Smart Migration Scoping with Voleer

To a certain extent, every data migration is a unique project requiring a custom solution. It’s important, however, to balance customization with efficiency. When you’re able to save time before and during a migration, that’s money in your pocket. Voleer assessments give you the tools to save time - and therefore money - on project scoping so you can put more into customer service and satisfaction.

Most experienced IT pros have developed their own processes for scoping migration projects. It’s important to have a way of assessing source and destination environments, identifying what will move and what will stay, and spotting any potential security or compliance issues. Accurate scoping also helps you anticipate the number of licenses you’ll need as well as estimate storage volume and the speed of the migration. If you’re scoping manually, you could be adding unnecessary costs to your project or even missing hidden risks.

Save time and money

Automated assessments from Voleer not only save time – and time is money in this business – they cut down on risks that could impact the project outcome. When you can assure a smooth project with no surprises, customers are happier. Happy customers are long-term customers, and a source of good referrals. So let’s take a look at ways you can use assessments to save time and money on your migration projects:

• Stop doing it old school – It can take a full half of a workday to manually gather all the usage data across multiple applications for a thorough assessment of your customer’s Source environment. Sure, you could assign that task to your newbies, but that’s time they could be spending learning more technical aspects of the business and contributing to the bottom line. With automated Voleer assessments, the results are available in minutes, saving time that can be devoted to other important tasks.

• Robots don’t lie – Some tasks are simply better suited for automation. Even the very best manual process can be prone to error. Common problems that crop up include missed datasets, input mistakes, and inconsistent data handling. You may not discover problems with your manual report until after the migration project is completed, at which point you may be facing an unnecessary and time-consuming cleanup project. Automated reports help you avoid human-error caused problems that can bite later on.

• Don’t stop at the end – Pre-migration assessments have an obvious value for planning migrations. Many IT pros are also using assessments post-migration to reduce risk and avoid long-term problems. A post-migration report will highlight the overall success of the project. It can also help identify the location of any missing data if the migrated environment was prone to sprawl.

While Voleer recommends assessments immediately post-migration, it’s also a good idea to set up periodic reports with ongoing customers to quickly identify and rectify issues that surface. The fact is that some problems your assessments find could be completely unrelated to the migration. The only way to truly know is by conducting consistent pre- and post-reports. This puts you in the position to be the one with the solution – regardless of whether the issue is migration-related or not.

Put the value back into your business

Voleer automated assessments help you decrease project costs, and that’s money you can put back into our business, pass on to customers, or use to maintain a competitive edge. Here are some of the ways you can save:

• Accurate scoping – Without accurate assessments, you can easily miss things in your project estimate. This could mean you have to eat some of those costs. At the very least, it’s always harder to come back to a customer and ask for more money once they’ve signed off on your proposal.

• Internal efficiency – When your team has Voleer’s consistent, accurate automations, they can have assessments in-hand in minutes rather than having to assemble data manually for hours. Your employees are probably eager to add value in more interesting ways.

• Reduced risk – Think of Voleer assessments as migration project insurance. The more you understand about your customer’s environment, the more accurate you can be with the timing and complexities of the migration. The outcome: Higher customer satisfaction and less issues that need to be fixed on the back end.

• Security and compliance – While data migrations seem routine for many IT pros – and they can be downright easy with BitTitan MigrationWiz – they’re still high-stakes projects for companies concerned about data integrity, security, and compliance. Voleer assessments help you avoid costly problems by identifying issues that can be mitigated before the migration starts.

The biggest cost you want to avoid is loss of customer trust. The more you know, the more you’re able to execute a smooth migration that will help you build long-term customer relationships.

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