B
Evidence Grade B
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38%
38% -- share of data migration projects over budget or aborted for data migration projects (2026)
38% of data migration projects run over time, run over budget, or get abandoned partway through.
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Value
38%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
North America
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Bloor Research
Primary
Tier B
https://www.datamagnet.co/post/clean-crm-data-before-migration/ ↗
Source Article
Clean Your CRM Data Before You Migrate - Here's Why It Matters
Disclosure: Datamagnet publishes this article. Product capabilities described below are based on public documentation, retrieved July 20, 2026.
Why You Should Clean Your CRM Data Before Migrating (Not After)
You're moving from HubSpot to Salesforce, or the other way around, and the project is alread…
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Bloor Research
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Methodology
Bloor Research Data Migration white paper; down from 84% in an earlier survey
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IndustryTechnology
RegionNorth America
RoleAll marketers
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data migration projects: 38% share of data migration projects over budget or aborted. Source: Bloor Research (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/bloor-migration-projects-over-budget-schedule
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/bloor-migration-projects-over-budget-schedule" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>38%</strong> -- share of data migration projects over budget or aborted for data migration projects<br><small>Source: Bloor Research (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/bloor-migration-projects-over-budget-schedule" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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