Migrating from FMS Cloud to Arbor Access

[Rawns]

Hay everyone. I'm wondering if anyone has migrated from FMS Cloud to Arbour Access for their finance package? We have a scenario where a school is moving from ESS FMS Cloud to Arbor Access and it seems to be playing out like so:

 

- Arbor say they cannot import any historical info from FMS and the Access system will start fresh with the key financial numbers keyed in

- ESS will offer a copy of the FMS SQL database before it's deleted but no method of accessing it but suggest they have met their obligation of handing the school their "data"

 

HMRC say finance data needs to be retained for 6 years plus the current academic year. Is just a raw (essentially inaccessible) SQL database backup enough here? If a school suddenly get financially audited at any point and are asked for specifics, what happens here?  There must be other schools that have been through this?