Custom ETL or AI? Choosing the Right Strategy for Legacy Data Migration

Suppose you inherit a storage unit. From a friend you hardly know.

You find boxes everywhere. None of them are labeled. They could be either a treasure or trash.

You've got two options to find out. Go through every box yourself. The process is slow, but that way you won't miss anything. Or you can call an estate company to clear it out fast. This is a quick process, but they might throw away your grandma's photo with the junk while cleaning out the storage unit.

Now, that's what happens with data migration, too. Except the boxes are legacy old databases - the ones nobody's touched in years, sitting on some outdated server, month after month, nobody remembers setting up.

And the scary part? Well, most data migrations don't fail because of poor planning. They fail because nobody knows what's inside those legacy databases created years ago. In fact, studies...

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