Nobody Wants to Clean This Up. It Still Has to Happen.
Core data is the working record set your business depends on every day: customers, vendors, items, pricing, and bills of material. In most companies it has accumulated for years — the same customer entered three times with three spellings, discontinued items nobody archived, vendors who went out of business a decade ago, and a bill of material that engineering updated in a spreadsheet rather than in the system. Migrating that as-is means paying to move problems into a system you have just invested in. Cadence handles core data as its own gated stage, after configuration planning, so records land in structures that have already been agreed. AI does the heavy lifting — cleansing, mapping to the new structures, validating against the rules your configuration defines, and flagging duplicates, orphans, and inconsistencies. Your team decides what to keep, what to merge, and what to leave behind. Nothing is loaded until it has been reviewed, and nothing is billed as a change order when the data turns out messier than anyone admitted.
