About Efficient Electric Corp:
Efficient Electric Corp. (EEC) is a Columbus-based electrical contractor providing residential and commercial electrical services. Their work ranges from routine service calls and maintenance to larger installation and upgrade projects, supporting a wide range of clients across central Ohio. As a growing service-based business, Efficient Electric relies on efficient scheduling, clear communication, and reliable systems to manage ongoing projects and customer relationships.
About the project:
Purchasing a new software product can be a big, exciting step toward standardizing a business’s data and gaining access to better tools. However, migrating data from an existing system—especially one built in-house—can be expensive or unsupported. That can quickly turn excitement into frustration. This is the position EEC, a local company, found themselves in, so we worked with them to understand both systems and migrate their data.
A big part of the challenge was translating data from a purpose-built database that EEC knew very well into a more generic system designed to be adapted to many different businesses. We were also dealing with different database engines and very different approaches to storing the same information. In some cases, it wasn’t immediately clear whether the new system supported certain data from the old one.
In the end, we were able to successfully migrate their data and work with them to understand how their workflows mapped to the new system. To do this, we relied heavily on our engineers’ experience with databases and their ability to reverse-engineer existing data structures. We always enjoy working with other companies local to Columbus, especially when we can help resolve a frustrating problem.
Services Provided
- Data Migration
- Database Transformation & Mapping
- Legacy System Analysis
- Cross-Platform Data Integration
- Workflow Mapping & System Alignment
- Database Engineering
