Data Warehouse Modernization

The rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure and software services is driving a tectonic shift in enterprise IT. That shift is causing organizations to reexamine their data warehousing technology, seeking solutions that are more than just conventional software repackaged in the cloud. Data Fidelity delivers cloud data warehouse solutions for clients across a wide spectrum of industries and completely understand their data and analytics in order to transform their business.

Any organization that depends on data to better serve their customers, streamline their operations and lead their industry will benefit from a cloud data warehouse. Unlike massive, traditional data warehouses, the cloud means businesses big and small can size their data warehouse to meet their needs and their budget, and dynamically grow and contract their system as things change from day-to-day and year-to-year.

Nearly all of a company’s data is stored in a multitude of disparate databases. The key questions to ask are: How accessible is that data? How much will it cost to extract, store, and analyze all of your data? And, what will happen if you don’t? This is where data warehousing comes into play.

What customers are doing with the cloud data warehouse?

Gaming company replaced Hadoop + SQL database with Snowflake
Consumer retailer modernizing DW by replacing the legacy appliance with Cloud Datawarehouses
Market research company consolidated data marts to reduce costs and data silos
Mobile analytics company shares live data with clients

The criteria for selecting a cloud data warehouse

When you’re in the market for a data warehouse, a checklist of criteria will help determine which alternative best meets your needs.

Supports Existing Skills, Tools, and Expertise
Saves Your Organization Money
Provides Data Resiliency and Recovery
Secures Data at Rest and in Transit
Streamlining the data pipeline
Optimizes Your Time to Value

Why customers choose cloud data warehouse?

Performance

Multi petabyte-scale, up to the 200x faster performance and 1/10th the cost

Concurrency

Multiple groups access data simultaneously with no performance degradation

Simplicity

Fully managed with a pay-as-you-go model. Works on any data.

Complete SQL database

Supports the tools millions of business users already know how to use today.

Zero management

Reduces complexity with the built-in performance so there’s no infrastructure to tweak, no knobs to turn and no tuning required.

Data sharing

Direct, governed and secure data sharing within seconds so enterprises can easily forge one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships.

How can we help

Many organizations we engage with are seriously considering transforming their business and moving some (or all) of their IT operations into the cloud. A lot of executives we have encountered are struggling with the same question: “How do we get started?” There is a strong case to be made that starting with your Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), or at least a data mart, is the fastest, and most risk-free path, with added upside potential to increase revenue and set you up for future growth.

Doesn’t disrupt the business

Many EDW implementations are not mission-critical today (as compared to enterprise applications). As more data becomes available through social media or Internet of Things (IOT) applications, businesses need access to much larger volumes of data and they will want access to it earlier in the data pipeline. Traditional DWs contain aggregations and are used for doing trend analysis, analyzing data over a period of time to make strategic, rather than tactical decisions. They are not architected to handle this new influx of raw data in a cost-effective manner. By starting your cloud journey with the EDW, you reduce risk (by going to a more flexible architecture) while getting your team early exposure to working with cloud services.

Doesn’t disrupt internal users

When moving to the cloud, you want to show incremental success and don’t want to add a lot of unnecessary risks. It’s simple to keep running your existing EDW in parallel with your new cloud DW, giving you a built-in fall-back plan for the early stages. Or you may decide to start with a small data mart as a pilot project.

Start-up costs are a fraction of on-premises, appliance solutions

Some of our customers spent a lot years ago on a data warehouse appliance that is now outdated technologically. And the renewal costs to keep that tech going are coming due. If they re-invest another huge sum of money, this will delay them getting to the cloud by another 4-5 years, putting them behind their competition. Rather than outlaying a large capital expenditure to extend the life of the older technology, it may make better sense to move to the cloud. The cloud offers a utility-based model, allowing you to pay for what you use and when you use it, as opposed to what you think you are going to need 2-3 years in the future. As a result, not only is the cost of entry lower, but you are not risking a huge sum of money to make the move.

Data is growing at an exponential rate

Will you ever have fewer data to worry about in your business? If you plan on being successful, I don’t think so. Many organizations are looking at new and different ways to manage and analyze ever-increasing volumes of data coming in various formats from multiple sources (such as semi-structured weblogs). Your current on-premises EDW was not designed for this kind of workload or data. If you are considering changing infrastructure platforms to accommodate it, why not select tools that were built for today’s modern data challenges instead of legacy-based architectures? Moving to the cloud also gives you the opportunity to consolidate operations and streamline business processes.

Enable new capability

There are some new analytic paradigms happening in the cloud (such as machine learning). Cloud-based platforms allow you to work with both detailed and aggregated data at scales never imaged. Need to run a complex analytic job with a 256-node Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) cluster for an hour, and then shut it down? No problem. Can your platform support a thousand users without concurrency issues? How would that change your business if it could dynamically adjust to handle those new demands?

Time to move forward

Data warehousing has been rethought and reborn in the cloud for the modern, data-driven organization. Find out how you can challenge the status quo and become an IT champion that creates the future, giving users the benefits they dream of with data warehousing built for the cloud.

Take the next step toward writing the next chapter of your organization’s data warehousing history.