How to migrate on-premise data from ERP to Cloud?

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- Payal Nambiar

Being an entrepreneur, it is really disheartening to encounter errors or data loss with providing your services to multiple users nationally or internationally with multiple servers and IP addresses accessing your on-premise server. Hence, sometimes the server crashes and data get lost. So, to avoid such a situation you must have your data over the cloud environment, which will handle all the load and you will be relieved from stressing situations of data losses.

Therefore, to migrated data from an onpremise server to a cloud server you would require to follow the given series of well-defined steps to perform a seamless integration with the server and to transfer data with implementing security.

• Preparation

The initiation phase requires a deep inspection of your on-premise ERP data before beginning the migration process. Here’s what you would need to check:

• Audit Existing Data: Audit your ERP data properly to check its quality, structure, and consistency. Also, wherever required- identify and address any data issues, inconsistencies, or redundancies.

• Data Mapping: To ease your transfer process and to avoid compatibility issues you would need to create a structured mapping document that will mention how your existing data will be mapped to the cloud environment.

• Backup Data: Most important is to take a full backup of your ERP data to avoid data loss during the migration process. Also, ensure to store this backup in a secured location, separate from your onpremise server.