# Ixia Consulting

> Ixia Consulting is a specialist enterprise data consultancy founded in Cape Town in 2003, delivering globally. It solves complex enterprise data problems across migration, data quality, governance, analytics, automation and AI, and builds its own technology, led by Ixia Data Quality AI.

Key facts:
- Founded 2003, headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa; delivery across Africa, Europe, the UK, the USA, the Middle East and Asia.
- Migrated 2,400+ retail stores to SAP Retail across 11 go-lives in nine months, including 450 stores in a single weekend cutover with full reconciliation and no critical issues.
- Handled 50bn+ rows of data on major programmes.
- Standardised master data and Power BI reporting across 20+ countries and 40+ data domains for a global consumer goods group.
- Decommissioned a 30-year IBM Adabas mainframe, migrating financial and stock history into SAP with full audit traceability and zero post-load corrections.
- Consolidated 146 customer data sources and 2,116,759 records into one governed golden record set for a healthcare and pharmacy organisation.
- Builds Ixia Data Quality AI 2.1: an SAP-aware data quality platform with profiling, business-defined rules, fuzzy and semantic duplicate detection, AI column classification, AI-generated fix plans, run history and Power BI executive dashboards. Connects to SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and flat files.
- Founders: Dave Welensky (Data Lead & Transformation Specialist) and Mike Kraus (BI Architect & Automation Strategist).

## Capabilities
- [Data Migration & Modernisation](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/data-migration/): SAP ECC to S/4HANA, SAP Retail, legacy decommissioning, validation, reconciliation, cutover.
- [Data Quality & Governance](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/data-quality/): Ixia Data Quality AI, SAP-aware rules, duplicate detection, governance, reconciliation.
- [Analytics & Decision Intelligence](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/enterprise-performance-management/): Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, SAP Analytics, executive dashboards, KPI frameworks.
- [Automation & Applications](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/business-automation-2/): Microsoft Power Platform, Python, SQL, workflow automation, bespoke applications.

## Work
- [SAP Retail Transformation](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/work/sap-retail-transformation/)
- [Global Master Data & Analytics](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/work/global-master-data-analytics/)
- [Legacy Platform Decommissioning](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/work/legacy-decommissioning/)

## Technology
- [Ixia Data Quality AI](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/data-quality/)
- [Technology stack](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/technology/)

## Specialist expertise
- [SAP S/4HANA data migration](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/sap-s4hana-data-migration/): scope, Business Partner strategy, migration cycles, reconciliation, cutover.
- [Data migration reconciliation](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/data-migration-reconciliation/): why record counts are not reconciliation, and what the evidence must prove.
- [Migration assurance](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/migration-assurance/): cycle gates, data quality gates, exception discipline and programme visibility.
- [SAP legacy decommissioning](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/sap-legacy-decommissioning/): retiring systems while preserving auditable history.
- [JiVS in migration architectures](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/technology/jivs/): where the Data Migration International platform fits, and the responsibility split.

## Insights (written by practitioners)
- [Can You Trust Your Data? Why the Question Hasn't Changed](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/can-you-trust-your-data/)
- [Data Assessments: Know the Problem Before You Migrate It](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/data-assessments/)
- [Getting Data Loaded Is Not the Same as Getting Data Migrated](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/loaded-is-not-migrated/)
- [SAP S/4HANA Data Quality: Why Waiting Until Migration Is Too Late](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/s4hana-data-quality-too-late/)
- [From SAP Information Steward to AI: Why Ixia Builds Data Technology](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/why-ixia-builds-data-technology/)
- [Migrations Do Not Fail Because of Tools](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/migrations-fail-on-ownership/)
- [AI Where It Adds Business Value](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/ai-where-it-adds-value/)
- Author: [Dave Welensky, Director](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/authors/dave-welensky/)

## Contact
- Email: info@ixiaconsulting.co.za
- Phone: +27 21 403 6581
- [Contact page](https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/contact/)