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Data & documents Jun 22, 2026

Migrating Data from a Legacy System Without Surprises

Inventory, field mapping, trial runs and totals checks: how to move data out of a legacy system and how to evidence that the transfer really was complete.

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Data & documents Jun 19, 2026

Finding and merging duplicates: customer and product records

Duplicate customer and product records: how they arise, how similarity matching and address normalisation find them, and how to merge without losing history.

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Data & documents Jun 17, 2026

Getting master data in order: customers, articles, suppliers

Customers, articles, suppliers: which system leads, which fields are mandatory and how to clean up master data without halting your daily operations.

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Digitising approvals: deputies, deadlines, audit trail

From the circulation folder to a digital approval: responsibility, deputies, deadlines, reminders, dual control, value limits and a sound audit trail.

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Monitoring interfaces properly: beyond the server being up

Monitoring interfaces beyond availability: business-level checks, thresholds without false alarms, escalation to a named owner and logs with defined retention.

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Preventing duplicate postings: idempotency explained

Why an unprotected retry creates a second invoice and how idempotency prevents it: operation key, check before writing, log of keys, finding old cases.

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When an interface fails: spotting silent outages

Detecting, reporting and bridging silent interface failures: heartbeat, time windows, volume reconciliation, queueing and a defined restart procedure at work.

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Automating file imports: six failure modes and their fixes

Daily file transfers between two systems: six typical failure modes from delimiters to duplicate deliveries, and how to check, log and report every one of them.

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When You Need Middleware — and When You Do Not

Middleware brokers between systems that cannot talk to each other directly. When a direct connection is enough and when the extra layer starts to pay off.

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