Conversion Steps

In general data conversion effort in the cloud is divided into the following steps:

  • Prepare for conversion

  • Create conversion data files

  • Upload conversion data files to the cloud

  • Process conversion data files

  • Process converted data in cloud application

  • Approve converted data for production mode

Note:

It is important to note that the conversion process is a highly iterative process. All the steps above are likely to be done (completely or partially) multiple times during the conversion process.

For example, customer typically start with a small set of data to convert, they fix issues discovered with that data and then re-create new data files and proceed to convert them. This can happen many times, each time with either a different data sample or bigger and bigger data conversion sets until all the required data has gone through the conversion process.