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Data Quality and Agentic AI platform that validates, reconciles, scores, monitors and remediates data from ingestion to BI and AI.

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Agentic AI-powered test and rule creation
Agents generate data quality rules, validation tests and SQL from prompts, with your approval.
Data quality score per dataset
Shows the current score, what changed since the last run and the failing records behind it.
Validation and observability inside the pipeline
Every load is compared with its source, transformations are tested against business logic, and freshness, volume and schema changes are monitored.
Reports that match the source
Dashboard figures are compared with the source data behind them before users see them.
Test data without real records
Synthetic data that mirrors production replaces sensitive records in test environments.
Quality gates for releases
Pipeline and report changes are tested before they go to production.
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Data Quality Monitor

Continuously profiles, validates and scores enterprise data, with Agentic AI that recommends rules and flags anomalies, so analytics and AI run on trusted data.

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AI-recommended DQ rules and scoring
Agents suggest completeness, validity and uniqueness rules, with scores down to the column.
Data profiling
Analyzes distributions, patterns and frequencies to surface outliers.
AI-based observability
Agents monitor pipelines end to end, detect anomalies and suggest fixes.
Data catalog
Organizes models and tables in one catalog, with AI-drafted descriptions.
Data lineage
Traces data from origin to destination through every transformation.
Data quality issue tracking
Assigns every failing record to an owner and tracks it to resolution.
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ETL Validator

Automates ETL/ELT testing, with Agentic AI that builds tests from mapping docs, confirming every record arrives complete, accurate and correctly transformed.

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AI-generated ETL tests
Turns mapping docs into checks for joins, transforms and edge cases.
Source-to-target validation
Matches loaded data to the source, down to record counts and required fields.
Transformation validation
Verifies business logic with SQL, Python or Scala.
Migration validation
Checks schema, row counts and integrity for cloud migrations.
Metadata change audit
Catches schema and metadata discrepancies before they break pipelines.
Root cause and adaptive tests
Pinpoints where data broke, and agents update tests when mappings change.
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BI Validator

Automates testing and governance for Power BI, Tableau and Oracle Analytics, with Agentic AI that builds tests from plain English and keeps reports accurate and reliable.

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AI-created BI tests
Describe a test scenario in plain English, and agents build it.
Visual-to-source comparison
Compares the data behind every visual to the source using auto-generated SQL.
Regression and upgrade checks
Pixel-level comparisons across environments, with AI summaries of what changed.
Measure logic checks
Converts BI measures and calculations to SQL to confirm KPI logic.
Performance and load testing
Simulates concurrent users and measures load and refresh times.
BI governance
Finds unused measures, duplicate reports and orphaned tables.
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Test Data Manager

Uses Agentic AI to detect and mask sensitive data and generate synthetic data that mirrors production, so teams can test without exposing real records.

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AI synthetic data generation
Learns patterns from a small sample to create production-like data.
PII discovery and masking
Detects PII and PHI and replaces it with realistic fake values.
Relationship-aware data
Keeps linked tables connected with referential integrity.
Millions of records in minutes
Scales for load, stress and performance testing.
Multi-format output
CSV, Parquet or JSON, or loaded straight into test databases.
Compliant by design
Cloud or on-prem, supporting GDPR and HIPAA requirements.
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Stop reporting errors before examiners find them, with every number traced from core system to board dashboard.

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Core platform migrations
Cut over banking and insurance platforms, including mainframe to cloud, without losing a record.
Regulatory reporting
Hold submissions until the data meets quality thresholds.
Financial reconciliation
Match GL to subledger automatically, with every break flagged.
Risk and credit data
Catch drift before risk, lending and pricing models degrade.
Dashboard attestation
Prove capital and board dashboards match the warehouse.
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Healthcare

Keep claims and clinical data accurate through every migration, without exposing patient records in testing.

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EHR migrations
Confirm every record survives the move to Epic, Cerner or Oracle Health.
Claims data quality
Catch errors in claims and remittance feeds as they arrive.
APCD submissions
Check every file against state templates before you submit.
Clinical dashboards
Catch KPI and report changes after every refresh.
Provider directories
Keep provider listings accurate, current and audit-ready.
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Life Sciences

Catch issues in clinical and real-world data before submission, and keep trial subject data out of test environments.

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Clinical data migrations
Move EDC, CTMS and LIMS data to the cloud without losses.
CRM migrations
Keep rebate calculations right through Veeva and Salesforce moves.
Pharmacovigilance data
Catch adverse event data issues before regulatory submission.
Commercial and clinical dashboards
Trace every KPI back to source clinical and lab records.
De-identified trial data
Keep subject data out of test, analytics and AI environments.
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Manufacturing

Avoid broken ERP cutovers and supplier overpayments, and catch sensor drift before it hits production.

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ERP migrations
Move BOM, inventory and financial data across Oracle, SAP and cloud without breaks.
Supplier reconciliation
Catch overpayments and duplicate invoices with three-way PO, ASN and invoice matching.
Sensor data quality
Catch drift before it skews predictive maintenance and yield models.
Operations dashboards
Catch report breaks after every release or upgrade.
Safe ERP test data
Keep supplier pricing and production volumes out of lower environments.
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Retail and Utilities

Catch settlement, inventory and pricing errors before your customers or regulators do.

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Settlement reconciliation
Match marketplace payout files to the general ledger, record by record.
Inventory accuracy
Keep POS, ERP and warehouse numbers in sync.
Pricing and promotions
Catch price and promotion mismatches across channels.
Reliability dashboards
Keep SAIDI and SAIFI reliability reporting accurate.
BI under load
Make sure reports hold up for thousands of concurrent users.
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Get enrollment, financial-aid and transcript data right before SIS cutover, before students feel it.

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SIS migrations
Validate moves from Banner or PeopleSoft to Workday Student or Ellucian.
Financial-aid reconciliation
Match aid and Bursar data to the general ledger.
Enrollment reporting
Keep census and admissions dashboards consistent from cycle to cycle.
Federal reporting
Monitor data quality ahead of IPEDS submissions.
Safe student data
Test and train AI without exposing real student records.
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Proves data moved intact from legacy and on-prem systems to new platforms through cutover.
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Pitfalls of Cloud Data Migration

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Cloud data migrations often fail on budget and timelines, with the majority of projects missing forecasted costs or delivery deadlines. This post outlines four common hurdles: dirty data (duplicates, inconsistent formats), choosing the wrong cloud storage option, mapping legacy data to new cloud application structures, and security/compliance gaps. It emphasizes that pre-migration validation, accurate data mapping, and thorough QA testing are essential to avoid data loss, corruption, and unexpected downtime during migration.

Key Takeaways

  • Dirty data must be fixed before migration, not after — duplicates, referential integrity issues, and mismatched data formats are far more expensive and difficult to resolve once data has already moved to the new cloud structure.
  • Storage selection directly impacts application performance — choosing the wrong cloud storage class (across providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) can hinder how effectively applications run post-migration.
  • Legacy-to-cloud data mapping requires careful documentation — differences in field counts, naming conventions, and new data types (e.g., social media, blobs, video) can create confusion if not planned and documented in advance.
  • QA and validation reduce major migration risks — data migrations commonly face missing/lost data, data corruption, and unexpected downtime, making pre-planned testing essential to confirm data was transferred completely and accurately.

This statistic shows a grim picture of wasted effort. Yet cloud data migration — moving data and workloads from on-premise systems to cloud infrastructure — remains a popular way for enterprises to replace CapEx with OpEx, driven by the need to scale data storage for AI, ML, and the growing volume of data being generated and collected.

” 36% of data migration projects kept to the forecasted budget, and only 46% were delivered on time “
-Forbes

Migrating terabytes or even petabytes of data from one location to another is a daunting task. But to understand this further, you need to look beyond the number of bytes. As pointed out, data migration is not without its risk. Being aware of the common hurdles like – data security, privacy, compliance, availability and performance – that could potentially derail your project will increase the likelihood of achieving a successful Cloud Data Migration.

Let’s check what common hurdles that lead to this dismal success rate are.

Common Hurdles of Cloud Data Migration
Dealing With Dirty Data

Accept it! From the onset, almost every organization’s data has a variety of issues. The main culprits are duplicates and inconsistent/incomplete data. Things start to “get dirty” when you have more than 5% duplicates, numerous inconsistencies such as referential integrity, truncated data, and mismatched data formats. When moving data to the cloud data structures, traditional data types often do not match the new destination formats. To reduce the overall cost of the migration, data needs to be validated before movement. For your records to be accurately mapped, you need to address data inconsistencies and incompletions before migration, as it is far more expensive and challenging to fix in the new data structures.

Failure To Choose The Proper Storage

Selecting the wrong data storage option would hinder the effective operation of applications. The team must vet the cloud storage options suitable for its operations when an enterprise migrates its data and applications to the cloud. When deciding on a provider, enterprises are looking into simplifying data management, supporting new accelerated insights, or lowering costs. Enterprises can select some data class options from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, providing Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud storage.

Mapping Old Data with New Cloud Applications

Modern data structures offer multiple workload support such as Data Warehousing and AI/ML all supported by a single Cloud offering such as DataBricks or Snowflake. This is an entirely new way of thinking about where workloads need to be executed and on which data platform. To take advantage of these modern data platforms, companies need to know how to move to these architectures and what testing is required to ensure the process runs effectively. As an example, new data elements are available in these modern data stacks that take into account things like social media, blobs, video and other data types.

There are various possibilities of change of business workflows like you may have to add two fields two in the new database, and vice versa whereas you may have had one field in your legacy database, or you may change the field names which may create a huge confusion in the whole migration process. So, before it gets more complex, the best way out is to choose a destination for your data in your new database and transfer it from where it currently lives in your legacy system and keep it documented.

Replace completely with the differences between cloud and premise databases

Security and Compliance Adjustments
61% of companies listed security as a primary concern for not moving to the cloud.

Selecting the wrong data storage option would hinder the effective operation of applications. The team must vet the cloud storage options suitable for its operations when an enterprise migrates its data and applications to the cloud. When deciding on a provider, enterprises are looking into simplifying data management, supporting new accelerated insights, or lowering costs. Enterprises can select some data class options from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, providing Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud storage.

Why is Quality Assurance playing a crucial role in Cloud Data Migration?

Verifying that all data has been moved and loaded correctly, and matches the required data-accuracy rules, has to be preplanned and implemented before data movement begins — not discovered afterward. Think about what can go wrong, and the cost of recovering from it, once issues surface after the data has already moved.

Whether you are migrating your data from legacy systems to a new system, cloud, or from one vendor’s software to another’s, it has always been one of the most challenging initiatives for IT managers. Data Accuracy is a key aspect that should be validated through planned testing when loading data from one source to a target system.

Here are a few scary metrics of Data Migration like
Migrations have missing or lost data
30%
Have some form of data corruption
40%
Migration projects have unexpected outage/downtime and no one denies the typical cost of the downtime
64%

So, how to mitigate these?

  • Check whether all the required data was transferred according to the requirements.
  • Make sure destination tables are populated with accurate values.
  • Validate that the absence of data loss unless it is based on requirements.
  • Authenticate the performance of custom scripts.

And these are also the objectives of Data Migration Testing. Migrating data is the complex work of a QA team and it requires skill, expertise, tools, and resources. As it is not a simple transfer of information from one storage to another. You need to implement a thorough validation and testing strategy to reduce risk and ensure that the data has been migrated and transformed. The faster a QA team starts analyzing, the faster the issues can be revealed and removed.

Plan A Seamless Cloud Data Migration With Customized Testing Approach

Undoubtedly, with various challenges, both technical, economical, and personnel-related, the process of cloud migration is often fraught. An enterprise must engage with Datagaps to overcome these hurdles. At Datagap, we leverage the experience of having tested large-scale data warehousing and business intelligence applications, to help you perform comprehensive testing to check if your data remain functional, stable, scalable, and compatible in the target cloud environment.

Our differentiators are our products – Datagaps ETL Validator and DataOps Dataflow. Datagaps ETL Validator generates hundreds of test cases automatically using Data Migration wizards. On the other side using Apache spark as the engine, Datagaps Dataflow (The best testing tool for Cloud Big Data Testing) can compare billions of records. Datagaps ensures Data Accuracy and Reliability by strengthening your Cloud Data Migration Testing Strategy.

Conclusion

With less than half of cloud migration projects landing on time or on budget, the pattern behind most failures is consistent: dirty data, mismatched storage choices, poorly mapped legacy fields, and security gaps that only surface after the move is already underway. By the time missing data, corruption, or unplanned downtime show up in production, fixing them costs far more than catching them would have upfront. The fix isn’t more caution after the fact — it’s building validation into the migration plan from day one, confirming data completeness, accuracy, and performance before, during, and after the move. With tools like ETL Validator and DataOps Dataflow automating that validation at scale, enterprises can turn cloud migration from a high-risk gamble into a controlled, verifiable process — one where data arrives in the new environment exactly as it should.

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FAQs: Cloud Data Migration Testing

1) What is “dirty data” and why is it a problem during cloud migration?

Dirty data includes issues such as duplicate records, referential integrity violations, incomplete values, and inconsistent data formats. If these problems are not resolved before migration, they become more difficult and expensive to correct after the data has been moved to the cloud.

2) Why does choosing the right cloud storage option matter for migration success?

Cloud providers offer multiple storage options designed for different workloads. Selecting an inappropriate storage class can negatively affect application performance, scalability, and overall system efficiency after the migration is complete.

3) What makes mapping legacy data to cloud applications challenging?

Legacy systems and modern cloud applications often differ in field structures, naming conventions, and supported data types. Careful data mapping and documentation help ensure that information is migrated accurately and consistently.

4) What are the biggest risks if a cloud migration isn’t properly tested?

Without comprehensive validation, organizations may experience missing or lost data, data corruption, application failures, and unexpected downtime. Thorough pre- and post-migration testing helps verify that data has been transferred completely, accurately, and without impacting business operations.

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