Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 16 · HCM Data Loader and Data Migration
The loading toolset
Lesson 154 of 175 · 2 min
Three tools, and the choice is simpler than it looks. HCM Data Loader — file-based, high volume, covering essentially every business object; the workhorse for migration and bulk change. HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader — a spreadsheet front end over the same engine, suiting business users and smaller ongoing loads. And the workforce structures spreadsheets you already met in Module 6. Choosing comes down to volume, frequency, and who runs it. Migration is the Data Loader; ongoing business-user loads are the spreadsheet; one-off structure creation can be either. That third criterion is the one people forget — a tool an HR administrator can run without you is worth more after go-live than a tool that is slightly faster. And here is what to carry out of this lesson. All three share one pattern: file, staging, validation, load, results. Understand that pipeline and you can debug any of them — because when…
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In this module: Module 16 · HCM Data Loader and Data Migration
- 1Migration strategy: what to bringFree preview
- 2The loading toolset
- 3File structure and business objects
- 4Your first load
- 5The workforce structures load sequenceFree preview
- 6Loading workers
- 7Spreadsheet Data Loader
- 8Diagnosing failures
- 9Reconciliation and cutover
- 10What breaks
- 11Lab: migrate the workforce and reconcile it