Wednesday 24th May, Central London

• Lecture by John Morris - Director of iergo Ltd, a software and information management consultancy
• Question and Answer session: your chance to pitch your queries to the expert
• Refreshments and networking opportunities
• Opportunity to get your copy of John's new book 'Practical Data Migration'

The Talk

Traditionally the Cinderella aspect of system building, data migration is about getting the right data, of the right quality, into the right place, at the right time. It is an absolute necessity for realising the maximum return on investment. 

In today's complex work place with a plethora of possible data sources and increasingly feature rich software to support, the necessity of performing data migration competently is becoming more apparent. 

Every week it seems, there is another story in the press of a delayed or spoiled implementation caused by "data issues". And everyone in the industry knows that what is reported is the tip of an iceberg.

There is an emerging market for ETL (extract, transform and load) tools to assist with the physical activity; but methodology for how to manage the process of getting the most appropriate data out of the business and into your new systems is lacking. Until now.

This talk introduced the concept of well formed and ill formed problem domains to illustrate the fundamental issue facing any data centric activity, but especially data migration. 

It then went on to show how, by taking an enterprise-centric approach, to get information often hidden in the enterprise, into your project. 

It also showed original tools and techniques as well as how to use existing, industry standard ones in the context of a data migration requirement.

The Speaker

John Morris is the founder-director of iergo Ltd a software and information management consultancy. He is a member of the Association for Project Management and has over twenty years experience in Information Technology.

Practical Data Migration presentation (385 kb)