Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 9 · Migration strategy and reconciliation
What to migrate, and what to leave behind
Lesson 87 of 177 · 2 min
Open items, balances and history are THREE different decisions with three different costs, and most projects migrate more than they need and cannot say why. OPEN ITEMS are not optional. Unpaid invoices, uncollected receivables, undepreciated assets, current employees. The business cannot operate on day one without them, so this is the only category with no decision in it. BALANCES are cheap and lossy. One opening journal per account brings the ledger to the right position with no detail behind it. It is almost always the right answer for closed periods, and the objection to it is always the same: somebody wants to drill. HISTORY is expensive in a way people underestimate. Not the load itself — the mapping, the cleansing, the reconciliation of every period, the decisions about data that no longer conforms to current rules. Three years of history is not three times one year; it is three times…
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In this module: Module 9 · Migration strategy and reconciliation
- 1What to migrate, and what to leave behind
- 2Balances versus transactions
- 3The cutover sequence
- 4Reconciliation: proving a migration landedFree preview
- 5Data cleansing, and who owns it
- 6Mapping legacy values to Fusion
- 7Trial loads and the rehearsal nobody schedules
- 8Sub-ledger and general ledger agreement
- 9Signing off: what "done" means
- 10What breaks: the migration that reconciled and was wrong
- 11Lab briefing · Plan and reconcile a migration