In-House Development

With in-house development costs are often under-estimated. Invariably the initial staff requirement projections prove to be inadequate. It's often considered that just a couple of programmers would be sufficient, however even a small data migration will usually require a technical team including:

Project Manager
Data Analyst
Programmers
Testers

Quite often these people are recruited on expensive short-term contracts, incurring recruitment and possibly training costs. Add to this the associated cost of the desk space, holiday pay, sick pay and all the other costs of employing people and you will find the in-house approach can be a high cost solution.

There are, of course, advantages of using the in-house development approach. It may be possible to utilize existing staff members who are likely to be familiar with your company's data. They can tailor a solution that can be modified for performance or other specific requirements.

However, using existing IT to migrate data is not always the best use of its time. Migrating data is a once-only problem. There are likely to be many other, on-going, competing projects. It is better for your staff to be working on long-term concerns than on one-off problems that offer no reuse.

Existing staff will almost certainly implement a solution using their current skills, regardless of whether that is the most efficient way to migrate data.

Data migration will be on the critical path of the project. Using inexperienced staff to cut code manually is slow and prone to errors. They are likely to run into typical problems resulting in project overruns and possible risk of failure.

Instasap know the common pitfalls and, more importantly, how to avoid them. Our staff is experienced data migration consultants armed with powerful ETL software.

We do not have to write software from scratch. Using the BW*naturalextract software we can eliminate the need to laboriously develop and debug code that has a limited lifetime. Our BW*naturalextract software automatically writes optimized ABAP/Oracle code using tested, proven algorithms tailored to your needs.

Saving you time, money and ensuring accuracy.