Great article. I rarely seeing anyone talking about this, but it has a big influence on whether your gage management software can be effective at reducing labor costs. The people responsible for calibration data have a lot on their plates. If your software doesn't make data entry easy, people don't like to use it. Just as importantly, if migrating data from one calibration software to another is too labor-intensive, companies will stay with their legacy platforms even if they are not performing well over the long haul. Or they'll pay to have software providers do the migration for them, so software providers have grown used to taking advantage of these deficiencies to create profit centers that should be unnecessary in the 21st century. Free or low-cost data migration concierge services is one way we've found to get companies into software models that are consistent with the simplicity and usability standards people are starting to expect in all their digital products.