Migration Optimization

IT Challenge:

• Avoiding 'cost creep' due to the volume of historical data.
• Limiting 'scope creep' deciding what data to bring over to the new system.
• Retiring the original application quickly after migration.
• Keeping resources 'on-point' post-migration to ensure smooth clean up and transition.

What data do you really need to carry forward into the new production platform? How will this impact the length of your application migration cycle?

Solution

• Consolidate all your application data into DataNovata to define your data migration path with more clarity.
• Keep reference-only historical data within the DataNovata application for easy retrieval.
• Carry forward only active transaction data to the new system platform.
• Avoid scope creep and budget creep by stripping the migration to its bare essentials.
• Use DataNovata to consolidate and secure the historical records in an easy-to-access digital application platform.

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Application Decommissioning

IT Challenge:

• Data retention policies, traditional business practices and M&A activity have extended the use of some applications past their technology lifecycle.
• Modernization brings potential disruption, uncertainty and questionable economic advantage.
• As IT introduces new systems, the disparity between old and new stretches internal resources without a clear quantification of cost.
• IT is challenged by a paradox: to introduce efficiencies that may destabilize business user operations, with no turnkey solution to effect change across the board.

Customers of DataNovata are amazed at how much more efficient the DataNovata application is at providing data access than the source application.

Solution

• Use a DataNovata application to provide business users with enriched views of their data in a workflow they recognize.
• Host the data on a digital platform,
• Decommission the original application.
• Reduce OpEx without risking CapEx.

Customers of DataNovata are amazed at how much more efficient the DataNovata application is at providing data access than the source application.

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Data-as-a-Service

IT Challenge:

• Siloed databases and disparate data streams flow into the enterprise.
• Lakes of data are un-prepared for modeling and analysis.
• Analytics engines run below their utilization capacity.
• Data preparation is a long, drawn-out, semantic process.

Solution

• Collect multiple data sources into a single, semantic layer.
• Automate the schema analysis for immediate visualization.
• Moderate and augment the data relationships in high-level scripts.
• Analyze data flows and present use-cases that optimize the data’s commercial value.

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Mesh Application Service Architecture

IT Challenge:

• Siloed applications and monolithic architectures.
• Mixed bag of data services that lack integration.
• Legacy and digital platforms do not converse.
• Rip-and-replace costs cannot be funded.

Solution

• Mediated APIs across a portfolio of applications.
• Data-as-a-service mounted on low-cost storage.
• Managed data streams for specific service delivery.
• Seamless access to archive and production data.
• Centralized archival store on digital platform for data governance.

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Application Portfolio Rationalization

IT Challenge:

• As the organization has grown it has accumulated a variety of different applications with overlapping functions, each bearing its own cost of license and support.
• Modernization brings potential disruption, uncertainty and questionable economic advantage.
• Economic pressure is being applied to reduce overall cost of IT operations, yet vendors are not able to provide support below a reasonable margin.
• Migration of all databases into one application is a slow, methodical process of testing, executing and retraining.

Solution

• Migrate all application views into a consolidated DataNovata application.
• Set a policy that all data prior to YYYY/MM/DD will be through the consolidated application viewer.
• Decommission redundant applications.
• Continue on the strategic application platform at reduced cost.

DataNovata's data application generator gives you multiple ways to look at data relationships, to support users familiar with different application user interfaces.

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