Your hands on the keyboard. Our scars in the room.
You have capable engineers and you want the knowledge to stay in-house. Good instinct. The risk is not that your team can’t run a migration. It is that they will make every first-timer’s mistake on your production data, on your timeline.
Most migration decisions are easy to get wrong exactly once: a field mapping that flattens history, a process-template reshape that breaks reporting, a sequencing choice that strands a team mid-move. The traps are the same whichever way your move runs: into the cloud, out of it, into one organisation after a merger, or out to GitHub. We have made or fixed each of those mistakes somewhere else already. A guided migration means your team never makes them on your estate.
What changes for you: the migration gets done by your people, the knowledge of how it was done stays with your people, and the risk of learning on the job goes to us.
How it works:
- Working sessions. We design the migration together: sequencing, mappings, template reshaping, and cutover planning.
- Tooling set up right. Whether that is Microsoft’s import, the open-source tools, or something custom, it is configured by people who have configured it hundreds of times.
- On call when it matters. When a run fails at 2am on collection three of seven, your engineer is talking to someone who has seen that exact failure, not searching forums.
- Validation before cutover. You prove the migration is complete and correct before anyone flips a switch, not after.
This is not for you if nobody on your team can be freed up to do the work. Guided only works when your engineers have real time allocated. If they don’t, a managed migration is the honest answer, and it costs less than a guided migration done in stolen hours.
If the engagement fails to meet the agreed standard, we refund your fee.
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