Trusted Data Migration and Data Quality Services by Experts
Discover how we can tailor these services to support your business
Pier Solutions provide expertise and consultancy in the following sectors:
Pier Solutions Ltd in a Nutshell
Pier Solutions Ltd offers consultancy services to organisations who seek to move business data between systems in a timely and efficient manner, with integrity and security.
We can plan and undertake a full analysis and implementation of your data migration or data take-on using our established process and technical framework or, if you prefer, we can provide analysis, development or quality assurance expertise within your ongoing project.
Experienced professionals
Our consultants have many years of data migration experience working with large and small enterprises to migrate and take on their business critical data.
Data take-ons and migrations vary greatly, so we plan for flexibility whilst applying a solid set of principles to maintain the integrity and reliability of the approach.
Flexible and iterative approach
Focussed on your business and technical needs
We are happy to provide all or part of the support necessary for your data transfer project, engaging with all of the necessary stakeholders to discover and understand the requirements.
Highly configurable toolset
Our technical framework is platform independent and allows a completely flexible approach for integrating reporting, transformation and load scripts. With some limited scripting knowledge, project stakeholders can be quickly trained to build parts of the transform logic.
Our Expertise
Data migration or take-on from third party clients is highly dependent on the quality of the source data. Our process will seek to obtain and analyse sample datasets in advance of the live migration, so that the qualities can be understood and managed.
Data Profiling
Data Analysis
Where necessary we will help analyse and define your source and target data sets, including consideration of integrity constraints that exist in the datastores and that are imposed or assumed by integrated systems.
Stakeholder Engagement
Successful data transfer demands the engagement of many different stakeholders, who will differ dependant on the nature of the data and context of the project. Our approach aims to ensure that all business and technical perspectives are considered.
Iterative Stepwise Development
We decompose the project into manageable steps that incrementally analyse and build the necessary automation to traceably transfer your data assets between systems.
Reconciliation and Reporting
We build and integrate new bespoke reports into the framework but will work with stakeholders to also employ their own trusted reports during the data transfer process.
Bespoke Development
Our in-house toolset allows us to quickly and easily build and integrate processes to ingest, validate, transform, load and reconcile data.
Our Principles and Process
Our consistently high standards are built on a solid foundation of principles and process
DSDM Principles
The varied nature of data management businesses, systems designs and stakeholder skills and experience means that data migration projects are of a rich and varied nature, and so demand flexible solutions. However, to create solutions flexibly with integrity and reliability the process needs to be organised and controlled. To achieve the necessary blend of flexibility and control, we hold to the eight principles of The Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM):
Focus on the business need
Deliver on time
Collaborate
Never compromise on quality
Build incrementally
Develop iteratively
Communicate continuously and clearly
Demonstrate control
Process Framework
Our process comprises three overlapping workstreams, which aim to understand and agree the business requirements, define and build the necessary data transfer logic and provide visibility and control of the processing.