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Usually, yes. If the vendor's export tools no longer work, we can often extract data directly from the underlying database with your IT team's help. We profile the data first to understand its structure and quality, then map it into Salesforce objects. Attachments and notes need their own plan, since they are often stored separately from the main records.

We first agree the account hierarchy, including how distributors, end users and ship-to locations relate, and then load in order: parent accounts, child accounts, contacts, products and open opportunities. Each record carries its source ID, so it can be traced back. Test loads let your sales operations team confirm that territories and ownership look right before we set a cutover date.

In staging, in almost every case. Deduplication and standardization are cheaper in a staging environment, and loading clean data means duplicate rules, validation and reports work from day one. Some cleanup, such as enriching missing fields, can continue after launch, but the core account and contact list should be cleaned and agreed before it reaches users.