About Data Migration International
Enterprise Data Independence Starts Here.
Your Data. Independent. Ready for AI.
We help enterprises preserve, manage and activate business-critical information beyond the lifecycle of any application.
Trusted by Global Leaders
Who We Are
DecadesofEnterpriseDataExpertise
Founded in 1996, Data Migration International has spent three decades helping organizations manage one of their most persistent technology challenges: preserving the value of enterprise information while applications, platforms and business requirements change.
From complex SAP transformations to the retirement of business-critical legacy systems, our expertise is built on understanding not only where enterprise data resides, but also what it means and how it is used.
Today, JiVS IMP brings this experience into a unified approach to information lifecycle management, helping enterprises reduce technical dependencies, simplify IT landscapes and make historical business information available for future use.
Because applications have lifecycles. Your business information must outlive them.
Our Purpose
Why Data Independence Matters
We believe enterprises should not have to choose between modernization and preserving their information.
The problem
Enterprise data often remains tightly connected to the applications that created it. When those applications become obsolete, organizations face difficult choices:
- Migrate everything,
- Maintain costly legacy systems or
- Risk losing access to valuable business history.
Our principle
Data independence means managing enterprise information separately from its source applications while preserving the business meaning, relationships and governance needed to use it.
This principle guides our technology and our approach to enterprise transformation. It gives organizations greater flexibility to modernize systems, meet retention obligations and make trusted information available to analytics and AI.
Source applications
Independent enterprise information.
Modernization
Analytics & AI
What We Do
EnterpriseDataManagementBeyondApplications
Through JiVS IMP, Data Migration International helps enterprises address four interconnected priorities.
Data Independence
Separate enterprise information from its source applications while preserving access to historical data, documents and business relationships across changing IT environments.
Intelligent Transformation
Simplify SAP S/4HANA transformation by identifying and migrating relevant operational data while preserving historical information outside the new system.
Governed Business History
Retire SAP and non-SAP legacy applications while maintaining controlled, audit-ready access to historical business information and supporting retention requirements.
AI-Ready Enterprise Context
Help make trusted enterprise information and its business meaning accessible to AI-enabled applications and analytics through supported integrations and governed access.
What We Help Enterprises Achieve
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From SAP modernization to AI readiness, Data Migration International helps organizations overcome the limitations of application-dependent data.
Powered by JiVS IMP, our approach preserves enterprise information and its business context beyond the lifecycle of individual systems—giving organizations greater control over how their data is transformed, governed and used.
Transform with less complexity
Simplify SAP S/4HANA transformation, reduce unnecessary data migration and support cloud modernization.
Retire applications, not business history
Decommission legacy SAP and non-SAP systems while maintaining governed access to historical business information.
Govern data across its lifecycle
Support retention, compliance, data quality and organizational changes without losing essential business context.
Build a trusted foundation for AI
Make enterprise information and its business meaning accessible for analytics and AI initiatives.
Our Differentiation
What Makes JiVS IMP Different?
Enterprise data management is not simply about storing information or moving records between systems. Data retains its business value when its meaning, relationships and governance are preserved.
JiVS IMP combines application-independent information management with deep knowledge of enterprise business objects — a business object connects related information into a meaningful entity, such as a customer order, invoice or supplier record, rather than leaving it as disconnected database entries.
By preserving this context beyond the original application, JiVS IMP helps organizations maintain usable business history, support SAP and non-SAP transformation, and prepare governed information for new business and AI use cases.
Object
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Meaning
Business semantics survive beyond the source application.
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Relationships
Orders, invoices and suppliers stay connected as business objects.
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Governance
Retention, access and audit controls travel with the data.
Not just preserving data, but preserving its business value.
Proven Experience
ProveninComplexEnterpriseEnvironments
Our expertise is grounded in decades of work with organizations managing complex, business-critical SAP and non-SAP landscapes. From large-scale system decommissioning to long-term historical data preservation, JiVS IMP supports enterprises seeking to reduce IT complexity without sacrificing access to essential information.
Customer example · DuPont
In a global legacy modernization initiative, DuPont worked with Accenture and Data Migration International to retire 17 SAP legacy systems, covering more than 50 TB of historical data, in 12 months.
The project illustrates how large enterprises can simplify their IT landscapes while preserving access to historical business information.
Read the DuPont customer storyOur Journey
30 Years of Enterprise Data Innovation
Founded in Switzerland in 1996, Data Migration International has spent three decades helping enterprises manage business-critical information through technological change.
From SAP transformation and application retirement to data independence and AI readiness, our evolution reflects a commitment to preserving the long-term value of enterprise information.
01
1996
Founded in Kreuzlingen
Thomas Failer and Tamara Rüegg found Data Migration AG in Switzerland, specialising in enterprise data itself rather than SAP consulting.
02
2003–2005
JiVS is born
DMI shifts from consulting to standard software, launching JiVS Migration and JiVS History as the platform’s first modules.
03
2015–2019
Built for international growth
The Data Migration International Group is formed, with six independent companies operating across markets.
04
2019
The US market takes off
Within a year of entering the United States, the market generates around one-third of DMI’s revenue.
05
2020s
The S/4HANA era
JiVS helps enterprises move only the data they need to S/4HANA and retire legacy systems while preserving compliant access to business history.
06
2026
30 years of data independence
DMI marks three decades with JiVS IMP and a clear vision: Your Data. Independent. Ready for AI.
Geo-Presence
Swiss roots. Global reach.
Headquartered in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, Data Migration International helps some of the world’s most innovative companies around the world solve their business and technology challenges.
Kreuzlingen (HQ)FrankfurtLondonSan FranciscoChicagoDallasNew YorkMadridDubaiJohannesburgHeadquarters
Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
DMI Offices
Frankfurt · London · San Francisco · Chicago · Dallas · New York
Partner Presence
Madrid · Dubai · Johannesburg
Leadership
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Thomas Failer
Founder & CEO, Data Migration International Group
EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Switzerland Finalist 2024
Thomas Failer has spent decades challenging the conventional relationship between enterprise applications and the data they contain.
As founder and CEO of Data Migration International, he has helped shape a vision in which business-critical information remains accessible, governed and valuable—independently of the systems that created it.
“Thomas Failer is an exciting personality who has a distinct flair for identifying problems and developing solutions – with great success.”
Watch · EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 Gala
Our Vision
BuildingtheFoundationforAI-ReadyEnterprises
AI is changing how organizations use enterprise information. But reliable AI outcomes depend on more than models and computing power. They require access to relevant, trusted data with the business context needed to interpret it.
Much of that context remains distributed across operational systems, legacy applications and historical archives. Our vision is to make enterprise information more independent, accessible and useful across technology generations.
By combining proven information lifecycle management with governed access to business-context-rich data, JiVS IMP helps enterprises build a stronger foundation for analytics, automation and AI-enabled innovation.
The future of enterprise AI starts with understanding enterprise data.
Make Your Enterprise Data Independent
YourDataShouldOutliveYourApplications.
Discover how Data Migration International and JiVS IMP can help your organization simplify transformation, preserve business history and prepare enterprise information for what comes next.
Talk to Our Experts
The people behind DMI
OurTeam
Behind our success lies a team who understands your needs—with the right skills and experience to transform challenges into business value.
Highly qualified professionals, our employees are experts in their fields—from seasoned SAP specialists and business IT professionals to talented technical experts and experienced project managers.
We also have the unique benefit of an expert partner network of more than 200 IT specialists.
