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How Migration Projects Go Wrong - Information

How Migration Projects Go Wrong - Data or Data Values

How Migration Projects Go Wrong - Data Corruption

Migration Risks

Liability of Data Migration Projects

Computer projects that involve migrating data from one system (source) to another (target) are notoriously high risk. In many instances the failures are obvious where systems simply failing to work at all. Other failures are however, less obvious. There are a number of "ticking Time Bombs" where the failure is in the form of the data being corrupted as part of the process, but where the corruption is yet to be noticed. The longer these errors go unnoticed, the more severe the consequences on the operations concerned. The net effect of such failures very much depends on the organisation, department and operations concerned. For commercial organisation the impact will be noticed in the profits, where as such failures with NHS patient data might have far more serious or even fatal implications.