Modern Data Warehouse: 1 week assessment

This assessment gives you a clear picture of the Azure Data Warehouse solution and its implementation in your IT infrastructure, developed in three main steps:

1. ENVISIONING You will get an overview about the state-of-the-art of the Azure Data Platform offering: both new and well-established services, common problems that could arise and how to solve them. Also, security will be a pivotal topic throughout the whole session, both in general and service-specific terms. The envisioning session will have a practical approach, with real-world use cases and best practices from field experience.

2. ASSESSMENT The second step will consists in gathering information about the actual data ecosystem of the customer, like: • database services and data sources currently in use • types of workload • ETL/ELT processes • access and security requirements • pain points of the actual solution • desired improvements • constraints to keep in mind

3. PROPOSAL Gathered data will then be used to design one or more proposals to move the actual architecture to Azure, or to host in Azure a brand new one (depending on what the customer is asking for). Such proposals will include: • a conceptual schema of the solution • a descriptive list of the service which compose the architecture • the reasons that led to such choices • any pros, cons, and attention points • a possible range of monthly cost to maintain the solution.