Overview
- The time to experience the benefits of the cloud is now. But transitioning from a legacy data warehouse, ETL, or analytics system that’s lasted decades is no small task.
- A traditional approach to workload modernization will get the job done – but it involves substantial time and cost, with a high risk of human error.
- We’ve found that automation enables enterprises to make the transformation journey 4x faster, with lower cost and lower risk.
“75% of enterprises experience cost overruns during cloud migration and 38% are behind their planned cloud migration timeline.”
– McKinsey & CompanyThe modernization conundrum
The cloud offers enterprises unmatched scalability, elasticity, agility, and cost benefits. But when you’ve spent years of effort on creating customized business logic, workflows, and execution rules, the transformation journey seems tricky.
Business risks
Business/end-user disruption
Incomplete view of the legacy codebase
Spiralling costs and poor ROI
Inability to meet performance SLAs
Strategy uncertainties
Migrating workloads as-is vs. complete reengineering
Migrating manually vs. leveraging automation
Building an in-house solution vs. hiring a migration partner
On-ground challenges
Handling native data warehouse properties at a schema level
Transforming complex code and logs
Handing technical debt
Operationalizing migrated workloads on the target
Managing people and processes
Case in point
We’ve found that automation helps companies of all kinds simplify and fast-track their modernization journey, save costs, and realize their cloud goals with ease.
4x
Faster transformation
50%
Cost savings
20%
SLA improvement
30%
Performance improvement
A global enterprise technology provider wanted to convert their Teradata workloads to an Azure-Databricks stack for reducing maintenance costs and enhancing scalability and agility. They auto-transformed 90% of their BTEQ scripts, improved SLAs by 20% and ensured seamless transformation with zero business disruption.
A Fortune 500 mortgage lender wanted to move their Netezza-based enterprise data warehouse to an AWS-based data lake to reduce licensing and maintenance costs and achieve faster time-to-market. They auto-migrated ∼1 TB historical data (and up to 4 GB incremental data per day), lowered operational costs, and improved data visibility across the enterprise.
…And these are just the tip of the iceberg!
Choose the fastest, smartest path
There are many paths to workload modernization – starting afresh in the cloud, building a modernization solution in-house, migrating manually, or adopting automation for end-to-end transformation. Here’s a look at how manual and automated migration (with LeapLogic) stack up against each other.
Manual
Manual migration involves moving piece by piece to transform complex, highly technical systems
Months, if not years
Automation
LeapLogic’s automated technology removes up to 95% of the manual work—meaning migrations and modernizations don’t rely on human hands to get the job done
4x faster than traditional methods
Manual
Long time frames mean larger costs, and possibilities for human error require more time to troubleshoot—adding up to increased budgets
$$$$
Automation
Automated conversion and mitigated risks means faster, less expensive transformations, giving you better time to market and ROI
2x lower than traditional methods
Manual
Manual transformation, risk of human error—it’s as straightforward as that
Low
Automation
More automation means fewer errors—and the added bonus of data and insights tailored to your system
High
Manual
Many paths to modernization are missing clear documentation, guidelines, validation, and visibility into migration strategies
Low & generic
Automated
LeapLogic’s automation approach is data-driven every step of the way, presenting assessments, recommendations, and best practices optimized for your systems.
High & personalized
Manual
Lift-and-shift approaches aren’t designed for your business needs—and can actually increase costs down the road
Low
Automated
Systems analyses at every step delivers efficiency improvements—giving both your system and your team top-notch capabilities
High
Manual
Some traditional modernizations are only meant for certain systems or architectures, and you’re paying for the transition without any additional support
Short-term
Automated
Whether you’re modernizing one business unit or your whole enterprise, LeapLogic can handle the task—at scale.
Long-term
Manual
Manual migration involves moving piece by piece to transform complex, highly technical systems
Months, if not years
Automation
LeapLogic’s automated technology removes up to 95% of the manual work—meaning migrations and modernizations don’t rely on human hands to get the job done
4x faster than traditional methods
Manual
Long time frames mean larger costs, and possibilities for human error require more time to troubleshoot—adding up to increased budgets
$$$$
Automation
Automated conversion and mitigated risks means faster, less expensive transformations, giving you better time to market and ROI
2x lower than traditional methods
Manual
Manual transformation, risk of human error—it’s as straightforward as that
Low
Automation
More automation means fewer errors—and the added bonus of data and insights tailored to your system
High
Manual
Many paths to modernization are missing clear documentation, guidelines, validation, and visibility into migration strategies
Low & generic
Automated
LeapLogic’s automation approach is data-driven every step of the way, presenting assessments, recommendations, and best practices optimized for your systems.
High & personalized
Manual
Lift-and-shift approaches aren’t designed for your business needs—and can actually increase costs down the road
Low
Automated
Systems analyses at every step delivers efficiency improvements—giving both your system and your team top-notch capabilities
High
Manual
Some traditional modernizations are only meant for certain systems or architectures, and you’re paying for the transition without any additional support
Short-term
Automated
Whether you’re modernizing one business unit or your whole enterprise, LeapLogic can handle the task—at scale.
Long-term
Automated migration with LeapLogic can simplify and accelerate the modernization of data warehouses, ETL, and analytics
Adopt best practices, experience best results.
to help you address common challenges and de-risk your modernization journey:
Plan for a phased migration rather than a ‘big bang’ approach
Consider all workloads, including DML, orchestrator, and analytics scripts, and reporting queries
Identify and analyze complex interdependencies between all workloads
Bucket workloads into units for as-is migration, optimization, or complete refactoring
Assess analytics usage patterns and map the conversion target for each usage pattern
Identify optimization opportunities at the schema, code, and execution level
Transform the core business logic to cloud-native wrappers or orchestrators
Validate complex ETL and analytics scripts to ensure they are target-equivalent
Ensure execution on staging and prod. environments after system integration testing
Accelerate modernization with LeapLogic
75% of legacy data workloads can be migrated as-is with intelligent schema transformation automation
15% workloads might require additional optimization because of certain anti-patterns or absence of direct equivalent in the target environment
10% workloads require complete re-engineering based on target nuances or for better resource consumption patterns on the target
Leave fears behind and leap to your cloud-native future
