Data Migration 🚀
Braxton Analytics has completed 50+ data migration projects. Many times data migration is moving legacy solutions from an on-prem system to the cloud in some capacity. Said another way, its modernizing a data infrastructure from an old system to a newer, more cost effective and sustainable solution. Braxton Analytics has the experience and roadmap to modernize your data infrastructure.
Modernizing your data infrastructure can help push your business forward and drive data driven decisions. Old legacy systems cost data teams time and money and deepen the opportunity cost that could be spent building new data integrations that lead to better data driven decisions.
Plan it.
Part of data migrations are outlining what needs to be migrated from the old platform to the new platform. Scoping out existing processes, reports, and the source tables that populate the reports is one step. Another step is outlining the tool that you are going to migrate to, why you are picking that tool and why you are leaving the old tool. Its the old saying, if you don’t know where you came from then you don’t know where you are going. Last part of data migration planning is what is the sunset plan for the old system? Is there a hard cut off date, is there a period of time where both platforms are going to run, is there a validation system in place? All of these questions need to be answered before committing to a data migration project.
Migrate it.
Once the questions are answered, then development can begin on migrating off an old platform an into a new platform. You can build the pipelines, rebuild the reports, and rebuild the business processes leveraging the new system. You can also take advantage of redundant tasks and consolidate pipelines, tables and reports where necessary. This process limits technical debt and mitigates confusion within the new platform. Finally, you can start to build and enhance processes once everything is migrated and the business stakeholders feel empowered to get more insights from the data on the new platform.