System consolidations and Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activities foster the need to elevate approaches and technology to a strategic level. Valiance’s large-scale migration experience may be leveraged to efficiently create a Migration Center of Excellence (COE) with the management, staff, communications, technology and processes to execute multiple system-level migrations in an efficient and cost effective manner. Valiance approach is comprehensive and covers the following evolution: (the list specified below is only at high-level and does not cover all activities/deliverables that Valiance may perform on an engagement)
Enable Program Management
- Obtain senior management commitment (as with any strategic initiative, senior management commitment is required for the success of the COE)
- Identify management roles and responsibilities ( corporate management, IT & related business organization
- Clearly define objective for COE
- Define management reporting & communications structure
Planning
- Create COE staffing plan
- Define communications plan
- Issue management & escalation
- System-level progress
- Dependencies
- Is the destination system available?
- Scheduled downtime
- Is there a scheduling conflict with the business?
- Refine high-level scope
- Source systems, business units and business unit representatives
- End-state architecture definition
- Which systems (technologies) have been identified for the long term?
- Which systems are going to get consolidated and to where?
- Which systems will be decommissioned after the migration effort?
- Prioritization
- High-level schedule for the overall project as well as for individual migration efforts
Migration Software
- Define high-level migration requirements
- Identify migration risks
Identify a set of tools that meet the migration requirements
- Proof of Concept for shortlisted tools and tool selection
- Initiate system-level scoping
Define System-level Process
- Define scope for source data/content
- Identify initial data cleansing requirements
- Define procedures for QA
- Migration testing, validation, documentation requirements and QA
- Conduct Initial/first-round migrations
- Cutover migrations
- Production support
Create System-level team(s)
- Migration lead
- Business owner
- Application subject matter expert(s) (Analysts)
- Support
- Data cleansing & enrichment
- Technical team
- Tool configuration and execution
- Testing/QA/Validation
System-Level Migrations
Scale for operational efficiency
- Bring on staff with the requisite application knowledge and train on migration methodology/technology
Continual improvement
- Refine program measurement, metrics collection & reporting
- Strategic testing
- User testing
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