Decommissioning your LMS: the art of data extraction

Mark Aberdour
8 min readMar 22, 2024

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The final project at my last role involved extracting seven years of learner data for 80,000 learners from an LMS that was being decommissioned. The shock of our vendor’s £150,000 quote to both extract and host 3TB of learner data led me to explore a robotic process automation (RPA) solution using a low cost browser plugin, UIVision. This article

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Mark Aberdour

Freelance learning technology consultant with 25+ years experience in helping organisations elevate their use of learning technology.