Data Migration

Requirements management is the key to project success

Insufficient or absent requirements management is one of the most common causes of project failure. Unclear communication channels between stakeholders, incomplete documentation, and a lack of understanding of requirements within the development team lead to serious problems. CONTACT Elements Requirements Engineering helps you ensure the success of your projects and avoid costly mistakes. By systematically consolidating individual requirements into a requirements specification, you create a reliable foundation for successful product development.

Your benefits

Improve data quality during the system transition
Migrate only relevant, cleansed data to the new system
Choose the right migration strategy for your specific system landscape
Ensure a controlled migration through repeatable test runs
Transparently document and track migrated data and discrepancies

Improve data quality through system transition

Not everything in the legacy system belongs in the new one. Every migration therefore starts by deciding which objects and data should be migrated and how they should fit into the new data model. CONTACT Elements turns these decisions into configurable rules rather than handling them case by case: Define the scope, eliminate duplicates and inconsistent naming during migration, and map legacy structures to new object types. This turns migration into an opportunity to improve data quality instead of carrying legacy issues forward.

Improve data quality through system transition

Benefit from experience and proven strategies

Whether you choose a “big bang” migration in a single step or a phased approach, agile or traditional—or, for highly complex projects, temporarily run both systems in parallel—the right strategy depends on your starting point and system landscape. CONTACT brings experience from numerous migrations away from established systems and starts by analyzing your legacy system before putting migration tools to work.

Benefit from experience and proven strategies

Stay in control with automation and transformation rules

The migration toolkit automatically transfers individual records as well as large volumes of data: configuration data and catalogs, CAD documents and their relationships, parts, bills of materials and their structures, projects, requirements, and other PLM objects. Templates and generic components for transformation rules help map this data to the target structures, eliminating the need to develop recurring migration tasks from scratch each time.

Stay in control with automation and transformation rules

Use test runs, logs, and validation for a controlled cutover

Migration is not a one-time effort, but a repeatable process. Each transfer can be run as a test migration, evaluated, and repeated with adjusted rules. Logs show what was migrated, what was rejected, and why—providing traceability for business teams and auditors. Business teams validate their data in the test system before the transition becomes binding in production. By the time of cutover, everyone involved knows what to expect.