Solutions: Data Migration

Legacy systems often provide only one form of access to the data behind them--a web interface. Migrating that data into a more flexible system often involves costly human resources and can be error-prone. Data should be extracted and migrated from legacy systems without human intervention to minimize these risks.

Using screen-scraper, automated data collection allows you to migrate information from legacy systems. Data extracted from the legacy system will be consistent and can be directly inserted into other systems, avoiding the possibility of errors introduced from mistyping.

Examples of using screen-scraper for data migration include:

• Copying data from legacy mainframe applications
• Moving data from one application to another when upgrading
• Capturing web pages from an out-sourced system that will be run in-house