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Data loss in cutover
Mid-migration crashes leaving partial state and orphaned records.
Typical Severityparallel-running -
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Schema drift mid-build
Source system changes after mapping is locked, breaking ETL.
Typical Severityfrozen-schema gate -
03
Business downtime
Cutover takes longer than scheduled, blocking revenue ops.
Typical Severitypre-staged delta sync -
04
Compliance breach
PHI / PII migrated without proper encryption or audit trail.
Typical SeverityNPHIES audit · Shield -
05
User adoption stall
Familiar fields renamed, workflows broken — staff revert to spreadsheets.
Typical Severityshadow training + UX parity
From legacy CRM to Salesforce, without losing a record.
Schema mapping, data cleansing, parallel-running, and a fixed cutover plan — we migrate from SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Dynamics, and legacy Salesforce orgs without breaking your business.
Where migrations actually go wrong.
Five risk vectors that derail most CRM/ERP cutovers — and how we mitigate each before sprint one.
Clean data is half the migration.
A live scorecard of completeness, uniqueness, validity and timeliness — measured per source table, before and after we touch it.
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Completeness
99.2%
was 64% +35.2
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Uniqueness
100%
was 71% +29.0
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Validity
99.7%
was 82% +17.7
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Timeliness
98.4%
was 58% +40.4
Go-live, hour by hour.
A 48-hour cutover schedule executed to the minute — coordinated across data, ops, and clinical teams.
Friday 22:00 → Monday 06:00
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T−24h Thu 22:00OPS 2h
Final delta extract from source systems
Lock writes upstream; capture last-mile changes from SAP/Oracle since last sync.
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T−12h Fri 10:00DATA 4h
Schema validation & freeze gate
Rerun all DQ rules; sign-off from data steward and product owner.
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T−0h Fri 22:00CUTOVER 12h
Bulk load to Salesforce production
44k+ rows loaded via Bulk API 2.0 with checkpointing; Apex triggers temporarily disabled.
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T+12h Sat 10:00QA 6h
Reconciliation & smoke test
Row-count match, checksum verification, sample queries, end-to-end happy path on UAT.
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T+24h Sat 22:00OPS 2h
DNS switch & user notification
Email + SSO redirect; legacy CRM made read-only; staff guided to new login.
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T+48h Mon 06:00HYPERCARE 30 days
Hypercare begins
On-call Anchor engineer, daily reconciliation runs, and bug-fix SLA at 2 hours.
Every record. Counted. Twice.
Post-migration sign-off pack — row counts, checksums, sample-record audits, and a clean auditor signature.
Generated Mon 06:14 · 48h post-cutover
Questions, answered.
The things teams ask us most when scoping a Salesforce implementation.