Meet Farah, who's made up. She's a consultant in Karachi, moving a textile company's accounts to Odoo. The new system's ready. The old data is the problem.
- MondayThe client exports 40,000 rows. Half the dates are in the wrong format.
- TuesdayTwo people clean it in Excel, with formulas nobody else understands.
- WednesdayThe import fails on row 18,000. Nobody knows why.
- ThursdayFixed. It imports. Now the customer codes don't match.
- Next monthNew data needs moving again, and they do it all from the start.