http://scn.sap.

com/community/rapid-deployment/blog/2012/05/11/a-better-way-tomigrate-your-sap-data-with-rapid-deployment-solutions

RDS package
1)

SAP Data Services: Data management platform to support all migration tasks

2)

SAP Information Steward: Data profiling and assessment as well as data lineage and reconciliation from target
to source

3)

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform: Includes SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (formerly known as Xcelsius
Dashboards), SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and SAP Crystal Reports

Data Services is a well-known and scalable data integration platform for ETL processes (Extract, Transfer, Load).
Some of the key features of Data Services include:

A single interface to design data structures and build transformation rules

A visualization of source-to-target metadata to analyze data lineage and impact

Profile and analyze any source data

Database extraction to easily extract legacy systems

Easy mapping (reusable)

Reusable and sharable transforms and functions (drag and drop) to minimize own programming

Web-based administration to manage job operations

Operational dashboards to monitor job execution and trends

Data Services can connect to any source or target system via the adapter framework. While it does have native
connectivity to SAP systems, it also has connections to files, ODBC, mainframe, XML, Excel, and many other
connectivity options. Architecturally, Data Services resides in the orchestration and integration layer of your existing
architecture.

Step-by-Step Demo on Using the Migration Content in Data Services

Migrating Customer Master data to SAP CRM system.

EMIGALL for legacy to sap data migration ,

other tools for migration are eCATT
LSMW for minor data migration

Three categories of validation are applied to the data.

The data is validated to check if
mandatory fields are populated;
the format and the values of data are acceptable to SAP.

While these seem like standard validations, the framework offers two advantages. First, it is not necessary to load the
data into SAP to determine the validity of the data. SAP Best Practices for Data Migration allows data to be validated
within its staging area.