Practical Data Migration, 3rd Edition

A5 DATA MAPPING

For the mapping example, you are looking to populate a target system equipment register as described in Table A5.1 within an ERP application.

Table A5.1 Target system equipment table layout

You can see the fields that need to be populated (‘mandatory’) from a target system viewpoint. That, however, is only the technical view of mandatory. Although the target system might allow you to create records with some fields unpopulated, your business processes mandate the completion of many other fields. You would also like to provide ...