Eviden Modern Data Platform Assessment

Eviden has proven in-depth knowledge and experience of executing multiple data modernization projects for customers across industries. We empower customers to make informed decisions during data platform modernization while minimizing impact on existing use cases.

Today, organizations are expected to handle a growing volume and variety of data, often in real-time, that is ingested from across enterprise systems, partners, and third-party sources. As data explosion continues, so do challenges in data management, data governance, and data quality, along with associated risk & compliance issues. Leveraging cloud-based modern data architectures, advanced analytics, and AI can assist in addressing the above challenges and improve ways to acquire, manage, store, secure, share, and use their data. Having the right data strategy in place is critical to successfully migrate to the cloud and reap the above benefits.

Eviden can assist with strategy and planning for migrating data and analytics workloads to any Azure Cloud-scale Analytics Offering on the Azure Platform. By using our Modern Data Assessment offering, customers can quickly access a wide range of advanced Azure capabilities for data ingestion, storage, processing, management, etc.

As part of this offering, Eviden can assess the maturity of the customer’s existing data landscape, no matter where the applications are located, i.e., on-premise, hybrid-cloud, or multi-cloud. Our assessment framework considers both business and IT challenges and helps identify key improvement areas to address these challenges.

3-Week Assessment Summary:

The 3-week assessment will involve extensive interactions and consultations with customers’ business and IT teams to understand their business needs, current data capabilities, and desired capabilities.

• As part of this process, we will discuss common topics affecting all stakeholders and jointly identify high-priority areas for future data platforms.
• We will conduct source landscaping including inventory preparation, data architecture analysis, and understanding of key challenges to assess organization’s readiness to take up future data platform.
• Following this, we will conduct a gap analysis exercise to identify technology, process, architectural, and operational gaps. This will involve identifying maturity of various data management disciplines and processes, shortlisting priority gaps and suggesting potential remedial actions.

Based on all the above, Eviden will come up with a detailed data strategy and transformation roadmap and recommendations for target state architecture & service delivery model.

This will include an architecture evolution roadmap to migrate to Azure analytics services with a detailed list of activities and cost-benefit analysis
We will also share guidelines on skill and capability building as part of this assessment.

Assessment Outcomes:

Eviden will create and share assessment reports covering:

• Data strategy and Charter, including high-level transformation roadmap for Azure Data Modernization
• As-Is Analysis Report document outlines the current data landscape, data management processes, and practices.
• Gap Analysis Summary Report - Data, Architecture, Processes, Skills
• Data Platform Readiness to adapt to future state.
• Target state architecture and service delivery model
• Potential Execution roadmap in alignment with Business and IT use cases

Summary: Using the Modern Data Assessment offering, Eviden can help customers develop a modern data architecture on Azure Platform to leverage Azure Analytics Services.

We offer Professional services to assess the maturity of the current data landscape and plan for modernization using reference architectures, potential automation frameworks, and Microsoft Azure best practices. Further, we assist in establishing an Enterprise Data strategy and road-mapping to modernize customers' current data estates into the Microsoft Azure environment.