GSE UK Conference 2007

"Virtually Yourz"

Abstract:

Data integration and consolidation requirements, growing data mobility demands, clumsy legacy data manipulation, limited legacy database connectivity, and slow legacy database performance-let alone high maintenance cost and dwindling resources. These are just a few reasons companies migrate to take advantage of the many features and added functionality available in DB2. Whatever the reason for your data migration project-the challenges and risks your organization faces are the same: loss of sensitive data, reduction in data accuracy and integrity, costly system and application downtime, and unreliable software functionality after migration. This lecture will present a selected blue chip analysts take on migration options, address the key challenges facing such mission-critical data migration, and show a best practice approach to data migration that enables a fully-structured and automated migration-including partial or incremental migration-while maximizing the target data quality.

Tim Fearns is the Solutions Delivery manager for the UK arm of BluePhoenix Solutions. He has over fifteen years experience in the design, planning, project management and delivery of business transformation in large, complex IT systems, in both public and blue-chip private enterprises. Tim has extensive experience in all aspects of the transformation of legacy IT systems to modern, Open Systems environments. His original background was data analysis and database administration on IDMS mainframe systems, and with the demise of non-relational database technology, his speciality has been the transformation of these systems to relational platforms such as DB2, Oracle and SQL Server. Most recently, he has been engaged as the Solution Designer and Programme Manager for a multi-terabyte data migration from 44 operational legacy databases to a corporate data warehouse, for the UK Department of Works and Pensions.

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