CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Cordis CRM and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Cordis CRM
Source
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Destination
Compatibility
7 of 8
objects map 1:1 between Cordis CRM and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Cordis CRM and Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales take different structural approaches to organizing customer data. Cordis CRM uses Profiles and Campaigns as primary entities; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales uses an Account-Contact hierarchy where every Contact must link to an Account, and Deals live as Opportunities attached to Accounts. That structural difference shapes how we sequence the migration. We extract Contacts, Companies, Pipelines, Tasks, Documents, and Campaigns from Cordis CRM, map them to their Dynamics 365 equivalents, and resolve lookups before inserting dependent records. Because Cordis has no documented bulk export API, we work with the customer's CSV export file, normalize the structure, and load through the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales REST API with batch processing. Workflows, automations, and reporting configurations do not migrate; we deliver a written inventory of these for the customer's admin to rebuild in Dynamics 365.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Source platform
Cordis CRM platform overview
Scorecard, SWOT, gotchas, and pricing for Cordis CRM.
Destination platform
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales platform overview
Scorecard, SWOT, gotchas, and pricing for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Data migration guide
The complete Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales migration guide
Data model, import mechanisms, field mapping strategy, pitfalls, and cutover — by the engineers running it.
Destination checklist
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales migration checklist
Pre- and post-cutover tasks for moving onto Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Cordis CRM object lands in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales , including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Cordis CRM
Contact
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Contact
1:1Cordis CRM Contacts map directly to Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Contact records. We resolve the Account relationship by matching the source Contact's associated Company or Profile name to a destination Account, creating the Account if it does not exist. External IDs from Cordis CRM export are preserved in a custom field for deduplication. Email, phone, address, and standard profile fields map to their typed Dynamics 365 equivalents.
Cordis CRM
Company / Profile
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Account
1:1Cordis CRM Company records and Profile entities map to Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Account. We use the Company name or Profile name as the Account Name and domain or website as the Account Website field. Account is inserted before any Contact records to satisfy the required AccountId lookup on Contact. Any contact-company relationship graph from Cordis CRM is preserved through the Account-Contact linkage in Dynamics 365.
Cordis CRM
Pipeline / Deal
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Opportunity
1:1Cordis CRM Pipelines and associated Deals map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Opportunity records. We map the source pipeline name to a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Process and Record Type, and the source stage names map to StageName values on the Opportunity. Probability percentages, close dates, and deal values migrate directly. Owner assignment resolves by email match against the destination Dynamics 365 User table.
Cordis CRM
Campaign
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Campaign
1:1Cordis CRM Campaigns map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Campaign records with campaign type, status, and dates preserved. Campaign Members from Cordis CRM migrate to Campaign Members in Dynamics 365, linked by email match to the corresponding Contact or Lead. We insert Campaigns before Campaign Members to satisfy the required CampaignId lookup during member import.
Cordis CRM
Task
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Task
1:1Cordis CRM Tasks (both automated and manual) map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Task records. Task Subject, Status, Priority, and ActivityDate migrate directly. Owner assignment resolves via email match to the destination User table. Recurrence rules from Cordis CRM are flagged as a gap because Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales does not support recurring tasks natively; the customer's admin reconfigures recurring task patterns as needed.
Cordis CRM
Document
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Note / ContentDocument
1:1Cordis CRM documents attached to records map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Notes (the older Note object) linked via ContentDocumentLink to the parent Contact, Account, or Opportunity. We extract the document content and filename, re-associate it using the record mapping table generated during the migration, and flag that only the latest version of each document migrates. Document version history beyond the current version is not available in the Cordis CSV export.
Cordis CRM
Custom Field
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Custom Field
lossyCordis CRM custom fields on Contacts, Companies, Deals, and Campaigns migrate to custom fields in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . Cordis CRM does not publicly document its custom field data types, so we survey the customer's instance during scoping to identify all active custom fields, infer their types from the exported data, and map them to the appropriate Dynamics 365 field type (text, number, date, picklist, or checkbox). Custom fields are pre-created in the destination org schema before data import begins.
Cordis CRM
Attachment
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Attachment
1:1File attachments linked to Cordis CRM records (Contacts, Companies, Deals) migrate as Salesforce Attachment equivalents in Dynamics 365, stored on the parent record with filename preservation. We extract each attachment, map it to the corresponding parent record using the record ID mapping table, and re-associate it post-import. Attachments that exceed Dynamics 365 file size limits are flagged for manual re-upload after migration.
| Cordis CRM | Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company / Profile | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Pipeline / Deal | Opportunity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Campaign | Campaign1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task | Task1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Document | Note / ContentDocument1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field | Custom Fieldlossy | Fully supported | |
| Attachment | Attachment1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Cordis CRM gotchas
No documented public API for self-service bulk export
Google Workspace integration does not auto-export email history
Document version history may not export cleanly
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales gotchas
Professional tier 15-table custom table limit blocks migrations
October 2024 pricing increase applies at renewal for all customers
Custom fields must be created in the UI before API writes
Power Platform request limits apply to bulk migrations
Activity records orphaned to inactive owners fail silently
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and scoping
We audit the customer's Cordis CRM instance to assess record counts, data volumes, pipeline configurations, stage counts, custom fields, and document attachment volume. We also determine the target Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales edition (Professional at $65/user or Enterprise at $105/user) based on the customer's user count and feature requirements. We request a CSV export file from the customer and review its structure during scoping. This step identifies any gaps in the export that require vendor-assisted extraction from Cordis.
Schema design in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
We design the destination schema in the customer's Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales org. This includes creating custom fields to match Cordis CRM custom fields (with type-mapped Dynamics 365 field types), configuring Opportunity Record Types and Sales Processes to match the Cordis pipeline structure, and setting up any required custom objects. Schema is validated in a sandbox or dev org before production migration begins. We also define the Account-Contact resolution strategy based on the customer's data.
CSV normalization and parent-record resolution
We normalize the Cordis CRM CSV export into a format compatible with the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales REST API. This includes field name mapping, data type conversion, special character handling, and date format standardization. We also resolve parent-record lookups at this stage: every Contact's associated Company becomes an AccountId reference, every Opportunity's associated Company becomes an AccountId reference, and owners resolve by email match against the destination User table. Records with unresolved lookups go to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to address.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into the customer's Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales sandbox using production-like data volume. The customer's admin reconciles record counts (Accounts in, Contacts in, Opportunities in, Campaign records in), spot-checks 25-50 random records against the Cordis CRM source export, and validates the Account-Contact linkage and Opportunity-Account linkage. Any mapping corrections happen here, not in production. The customer signs off on the sandbox results before production migration begins.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Accounts (from Cordis Companies and Profiles), Contacts (with AccountId resolved), Opportunities (with AccountId, OwnerId, and Stage resolved), Campaign records, Task history, and Documents (last because they have lookups to standard objects). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use batch processing and handle rate limits with exponential backoff against the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales API.
Cutover, validation, and automation inventory delivery
We freeze writes in Cordis CRM during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales as the system of record. We deliver a custom fields inventory document and, if applicable, a workflow and automation rebuild inventory for the customer's admin to reference when rebuilding Cordis automations in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Flow. We support a one-week hypercare window to resolve any immediate reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Cordis workflows as Dynamics 365 Flows inside the migration scope.
Platform deep dives
Cordis CRM
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Cordis CRM and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Object compatibility
3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Cordis CRM: Not applicable — no public API..
Data volume sensitivity
Cordis CRM doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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