About MigrationCost.com
An independent reference for the cost of cloud, data-centre, ERP and platform migrations. Operated by Digital Signet, founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. Built so the migration-budgeting question can be answered without reading vendor-published case studies that conveniently stop before the cost-overrun phase.
The reason this site exists
Migration cost is one of the most over-claimed and under-budgeted line items in enterprise IT. Vendor case studies show successful migrations at clean-line cost; reality includes the unforeseen integration scope, the data-quality clean-up, the parallel-running cost during cutover, the change-management training, and the headcount over-budget that almost every programme hits. Most top-ranking pages are written by SI partners pitching the engagement. This site exists to publish defensible migration cost bands by migration type with the assumption set behind each, plus a calculator that takes scope inputs and returns a working budget figure including realistic contingency.
Who builds this
Oliver runs Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio that builds data-led pricing and decision tools using public datasets. After 20 years as a solutions architect and tech lead across media, utilities, satellite, and data, he founded Digital Signet to apply autonomous AI development methodology to real software at scale.
Reach Oliver: [email protected]. Profile: LinkedIn.
About Digital Signet, the operator
This site is operated by Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio founded by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. It is part of a portfolio of consumer cost-reference and calculator sites we run as a live R&D lab for our Signet methodology, an autonomous AI development team that ships real software at scale.
Digital Signet does not run a migration practice, does not act as an SI partner or reseller, does not run a cloud-strategy consultancy, and does not accept paid placements from any cloud provider, SI or migration-tooling vendor. Editorial direction is set by Oliver. Drafts are produced via Digital Signet's autonomous AI development methodology and reviewed against the editorial framework before publication.
For consulting enquiries (fractional CTO, AI product strategy, autonomous-dev-team setup): see digitalsignet.com.
Editorial principles and disclosures
- Source pattern. Built on public reference material across the relevant publisher landscape.
- No paid placements. Does not run a migration practice, does not act as an SI partner or reseller, does not run a cloud-strategy consultancy, and does not accept paid placements from any cloud provider, SI or migration-tooling vendor. Independent of every named third party in the relevant space.
- Math is documented inline. Where the site has a calculator, inputs and assumptions are visible on the calculator page. Nothing is hidden behind opaque scoring.
- Update only when underlying reality changes. Triggers: Major cloud provider migration-pricing-model change; New Gartner / Forrester migration TCO research with material findings; Material movement in published SI partner day rates over a 12-month sample; New entrant publishing migration pricing materially below the existing band.
Contact
For corrections, methodology questions, or scenarios that don't fit cleanly: [email protected].