are built using the same business logic as D365 F&SCM, and are embedded in the ERP, you can easily map records and fields even if they are missing in data entities and migrate data into D365 using configurations.
Easier error management
You can set up data quality rules prior to the import using our Data Migration solution. Then run tests and track errors easily in our solution's message history. In case of errors, the import will resume from the point of error instead of processing the entire message.
Control master data
Once all the data is migrated and D365 is live you might also like to govern your (master) data. Using our data governance software mentioned below, you can ensure that data is controlled, validated, and then distributed securely to operational companies by the data stewards.
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