Data Migration Services That Preserve Your History

A migration fails quietly. Records land in the wrong field, totals stop matching, and the business finds out weeks later. Forbytes maps your data first, validates it at every stage, and moves it with a rollback point in place before the first record leaves the old system.

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When You Need Data Migration

  • Your legacy system is unsupported, but the data inside it still runs the business
  • Reports pulled from the old and new systems return different numbers
  • Historical data is trapped in a tool nobody has permissions for anymore
  • A platform replacement is scheduled and nobody owns the data side of it
  • On-premises hardware costs more each year than the cloud alternative
  • A previous migration attempt left duplicates, gaps, or fields nobody can explain

Results You Can Achieve with Data Migration Services

Data Migration Benefit  Business Impact
Full data audit and mapping You know what exists, what is duplicated, and what is safe to drop
Validated migration Record counts and totals match on both sides before you switch
Preserved historical data Year-over-year reporting survives the move
Cloud or warehouse target Storage scales with volume instead of hardware purchases
Cleaned and deduplicated data The new system starts without inherited data quality problems
Documented rollback plan A failed step reverses instead of turning into an outage

Real Client Results

Our Data Migration Process

Data Audit & Source Mapping

Inventorying every source, its volume, its owner, and the quality problems already inside it.
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Migration Plan & Rollback Design

Sequencing the move, setting the cutover window, and defining the rollback point for each stage.
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Validation & Reconciliation

Comparing record counts, totals, and samples across both systems until the numbers agree.
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Target Design & Mapping Rules

Defining the target structure, field-level mapping, transformation rules, and what gets archived.
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Trial Migration

Running the full migration on a copy, measuring duration, and fixing what the dry run exposes.
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Cutover & Post-Migration Support

Switching over, monitoring the first production days, and decommissioning the old system.

Every Migration Has a Way Back

The rollback point gets defined before the first record moves, and it stays available through every stage.
Old and new systems run in parallel until counts, totals, and sample records match on both sides. Nobody switches on a promise.
The cutover window is picked around your low season and your daily traffic pattern, and the plan names the person who decides to proceed or stop.

What Are You Moving, and What Cannot Break?

Tell us the source system, the target, and the reports your business cannot lose. We’ll come back with a mapping approach, the risks we see, and a realistic cutover window.

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What Our Clients Say

Nazar Lytvynenko

Nazar Lytvynenko

Group Manager, Guesty

Forbytes’ engineers and team leads worked as part of our RnD group and were directly managed by our company directors. They were both proactive and adaptable, qualities that perfectly match our needs in our fast-growing and constantly evolving environment.

Fredrik Nelson

Fredrik Nelson

CIO at AB Stenströms Skjortfabrik  

Forbytes created an app that allowed users to quickly measure themselves to be fitted for custom shirts. As a result, we could increase our speed, quality, and shirt output per week. Forbytes was dedicated to delivering a solution that accurately addressed our needs.  

Richard Lowe

Richard Lowe

CEO at The African Touch

Our e-commerce site saw online inquiries and orders rise after working with Forbytes. The team used top-notch expertise to inform their suggestions and improvements. Constant communication, quick responses, and prompt delivery made for a smooth and enjoyable collaboration.

FAQ

What do data migration services include?

A migration project covers the full move: auditing and profiling the source data, designing the target structure, writing field-level mapping and transformation rules, cleaning and deduplicating, running trial migrations, validating the results against the source, executing the cutover, and supporting the first production weeks. We handle database, application, cloud, and full infrastructure migrations, including moves from on-premises systems to Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

How is data migration different from your data integration services?

Migration is a one-time move with an end date: data leaves one system and lands in another, and the old system gets retired.

Data integration is permanent plumbing: pipelines that keep running so several systems stay in sync. Projects often need both, since data usually arrives in a new platform that then has to exchange information with everything else. We scope them separately so you can see what each one costs.

How much downtime should we expect?

For most projects, minutes rather than hours. The bulk of the data moves while the old system stays live, then a final delta sync runs inside the cutover window. Zero-downtime migrations are possible where the source system supports change data capture, though they cost more and add complexity, so we recommend them only when the business genuinely cannot pause.

What happens if something goes wrong mid-migration?

Each stage has a defined rollback point, and the trial migration is where most problems surface, which is exactly why it exists. If validation fails after the cutover, the old system is still intact and reachable until we agree it can be decommissioned. Decommissioning is a separate decision made after the new system runs clean, never on cutover day.

Can you migrate data if the old system has no documentation?

Yes, and this is common with systems that outlived the people who built them. We profile the data directly to reconstruct the actual structure, spot the fields that are used in ways the schema does not suggest, and confirm the rules with the people who work in the system daily. It adds time to the audit stage, and we scope that stage separately so the estimate does not rest on guesswork.

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    Forbytes created an app that allowed users to quickly measure themselves to be fitted for custom shirts. As a result, we could increase our speed, quality, and shirt output per week. Forbytes was dedicated to delivering a solution that accurately addressed our needs.  

    Forbytes’ engineers and team leads worked as part of our RnD group and were directly managed by our company directors. They were both proactive and adaptable, qualities that perfectly match our needs in our fast-growing and constantly evolving environment.

    Forbytes has a strong process-oriented way of leading the company, with good respect for themselves and their managers. They made a choice not to become too big but build slowly on more qualified people, which is paying off.

    Our e-commerce site saw online inquiries and orders rise after working with Forbytes. The team used top-notch expertise to inform their suggestions and improvements. Constant communication, quick responses, and prompt delivery made for a smooth and enjoyable collaboration.

    The Forbytes team was very professional and demonstrated a great understanding of the business aspects. All tasks were completed above expectations. Their experts were always available, and we never needed to wait for a response or a suggested solution.