Devil in the data

Whatever the choice of transaction system, IBM’s Mark Pemberton warns:
“One of the hardest things to do in an MRO environment is actually to take the data from the old systems, convert it and put it into the new system.” Older systems typically have a lower level of functionality than the new systems, “but to use all this new functionality you need the data. So in a lot of cases you have to manually create it so that you can use the new functionality. It’s a big effort. IBM has tools, and we have experience over many projects to help make it easier, but there’s no getting away from the fact that to cleanse and create data, the only people who can do that are the business, and it’s a lot of work.”

- Source: Airline Fleet & Network Management