Data Migration
Move your data, applications, and platforms safely — planned around your trading hours and checked at every stage.
Move Everything That Matters, Safely
Whether you’re switching hosting providers, upgrading legacy systems, or consolidating platforms after an acquisition, migration is one of the highest-risk projects a business can undertake. Get it wrong and you lose data, disrupt operations, or end up running two systems indefinitely.
We plan, execute, and validate every migration end to end — databases, applications, email, files, and infrastructure. We account for the records, reconnect the integrations and get every user back up and running.
What We Migrate
SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL — on-premises to cloud, between providers, or major version upgrades.
Legacy system re-platforming, hosting provider moves, and containerisation of monolithic applications.
Mailbox migrations, SharePoint moves, and full Microsoft 365 tenant transfers.
File servers to cloud storage, archive transfers, and permission mapping across environments.
Checking Every Record and Relationship
Database migrations carry the most risk — a single missed foreign key or truncated field can cascade through an entire application. We treat every migration as a precision engineering exercise.
We handle schema conversion between platforms (SQL Server to PostgreSQL, MySQL to cloud-native), data validation at every stage, and parallel running periods so you can verify everything before the cutover.
For large datasets we use incremental sync strategies that keep both systems current until you’re ready to switch, which keeps the downtime at the switch short.
Schema Conversion
Translate stored procedures, views, and data types between database engines.
Row-Level Validation
Automated checksums and record counts to check the data has arrived intact.
Incremental Sync
Keep source and target in lockstep until cutover day, minimising downtime.
Infrastructure Moves
Migrate between hosting providers, data centres, or on-premises to cloud.
Containerisation
Package legacy applications into containers for portable, scalable deployment.
API Rewiring
Reconnect integrations, webhooks, and third-party services to the new environment.
Re-Platform Without the Chaos
Moving an application isn’t just copying files to a new server. It’s remapping environment variables, updating connection strings, testing every integration, and making sure the whole system behaves as it did before in its new home.
We handle everything from straightforward hosting moves to full re-platforming of legacy systems — breaking monoliths into services, containerising applications for cloud deployment, and reconnecting every API and webhook along the way.
Every migration includes a detailed rollback plan. If something unexpected surfaces during cutover, we can fall back to the old system.
Microsoft 365, SharePoint & Beyond
Email and file migrations affect every person in the organisation. A botched mailbox move means lost emails, broken calendar entries, and a support desk buried in tickets.
We plan tenant-to-tenant migrations, on-premises Exchange to Microsoft 365 moves, and large-scale SharePoint transfers with proper permission mapping. Users keep their folder structures, shared mailboxes work from day one, and archived mail comes across intact.
For file storage, we handle network drive to OneDrive or SharePoint migrations, preserving folder hierarchies and access permissions. We run parallel access periods so teams can transition at their own pace.
Typical Migration Scope
Our Migration Process
A proven approach refined over hundreds of migration projects.
Discovery
Audit every system, dataset, and dependency to map the full scope.
Plan
Detailed migration plan with timelines, rollback steps, and success criteria.
Execute
Staged migration with validation checkpoints at every step.
Verify
Post-migration testing, monitoring, and parallel running until sign-off.
Featured Migration Project
American Express — Nationwide IT Migration
We developed bespoke migration software with a full audit trail for American Express Business Travel, migrating 1,800 computers across 60+ UK locations in just 6 weeks.
Read the American Express storyRelated Services
Database Solutions
Custom databases, SQL Server management, reporting dashboards, and data integration.
See how we do itHosting & IT
Managed cloud hosting, infrastructure, and IT support for your migrated systems.
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Bespoke migration tools, audit systems, and applications built around your specific requirements.
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Questions about migration
What can you migrate?
Databases (SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL), applications and platforms, email and Microsoft 365, and file storage: between hosting providers, to the cloud, or across major version upgrades.
How do you check the data has arrived intact?
We validate with record counts and checksums at each stage, run the old and new systems side by side before the cutover where the data allows, and keep a rollback plan for the switch.
Will the business have to stop while you migrate?
We plan the cutover around your trading hours. For large databases we keep both systems in step until the switch, which keeps the downtime short. How long it takes depends on the data and the systems involved.
Do you migrate websites and applications as well as databases?
Yes: hosting moves, re-platforming of older applications, and reconnecting the integrations, webhooks and connection settings that depend on them.
Where are you based, and who do you work with?
We are based in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, and work with businesses across the UK and abroad. The same team designs, builds and looks after the work.
How do we start?
With a free conversation about what you have, what has to move and when. We then propose the scope, timeline and price.