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title: "Data Migration Services UK | Shipshape Data"
description: "Data migration services that land without drama: warehouse, database, and cloud migration onto a governed foundation, reconciled to the row and supported past cutover."
canonical: https://shipshapedata.com/services/data-migration/
language: en-GB
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# Data migration

> Data migration services that land without drama: warehouse, database, and cloud migration onto a governed foundation, reconciled to the row and supported past cutover.

Section: Home > Services > Data migration

Canonical page: https://shipshapedata.com/services/data-migration/

On this page:

- Moved. Proven. Kept.
- What our migration services cover
  - Warehouse and database migration
  - Cloud data migration
  - Legacy system retirement
  - Pipelines and models
- Proof it works
  - 7 systems
  - 14 weeks
  - 1.5 days a week
- How a migration runs
  - Audit and map
  - Strategy before movement
  - Stage and clean
  - Reconcile and prove
  - Cut over and stay
- A data migration strategy that survives contact
- Cloud migration that leaves you AI-ready
- Questions we hear most
- What happens when you get in touch
  - You tell us what's moving
  - A scoping conversation
  - A straight answer

## Frequently asked questions

### What do data migration services include?

Everything between the system you have and the system you want: auditing and mapping the source data, designing the migration strategy, staging and cleaning the data in transit, reconciling every row against the source, cutting over, and supporting the new platform afterwards. At Shipshape Data the destination is a governed cloud foundation, not a copy of the old mess in a new place.

### Should we migrate in one go or in phases?

Phased, almost always. A big-bang migration bets the business on one weekend; a phased data migration strategy moves one domain at a time, proves each one against the source, and keeps a rollback path open. The exception is small, simple estates where the overhead of phasing outweighs the risk it removes. We will tell you which yours is.

### Will there be downtime?

Cutover downtime depends on how long your systems can run in parallel. Where source and target can run side by side, migrations land with no user-facing downtime: the switch happens after the data is proven. Where a hard cutover is unavoidable, we schedule it, rehearse it, and time-box it in writing first.

### How do you make sure no data is lost?

Reconciliation, not reassurance. Every migrated table is counted, checksummed, and compared against its source, and the differences are explained line by line before anything is switched off. The reconciliation report is a deliverable you keep, which also keeps your auditors happy.

### Which platforms do you migrate to?

Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric, with dbt and Fivetran in the pipeline layer. Sources can be almost anything: legacy databases, on-premise warehouses, SaaS platforms, spreadsheets, or another cloud. We recommend the target that fits your estate; we do not resell licences.

### What does a data migration cost?

It depends on the volume, the number of sources, and the state of the data, so we scope before we price and put the number in writing. Migration is usually delivered as the first phase of a foundation build, which is why our engagements are priced as fixed, scoped outcomes rather than open-ended day rates.

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