Summary

  • Customer: Software developer
  • Country: United States
  • Product Used: Ispirer Toolkit License
  • Source Technology: IBM DB2 iSeries
  • Target Technology: Microsoft SQL Server

Customer

A full-services IT firm based in United States dedicated to software and application development, reengineering and maintenance. The company provides web services, including website design, web hosting and SEO. They also take care about CRM system implementation, its upgrade and management.

Challenge

The customer approached Ispirer Systems in 2015 with the challenge to transfer tables and data from IBM DB2 iSeries to SQL Server. The number of tables to be migrated was more than 5 thousand, which contained more than 8 hundred GB of data.

Solution

Ispirer Toolkit is a great choice for automated database migration. This comprehensive solution is accompanied by expert support of Ispirer team who has substantial experience in database migration. After analyzing custom requirements to the migration results, our Toolkit Developers changed several default conversion rules for the purpose of full automation of DB2 iSeries to SQL Server conversion process.

The customized Ispirer Toolkit was delivered to the client ready to launch and the conversion itself was performed entirely on the client side. Some project-related issues were promptly resolved during WebEx conferences with Ispirer migration experts presence.

Results & Advantages

The solution delivered by Ispirer team turned out to be convenient, since Ispirer SQLWays Wizard is easy to handle. Both data and table conversion processes went smoothly. The whole migration project was successfully accomplished in about a month.