CHS
Critical System Migration
Summary
Citizens' rapid growth required a more capable student information platform. By taking full ownership of the data migration—identifying key records, extracting them from the legacy system, and engineering the transfer—ITAT enabled Citizens to adopt the new SIS without disruption. Citizens was able to stay focused on expanding its academic programs while the technical transition happened seamlessly in the background.
The Problem
Citizens was experiencing rapid growth, adding additional schools, Español programs, African-American studies and more. During this expansion, Citizens recognized the current SIS (Student Information System) service they were using was not meeting all their needs, therefore a new service provider needed to be engaged. Moving from one SaaS provider to another can be a daunting task. While both providers were committed to providing quality software solutions, neither were particularly setup to assist with migrations.
Working closely with the subject matter experts at CHS to identify the data elements that needed to be moved over, ITAT was able to use exported data from the prior SaaS provider to generate the data migration scripts. This allowed CHS to stay focused on the implementation of the new SaaS services while ITAT took care of the details behind the scenes.
The Solution
The Technical Environment
The current provider was able to provide MYSQL scripts to allow for the re-creation of the data on our servers. From there we were able to map the data according to the new system layout and generate the export files that could be imported into the new provider’s system.