Digital Transformation

IT Challenge:

• Customers are demanding more and more digital solutions to support their devices imposing rapid change in IT Development, Infrastructure and Operations.
• DevOps collaboration with Agile Methodologies can barely keep up with the demand for new applications.
• Older systems are parked off to the side of the IT Roadmap widening the gap between existing and planned IT services.

Solution

• Bridge from old to new by generating a series of DataNovata applications to supply digital access to aging data systems.
• Gradually phase out the analog systems as your enterprise advances through its digital transformation journey.

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Accessible Archiving

IT Challenge:

• Data compliance and customer services require many years of historical data to be available.

• Easily-retrievable archive data formats are not available for all applications.

• Easily-retrievable archive data formats are not available for all applications.

• IT has to be in a state of readiness to provide access to archived data.

• Some system workloads are inflated because of the lack of an accessible archiving solution.

Solution

• Use DataNovata applications to provide a customizable application front-end to any archive data storage, without requiring constant IT support.
• Each DataNovata application viewer maintains a secure audit trail with data compliance features to manage the requirements of 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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Data Modernization

IT Challenge:

• Interpretation of data from core applications is restricted by the data structure and dbms.
• Modern systems are not reverse-compatible with older.
• Modernizing older systems appears more complex than the perceived economic value.
• The enterprise cannot fully embrace digital transformation.

Solution

• Extract the database from its source application to an rdbms.
• Use DataNovata to create an xml blueprint.
• Add foreign keys using simple scripts within the Data Architect module to build a better view of the data within a modern application viewer.
• Consolidate multiple databases for better inquiry, reporting and analysis.

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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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