SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric Migration: 4-Week Assessment

Digital business transformations demand applications that deliver high performance and resilience. Over the years, enterprises that have developed business-critical applications with SQL Server are now facing challenges in terms of scalability and performance.

Microsoft Fabric's unified data services, with the options of OneLake medallion architecture, Delta tables, and Synapse Data Warehouse, provide the right capabilities to align with the immediate and long-term business needs for a rapid transition to the cloud.

WinWire's Migration-as-a-Service (MaaS) framework and WinSQL, based on Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework principles, are helping customers modernize their SQL Server landscape to Microsoft Fabric efficiently by bringing together well-defined processes and toolsets to facilitate seamless migration.

WinWire’s SQL Server Migration Assessment Methodology

• Analyze - Assess current SQL Server data estate and the features leveraged for the application or Data Warehouse / Data Mart
• Architect – Architecture definition and data migration approach; Microsoft Fabric data services setup for pilot
• Pilot – Automate migration for identified schema with MaaS and WinSQL toolkits.
• Migration Scale-out Plan - Define the roadmap and scale out plan for the migration of SQL Server Data Warehouse and Data Marts to OneLake and Synapse Data Warehouse based data platform. .

Business Value

• Lower risk of migration with fact based and automated assessment of SQL Server estate
• Up to 30% cost savings through automation
• Better control over the migration process with dashboard-based tracking
• Unified data and analytics services with cutting edge capabilities like unstructured data management, Spark processing, data governance, AI-ML & OpenAI

Key Deliverables

• Assessment and review of the current SQL Server landscape and features
• Architecture recommendation with OneLake based Data Lakehouse and/or Synapse data warehouse / data mart.
• Enterprise rollout plan and migration approach to Microsoft Fabric
• Business value summary with TCO and ROI for establishing business case.

Leverage our rapid 4-week pilot solution and experience the value of unified experience while migrating from SQL Server applications and data warehouse /marts to Microsoft Fabric.