Migration Services Offerings

The SMPO's migration service offerings have a flexible, modular structure which can be customized to meet a client's specific requirements. Our migration services offerings include:

Migration Assessment
Helps identify the migration issues unique to a specific environment. A migration assessment estimates the resources, time and cost needed for a migration project.

Migration Planning Service
A migration specialist leads a joint client / IBM team that develops a migration plan detailing the tasks, target dates and people assignments.

Conversion Tools Services
For products with large amounts of operational data, conversion tools may be used to automate the translation from one format to another, thereby reducing the time and errors involved in the conversion.

Migration Consulting Services
A migration specialists can provide guidance throughout the migration project. Typically, consulting services are provided during the technical analysis, testing and cut over phases of the project. Services can be provided on-site, via phone or remote dial-up.

Migration Implementation Services
Assistance is provided in the actual implementation of migration services includes:

• Product installation and customization
• Implementation of new function
• Exit design and/or coding
• Testing, test planning and validation
• Operations skills transfer
• Project management