You’re moving to a new platform, merging systems or setting one up for the first time, and everything depends on the data arriving intact. We plan and run that move. We keep your data accurate, preserve the links between records and deal with the edge cases that always appear when two systems store things differently.

Diagram of records moving from an old system to a new one through mapping, cleaning and transfer.

Why It Matters

A failed migration can set a project back by months. Missing records, broken relationships and lost history turn an upgrade into a crisis. When your team can’t trust the new system, they go back to spreadsheets and the old software. A good migration gives them a source of truth they can rely on from day one.

Common Challenges We Solve

Data Doesn’t Map Cleanly

Your old and new systems use different data models, field names and formats. A customer record in one has no clean match in the other.

Poor Data Quality

Your data has duplicates, missing fields, mixed formats and records nobody has cleaned in years. Migrating it as is only moves the problem to a new system.

Downtime Worries

Orders keep coming in and customers keep calling. Your operations can’t pause for a long cutover while data moves between platforms.

Unclear What to Keep

You have years of history and no plan for what to migrate, archive or leave behind. Moving everything is slow and costly, but losing something important worries you.

Our Approach

We run each migration as its own project, with discovery, planning, testing and execution. We study your real data, including quality issues and business rules nobody wrote down. Then we build mapping documents and scripts and run several test migrations. We check each stage with record counts, checksums (digital fingerprints of the data), sample audits and stakeholder review, so migration day holds no surprises.

What We Deliver

Data Assessment & Mapping

We profile your source data for quality and relationships, then document field by field how each value moves to the new system.

Data Cleansing & Preparation

We clean, deduplicate and standardize your data first, including addresses, names and duplicate records, so you start fresh in the new system.

Migration Script Development

Custom extraction, transformation and loading scripts built for your source and target systems. They’re repeatable, so we can run test migrations as often as needed before cutover.

Incremental & Zero-Downtime Migration

If you can’t pause operations, we move data in stages, sync changes during the transition, and finish with a final cutover that causes minimal disruption.

Validation & Reconciliation

Automated checks compare source and target at every stage, from record counts to field values and relationships. A migration dashboard shows what moved and what needs attention.

Rollback Planning

Every migration includes a documented rollback plan, so you can reverse course if something unexpected happens during cutover.

How a Migration Runs

Assess & Plan

We profile your data, document quality issues, map fields and set the scope, timeline and rollback plan.

Build & Test

We write migration scripts and run test migrations in a staging environment until results pass validation and stakeholder review.

Cut Over

We run the live migration to plan, check it as it goes and keep you updated throughout.

Verify & Support

We reconcile the results, verify data in the new system and support your team as issues surface.

Why Choose System Strats

We’ve migrated data between CRMs, eCommerce platforms, ERPs, helpdesks and custom databases. Extraction and loading are the easy part. The real work sits in records that don’t map cleanly, hidden relationships and business rules nobody documented. We surface those issues during testing instead of at cutover. If we can extract the data and load it into the target, we can migrate it.

Data Migration