When people think about migration failures, they usually imagine visible technical problems — system outages, failed deployments, or broken integrations. But many of the most damaging migration issues do not appear immediately. The system continues running. Users can still log in. Reports still generate. Workflows still move forward. And yet, something underneath has changed. Customer status no longer means the same thing. Historical records behave differently. Financial data becomes inconsistent across systems. The migration appears successful from a technical perspective, while the business gradually loses confidence in the data itself. That is what makes data migration risk difficult to detect. A system outage gets immediate attention. A data problem can quietly damage the business for months. Why Data Migration Is More Dangerous Than Infrastructure Migration Infrastructure migration and data migration are often treated as part of the same process. In reality, they carry very different types of risk.…