HCL Solution of Data Estate Migration and Modernization (ADvantage Migrate) is a comprehensive one-stop solution for Data platform built, Data Estate Migration and Modernization service, help to modernize and migrate the Databases, ETL/ELT, Datawarehouse, Business Intelligence from legacy technologies/ OnPrem to Azure.

This is a technology agnostic service and consists of HCL expert services, proven processes, and HCL Data assessment, migration, and validation tools/accelerators. This service help in modernizing Data & Analytics ecosystem to Azure in a faster, cheaper way while meeting all the compliance requirements.

The solution assists in unified analytics and governance, amplified human output, and faster business outcomes by leveraging the following key components:

1. HCL Expert Services

2. Three Step Automation with Pre-Engineered HCL Products

(ADvantage Gateway Suite, ADvantage Sketch and ADvantage Gatekeeper)

Timelines:

Timelines will depend upon the scope of work and the complexity of the environment.

Legacy technologies supported for modernization:

This solution is completely technology-agnostic. An illustrative list of technologies is depicted below:

1. Oracle Exadata

2. Teradata

3. IBM Data Stage

4. IBM Netezza

5. IBM DB2

6. Hadoop

7. Informatica

8. IBM Cognos

9. Oracle BI

10. SAP Business Objects

etc

Scope:

The scope of work includes (but is not limited to)

1. Assessment of existing Data Landscape:

a. Lineage dependency analysis

b. Target specific recommendations

c. Capacity planning

2. Transforming the Data

a. Transform DML, DDL, Procedures, ETL, Jobs, Reports

b. Packaging using cloud-native wrappers

c. Ensuring Repeatability and Extendibility

3. Validating the Data

Pipeline-based validation includes:

a. Schema and Metadata

b. Code base

c. Pre and post Data processing

4. Execution

a. Executable package with Cloud Native orchestrators

b. Parallel execution

c. CI/CD and transition support