Transforming legacy systems with an advanced data stack
Aging monolithic systems limit what a business can attempt, and replacing them is rarely a technology decision on its own. Frank Gill of Fortified Data and Jeff Cook of Pinnacle Solutions walk through how organizations move from a legacy estate to a modern data architecture, and what it costs them to get it wrong.
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What the session covers
- A step-by-step route off the legacy estate. The sequence for moving to a modern data architecture, rather than a target state with no path to it.
- What an advanced data stack is made of. Cloud platforms, data lakes, ETL and ELT tooling, and the governance framework that decides whether any of it can be trusted.
- The failure modes, and how to avoid them. The problems that recur in legacy modernization projects and the ways teams reduce the risk rather than accepting it.
- Case studies, including what was learned the hard way. Real modernization projects, what succeeded, and the lessons that only came out afterwards.
- Building for the next change, not this one. Strategies for a data infrastructure that stays agile after the migration everybody is currently focused on.
Who it is for
IT directors and CIOs
Leading a transformation program and accountable for whether the modernization half of it lands.
Data architects and engineers
Doing the migration and designing what the estate looks like on the other side of it.
Business leaders
Who need the data to support a decision and have found that the current systems will not give it to them.
After the session
Modernization as an engagement
The session is a roadmap, and a roadmap assumes you know where you are starting from. Most estates that need modernizing have accumulated enough undocumented dependency that the starting point is itself a piece of work.
That is the first thing an assessment establishes, and it is the reason the order of a modernization rarely matches the order anybody planned.
- Data modernization. The consulting engagement this session describes.
- Migrations and upgrades. Moving a production estate without the downtime the session warns about.
- More sessions. Every recorded webinar, all free and all published in full.
Start from where the estate actually is
A modernization plan built on an inventory nobody has verified is a plan that changes in month two. An assessment produces the inventory first, which is slower to start and considerably faster to finish.
Let us show you what's possible.
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