Data migration consultant for UK SMEs

Move systems without dragging bad data into the new one.

Quick answer

Move systems without dragging bad data into the new one. helps UK SMEs understand what Digital Adaption does, where it fits, and how the process works from first conversation to practical data management, migration, automation or reporting work.

Digital Adaption helps SMEs prepare, map, cleanse, validate, and reconcile data before ERP, CRM, finance, reporting, or workflow migrations go live.

Migration support that starts before the import file

Most migration problems are discovered too late because the work starts with a spreadsheet export. The useful work starts with decisions: what moves, what is archived, what is corrected, and how success will be proven.

Readiness assessment

Review source systems, data owners, critical entities, reporting dependencies, known defects, and migration constraints before the project commits to a cutover date.

Source-to-target mapping

Define how fields, statuses, codes, dates, reference tables, and business rules translate into the target ERP, CRM, finance, or reporting system.

Validation and reconciliation

Build checks for record counts, balances, status totals, missing values, duplicates, and business-critical reports before and after go-live.

What gets delivered

Clear migration artefacts your internal team, vendor, or implementation partner can actually use.

Migration backlog

  • Data defects ranked by risk.
  • Owners and decisions needed.
  • Cleanup actions before load testing.

Mapping pack

  • Source-to-target field mapping.
  • Transformation and defaulting rules.
  • Exception handling and sign-off notes.

Cutover controls

  • Load sequence and freeze points.
  • Reconciliation checklist.
  • Fallback and issue triage route.

The migration flow

A practical path from messy source data to signed-off target data.

1

Scope

Entities, sources, constraints, dates, and owners.

2

Assess

Data quality, duplicates, inactive records, and reporting dependencies.

3

Map

Fields, transformations, business rules, and target validation.

4

Test

Trial loads, issue logs, reconciliation, and stakeholder sign-off.

5

Cut over

Controlled load, checks, handover, and post-go-live cleanup.

Methodology

Migration readiness is checked against a practical evidence set: source-system exports, target-system field requirements, finance or operational control totals, exception logs, sample records, user-owned definitions, and the reports that must still reconcile after go-live.

Data migration guides

Start here if you are preparing for ERP, CRM, finance-system or reporting migration work.

ERP data migration checklist

The source-system, mapping, cleansing, validation and reconciliation checklist finance and operations teams need before cutover.

Migration review and templates

Use these if you need a concrete next step before speaking to an ERP, CRM or finance-system vendor.

ERP migration checklist

A practical checklist for scope, ownership, cleansing, validation and sign-off before ERP cutover.

Planning a migration or system change?

Start with the data. I can help identify what needs cleaning, mapping, validating, and controlling before the project gets expensive.

Book a migration review