Data is useful. Software that makes sense of it is beautiful. But what's your exit strategy? How difficult would it be to take your data back and move it to another application? Has your software company converted it to unreadable, proprietary strings of numbers and letters that only it has the key to interpret? Technology changes, companies go under, and you will move on. Migrating data is inevitable---that's the mindset you need when approaching a data vendor. Over the past couple of months, we've had two data migration nightmares: our website forum and client databases. We didn't ask the right questions at the outset. We didn't know how our data was stored or realize the hoops we'd have to jump through to get it back. Learn from our experiences and save yourself from a long and painful process. Press play and become prepared. Listen in Browser | Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes