Overcoming Technical Debt Through Automated Migration Planning
As a data-driven culture becomes more prevalent, enterprises depend on data-backed business decisions instead of intuitions. In this regard, real-time analytics is an essential tool for enterprises to respond to market changes. At the same time, traditional warehouses with structured data are proving expensive and time-consuming for modern business needs. Hence, enterprises are opting for a data lakehouse like Databricks to combine the reliability of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. That said, enterprises face a host of technical challenges while migrating legacy data to the cloud. Without proper migration planning, a majority of initiatives risk delays, cost escalations, or failure.
Preventing Disruptions via Comprehensive Data Lineage and Assessment
While preparing for cloud migration, most organizations fail to understand the value of a comprehensive assessment. Complex application dependencies can disrupt cloud migration by causing incomplete data transfers, broken third-party integrations, failed user authentications, and data compliance violations. Data lineage provides an understanding of data dependencies and flows between applications and systems. Factor in clear data lineage ensures that data is migrated properly to the new cloud environment and is immediately ready for use.
Deploying an automated data migration planning tool offers structural benefits including:
- Minimizing risks and business disruptions throughout the migration process.
- Mapping complex application dependencies across on-premises environments like Oracle and Teradata.
- Establishing data lineage to ensure data quality, consistency, data integrity, and regulatory governance.
Accelerating Cloud Modernization via Onix Eagle
Automating warehouse assessment and planning allows organizations to smoothly migrate to modern platforms. Onix Eagle serves as a specialized, automated data migration planning tool that assesses legacy warehouses to identify dependencies, workloads, ELT and ETL scripts, and system logs. By dividing the migration project into prioritized phases, it enables enterprises to define workloads and migrate them systematically to achieve rapid return on investment. Additionally, 38% of enterprises waste 30% of their cloud spending budget, often overrunning costs due to inadequate assessment. Onix Eagle provides accurate timeline and budget estimates by analyzing data models, volumetrics, and required resource costs.
Key operational benefits include:
- Detailed assessment of legacy workloads to avoid complications during cloud migration.
- Continuous post-migration optimization and FinOps support to manage long-term cloud costs.
- Seamless integration across the Onix Birds suite, including Raven for code conversion, Pelican for validation, and Kingfisher for synthetic data generation.
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