Data migration tests provide you with significant insight into how the changes that you make to decision logic affect the results of your strategies. To ensure that your simulations are reliable enough to help you make important business decisions, you can deploy a sample of your production data to a dedicated data migration test environment.

When you use Deployment Manager in data migration pipelines, you automate exporting data from the production environment and import it into the simulation environment. Data migration pipelines also require the following:

• Pega Platform™ 8.3 or 8.4
• Decision management
• Pega Marketing™

For more information about data migration pipelines, see:

• Deploying sample production data to a simulation environment for testing
• Creating simulation tests

For more information about installing Deployment Manager 4.7.x and data migration pipelines, see:

• Configuring Deployment Manager 4.7.x for data migration pipelines
• Exporting and importing simulation data automatically with Deployment Manager 4.7.x