Editing Data migration (section)

===Application migration===
Changing application vendor—for instance a new [[Customer relationship management|CRM]] or [[Enterprise resource planning|ERP]] platform—will inevitably involve substantial transformation as almost every application or suite operates on its own specific data model and also interacts with other applications and systems within the [[enterprise application integration]] environment.<ref name="PlivnaData">{{cite web |url=http://www.gplivna.eu/papers/legacy_app_migration.htm |title=Data migration from old to new application: An experience |author=Plivna, G. |work=gplivna.eu |date=1 July 2006 |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref> Furthermore, to allow the application to be sold to the widest possible market, commercial off-the-shelf packages are generally configured for each customer using [[metadata]]. [[Application programming interfaces]] (APIs) may be supplied by vendors to protect the [[data integrity|integrity of the data]] they must handle.