Data and systems integration is perhaps one of the most overlooked, yet pivotal activities that Influential is asked to undertake. In every significant company acquisition or merger, there's has to be a data and systems migration at the heart of the project. Un-glamorous and, if done well, almost un-noticed, data migration projects often suffer as a result. Without proper planning and execution, however, companies often suffer the after effects of a bad data migration long after the physical integration has been forgotten about.

Having worked within the publishing arena, with its many list and company mergers and disposals, Influential has led and been involved in many integration projects, from relatively minor to enterprise level, and so we know that attention to detail is paramount, and the ability to understand not just the physical structure of the data and systems being integrated, but also the business process context is essential to a successful outcome.

Influential has vast experience in converting into and out of various publishing IT systems (VISTA, Publisyst, Klopotek etc.) as well as data warehouse migrations (into and out of Oracle and SQL Server) and physical warehouse moves.