SF Production for Mock cutover Data load and purging

[ManishAngane]

Hi Experts

I have one questions related to the Mock cutover activity for SuccessFactors, we are planning to use the Production environment for SF and will be loading full data set(employees, foundation object ) the same as we will be doing for Go live and then would be purging the data ( ie foundation objects employees ), reloading it again for the Final Go-live.

As per my knowledge I don't foresee any issue for the data purge( soft purge and Hard purge ) on Production as we have only Employee Central module going live .

I would like for all your opinions about the same is it something common that we can use production environment for mock cutover and if we see any kind of issue related to full data purging on production.?

Appreciate for your quick replies.

Thanks and regards

Manish Angane

[siddharthrajora]

Mock cutover shouldnt be in production but in development system, we dont usually load data in production and purge it entirely

Can this be done in another instance as to fully test it end to end?

Production ideally should be loaded once, after the thorough testing in lower environments