Data Migration · Durham
Data Migration in Durham
Moving a Durham organisation's data from an old system into a new one. Migration is where system replacements fail, and almost always for the same reason: the old data is messier than anyone believed, and nobody found out until the week the new system was meant to go live.
Why this comes up
The problem
A new system is being implemented and the migration is a line on the plan with no detail. Nobody has looked at the old data closely enough to know what state it is in.
What you get
What we deliver
- Source data profiled early, so the real state is known while there is time to act
- Mapping documented field by field, including what has no destination
- Cleansing and deduplication decisions made explicitly rather than by whoever runs the script
- Trial migrations run repeatedly, since the first one is never right
- Reconciliation proving what moved — counts and values matched, not assumed
- A rollback plan, because cutover is the point of no return without one
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what data migration would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Python
- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Azure Data Factory
- dbt
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Professional services
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Data Migration in Durham — common questions
- Why do migrations go wrong so often?
- Because data quality is discovered late. Duplicate customers, dates in three formats, notes fields holding structured information — none of it is visible from a schema. Profiling the actual data early is the single highest-value step in the whole project.
- Should we migrate everything?
- Usually not. Old records nobody has opened in five years cost effort to map and clean, and often carry data protection obligations. Archiving rather than migrating is frequently the better answer, provided the archive stays accessible.
- How many trial runs are needed?
- More than one, always. The first reveals problems, the second reveals the problems your fixes introduced, and the last should be a rehearsal that runs clean against a full copy — timed, so cutover duration is known rather than hoped for.
- How do we prove the migration worked?
- Reconciliation before anyone signs off: record counts, financial totals and sampled records compared between systems. Without it, discrepancies surface weeks later when the old system has been decommissioned and the evidence is gone.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Data Migration in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise