Data Migration
Customers may not have noticed a break in service, but they definitely noticed the much-improved system responsiveness.
The Challenge
A large financial institution, based in South Africa but operating in more than 16 countries, requested Digiata’s assistance to help replace their existing banking platform with a new core banking system, to integrate and standardise their systems across the African continent. The client also required a data reconciliation solution to guarantee the accuracy, integrity, consistency, validity and completeness of the migrated data.
The Solution
Digiata created a hybrid data-migration solution that integrated the data dictionary, extraction, cleansing, transformation and loading processes into one efficient operation. The new solution was able to cater for country-specific requirements and is flexible enough to handle both a “big bang” or gradual, phased migration approach.
Technology Used
• IBM InfoSphere DataStage 8.5
• Oracle 11g
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• LINX
• Stadium
The results
A successful data migration across 10 African countries, with minimal disruption to business operations. Agility and responsiveness to customers’ local requirements was increased, while overall project overheads were reduced.
