LeapLogic Overview
In today’s business environment, upgrading legacy data platforms to modern cloud-native platforms or open collaboration platforms is a critical requirement for enterprises struggling with petabytes of unstructured and fast data from multiple sources. Enterprises are looking to move from legacy ETL techniques and tools because of the high cost of ownership, complex code and business logic, limited collaboration and analytics capabilities, and lowered sustainability.
The challenges posed along the modernization pursuit can be disruptive to business. It can be because of lack of documentation, end-to-end analysis of source systems and inventory, lack of skilled resources, and likewise. It can also have a huge impact on cost with overruns and inefficiency if embarked on manually. Again, the lack of end-to-end automation may also lead to uninformed decision-making and erroneous movement.
The strategic measures that help businesses to effortlessly cruise through and achieve the migration pursuit are as given here.
- Discover and align business and operational goals
- Go in phases
- Go completely cloud-native
- Keep a definite scope, avoid extensions
- Comply with security regulations
- Enable continuous observability
These strategic measures ensure zero business and end-user disruption. However, when it comes to technical and operational aspects, the following features are crucial to a seamless transition:
- Identify entire inventory, code complexity, interdependencies, etc.
- Identify and eradicate technical debt
- Ensure the right price-performance ratio through capacity planning
- Choosing the right target-native services as per your use case
- Leveraging other target-native services for data migration, metadata, monitoring, etc.
- Enable infrastructure as code
- Plan a smooth cut-over