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- Tickets and conversations: including attachments, statuses, and customer interactions.
- Contacts and organizations: preserving complete customer profiles.
- Knowledge base content: FAQs, articles.
- Custom fields and workflows: ensuring operational continuity.
Focus on relevant data and compliance (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) to streamline the migration process.
- Interval Migration: provides control over the data transfer timing, allowing you to pause and resume the process.
- Delta Migration: A follow-up migration that transfers newly created or updated data after the initial full migration.
The right strategy ensures minimal downtime and a smooth platform transition.
- Compatibility with your source and target platforms.
- Support for custom objects, attachments, and threaded tickets.
- Automated error detection and reporting.
- Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other regulations.
The right tools make migration faster, safer, and error-free.
- Pre-migration audits: remove duplicates and fix inconsistencies.
- Test migrations: verify data mapping before full transfer.
- Post-migration validation: compare ticket counts, attachments, and customer records.
- Rollback planning: maintain secure backups to prevent data loss.
These steps protect critical support data and ensure a seamless migration.
- Train agents on new workflows and platform features.
- Update SOPs to reflect system changes.
- Use dashboards and reporting tools to monitor performance.
- Gather feedback from agents and customers to refine processes.
A structured post-migration plan ensures your team adapts quickly and maintains high-quality customer support.
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