We are in the middle of our implementation and planning for our go live date. So far, we've only loaded subsets of our data for testing and configuration. In our sandbox, I've started loading our entire data set as a trial and the performance is abysmal. We're on CRM Online and using an integration tool provided by our integration partner to load the records. Accounts (231k) took about 2.5 days to load. Contacts (1.5million) looks like it is going to take about 22 days to load. I'm getting load rates of 2,500-3,500/hour, depending on the day and time.
So, I'm in a bit of a pickle as we can't take a month to load our data (we still have to do opportunities as well as the other smaller entities and relationships)
I'm looking for suggestions on how to make this better. We can take a 3-5 day load, but not much more. One thought was to begin loading now (we're about 4 weeks away from our scheduled go live) and try and do updates after the initial load, but that presents other issues as work is continuing on the system. I tried the new bulk data load, but that does not seem to be as capable as it could be.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
-Frank