The business intelligence Should never stagnate. BI must advance, mold, growing up, take over new influences, reach different environments and progress in their maturity. In this transition to a higher level of knowledge, more usable and better contextualized, it is inevitable that data migrations.
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As if they were partial goals in a long career, everybody data migration is a milestone in the life cycle of business intelligence. Upon reaching him You have to know how to keep what is good and get rid of what is no longer worth, of what remains, of what does not work, of everything that can generate confusion.
It may appear that the business intelligence Mature step by step, from moving data in motion, and despite this, in reality, it is a continuous advance, silent, without interruptions, where many factors are involved and every detail counts to become stronger.
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No company starts its journey and consolidates its position in the market with the same tools. As new advancements appear, as technology offers more innovative possibilities, the companies make their selection, to gain vision, to reinforce your advantages, to be more competitive.
Sometimes, purchases will be made according to a pre-established plan, but this is not the rule. Regularly updated to keep up with market demands and customer requirements., sometimes even forgetting or leaving business strategy and objectives in the background.
More or less successful investments, institutions continue their march until they realize that operations management is complicated. Integration problems, compatibility, agility or performance lead them to consider a migration.
Migration not only opens the doors to a new environment of data storage, like the cloud, or a more efficient way to store information that has been rediscovered, is the case of data storage devices; but It is a catharsis in capital letters for the business intelligence.
With each migratory movement, progress is made towards a BI:
- Backed by a much more collaborative environment.
- Improved by new rules, the proposals for a strengthened government.
- Powered by analytics that have gained in precision and agility.
Despite this, make changes to systems, introduce modifications or adaptations that may affect BI, something that, in any business, critical to success and maintaining ability to manage operations can inspire fear, even when it is known that the value of making a choice such as migration can be enormous.
Resistance to change comes from:
- The CEO, who cannot clearly see the potential of the project and shows concerned about disruptions in operations that may cause.
- The CIO, who knows that it is very likely that the initiative will end up having to deal with many more issues than anticipated Y, in the end, don't limit yourself to a data migration.
- IT staff, what is clear that errors will come to light, inconsistencies and outstanding issues that maybe he had forgotten.
- Business Users, who are not friends of technological changes and do not want faces a new challenge to its technical capabilities.
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Lose agility, Allowing errors in the quality of the data or beginning to notice the results of inaccuracy in the analysis are situations that imply a significant cost for companies. What's going on?
- Lack of update in systems and applications.
- Lack of support for new centralized and decentralized uses of data within the company.
Symptoms of existing systems, despite working, cannot support the new analytical workloads that users require. At the same time, new use cases for big data and self-service analytics support are proliferating across the company and the rapid growth of data volumes is not suitable for existing platforms.
Everybody wants to be data-driven, no one believes that their company is not data-driven, But not everyone is willing to make it easier for business intelligence to take its natural course. They impede the development of your BI, that becomes limited and loses focus, precision and efficiency. Is it important to emphasize holding on to an outdated investment? Isn't it scarier to freeze business intelligence sometime in the past?, making ripening difficult?
Planning a migration is the answer that helps to get out of the deadlock. Once the advantages are expensive, it is very easy to obtain the necessary support to continue with the initiative, but you have to be clear about one aspect: How and when to start the data migration procedure?
The change to a new BI strategy Through the migration of the organization's informational assets, can be approached in two different ways:
A / Gradual transition: this option implies the run multiple BI tools in parallel, so that during deployment, Existing BI continues to support reporting and analytics processes, while any new data project is directly related on the new platform. To opt for this modality it must be clear that:
- This approach is less risky for you What others.
- It involves a Higher cost, due to the execution of the two platforms in parallel.
- Need the determine a deadline for the legacy platform.
B / Replacement: in this circumstance we proceed to apply ETL processes (extraction, transformation and loading) Y, once finished, the original platform is removed and starts working exclusively with the new. The advantage of this alternative, from the point of view of business intelligence, the thing is Maximum performance is achieved from the moment the migration procedure is complete.. Despite this, to select this replacement option, some points should be paid attention, What:
- More preparation is needed before data migration begins.
- Operations can be interrupted some time.
- Necessary plan test actions correctly to ensure that once work starts on the new platform or with the new warehouse, there will be no problems affecting productivity.
To boost the potential of business intelligence Work is needed to drive scalability and speed of systems and applications, to ensure that all commercial users can access the data they need to consume in optimal conditions of authorized access and, anyway, do it by looking for the economy in the chosen solutions. . Migration enables companies to achieve these goals and, at the same time, do it in optimal conditions, balancing the level of risk the CIO is comfortable with and the need to move forward.
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