This multinational manufacturer grows in part through acquiring smaller businesses. Before a newly acquired company can be fully onboarded onto the enterprise ERP, its data has to meet the parent organization's business rules. Customer records, inventory data, sales quotes — everything needs to be structured correctly, formatted consistently, and compliant with data policies built up over years of enterprise operations.
Smaller acquired companies rarely meet these standards out of the gate. Their data was built to serve their systems, not the enterprise's. Field formats differ. Required values are missing. Business rules that the enterprise takes for granted simply weren't enforced in the acquired company's environment.
Data quality problems discovered at migration time are painful: corrupted records, failed ERP processes, manual cleanup measured in weeks, and loss of confidence in the data at exactly the moment leadership is trying to integrate a new business.
The data team needed a way to continuously validate data quality throughout the entire onboarding process — running checks every day, across every relevant data domain, and surfacing compliance gaps before they could become migration problems.
The organization deployed Intercepts to serve as the data quality validation layer between acquired company systems and their enterprise ERP.
For each onboarding engagement, the data team defines a library of SQL queries in Intercepts. Each query encodes a specific ERP compliance rule — a customer record completeness check, an inventory field format validation, a sales quote business rule verification. Once configured, Intercepts runs these queries every day, automatically. The checks run consistently throughout the entire onboarding process — which may span weeks or months.
The daily validation suite spans the full breadth of data that will migrate to the ERP:
Query results are surfaced through a web portal, giving both the onboarding team and management continuous visibility into compliance status. Leadership can see the state of the acquired company's data any day throughout the process — the trajectory of issues found and resolved becomes visible and manageable.
When the daily queries come back clean — when every compliance check passes — the organization has evidence-based confidence that the migration will land correctly. The data has been validated continuously. The ERP won't receive records it can't process.
"We used to go into ERP migrations hoping the data was ready. Now we know it's ready — because Intercepts has been validating it every day for months. It changed how we think about acquisitions entirely."— Data Systems Operations, Global Manufacturing Organization
If you're managing an ERP migration, a business acquisition, or a data consolidation project, Intercepts can automate the daily data quality validation that gives you confidence at cutover time.