Data Migration Services, Migration Services, Migration Consulting Services

Migrate with Guaranteed Business Continuity

GrayMatter practices a thorough approach from pre-migration to post-migration activities to ensure zero disruption to business continuity with its data migration services.

Pertaining to Data Migration Services following are GrayMatter’s advocated best practices:

Assess the needs of organization, processes and technology in the to-be state with data migration services
Review of existing landscape, including inventory of existing BI content and user activity profile
Determine scope of migration including business units, departments, functional areas and BI content
Define downtime tolerance limits, parallel run with old system, migration timeframe, security concerns with new system
Complete migration roadmap and detailed plans for each phase
Build of new environments, software installation and customization
Migration of existing content and conversion wherever necessary
Validation of migrated content, security and performance of new system
Validate interfaces of new system with other systems in landscape
Comprehensive technical and business user training

Get Seamless Migration with Zero Downtime!

Challenges:

Reports to be migrated comprised of either a single query, dual query or more
The original report queries contained pre-defined parameter names that do not allow the user to execute, unless a valid value is assigned
Certain reports needed to display column values based on certain conditions
Integration of existing security model to Pentaho

Solution:

Identifying the adhoc parameter values that need to be substituted in the queries, by picking them from the Actuate interface
Designing the report using the Pentaho Report designer, by specifying the working query and by following the template design required.
Editing the reports using Pentaho Report Designer to accept parameters from the user, Jndi name, etc.

Benefits:

Client could offer complete Analytical solutions to their Insurance Clients who can generate their own reports and perform various analysis using Pentaho BI tool
Multi-tenant architecture allows them to support users across different organizations with a single instance of Pentaho
Sircon could migrate all their 600 operational reports within very quick time
Users across 16 client states, accessing a total data volume over half a terabyte

Challenges:

Limitations in connectivity with current version of SAP BI 3.x
Need for mobile reports, unavailable in current version
Unavailability of advanced visualization of data

Solution:

Migrated 44 reports (10 complex reports with multiple queries) 6 related universes, 17 dashboards and 25 users from 3.1 sp6 to 4.1 sp5, in 8 weeks
Business Objects installation in Four (Mock Server/Development/Quality/Production) environments and Solman integration with Business Objects.
Audit database enabled in Production environment, Audit universe and reports enabled
Created new audit reports to identify the system usage

Benefits:

New features which include integrated platform monitoring, advanced auditing capabilities, supportability and root cause analysis and a 64-bit server architecture
Better integration with SAP BW, new dimensional semantic layer and multi-source universes
Improved performance, scalability and reliability
Provided enhanced dashboards to business users with self-service capabilities and enhanced collaboration

Challenges:

Any BW objects that were created and developed in BW development system were tested only in the development system and straight away moved to BW Production system. This caused for many issues to occur as testing was not done properly due to the absence of a dedicated BW Quality system which led to numerous issue fixing in Development and Production.
In the event of occurrence of an unforeseen contingency in BW Production system, there was no fall back system to serve as an acting BW Production system until the primary BW Production system is fixed. This impacted the business decision making in a significant manner as all the dashboards and reports would be offline until the BW Production system is fixed.
Being on SAP BW 7.0, Malaysia Airports was 3 versions behind and was missing on the latest features being offered by SAP

Solution:

A new environment for quality was created which was a copy of the existing BW Production system with validation by system integration test to ensure that the data in the BW quality system was exactly the same as it is in BW Production system
The existing database for Development and Production was Oracle 11G which also had to be upgraded to Oracle 12C to suit BW 7.4
BW system was upgraded to BW 7.4 over a period of three days

Benefits:

Introduction of a quality system led to reduced number of issues in production
The quality system serves as a failover back up for the production system
With the new BW Quality system running on BW 7.4 Malaysia Airports has access to the latest features such as Composite Provider, Hybrid Provider, and Advanced DSO as well as ready compatibility with HANA

Challenges:

Sub-optimal performance due to tool limitations
Lack of in-house skill on SAP Design Studio

Solution:

Adopted a rapid prototyping approach
Migrated 30 dashboards with 400+ KPIs
Implemented custom components in SAP Design Studio for functionalities available in Xcelsius

Benefits:

Enabled executives consume insights on the new tool seamlessly
Reduced initial load time from 32 seconds to 8 seconds a 4x improvement in performance
Usage of custom components meant that business users continued to have familiar controls, leading to seamless adoption

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Data Migration Services

When moving to a new system built in-house or purchased from a vendor, in any case, data migration is a key factor. Surveys indicate that 20 – 40% of the cost of any new system project is dedicated to migrating data from legacy systems to the new application. We understand this.Hence, Gray Matter data migration services makes your data move as fast and as smooth as possible by employing a feature-rich data migration framework and established methodology.

Our data migration services possess a coherent strategy comprised of a structured methodology, robust toolset and specialist expertise to initiate successful, on-time and high quality data migration services. Our world class team with in-depth experience deliver data migration which leads to increased data quality and reduced risk to continued business operations.

Gray Matter with its extensive experience in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Dashboards assists you with seamlessly integrating and leveraging the Qlik. We offer broad range of services to help our clients to analyse and migrate data efficiency using our Qlik support. We help with implementing, enhancing and maintaining Qlik based Business Intelligence and Analytics. We are proficient in managing Qlik environment ensuring high availability , high performance and seamless data migration services.

Let us see how do we go about it:

Establish data migration processes using templates and guides
Identify legacy sources and drive specification of requirements for data migration
Generate profiles of data sets and drive analytics
Identify and implement data inadequacy detection rules
Drive data validation processes

It’s time to focus on project resources and business functionalities by lowering your data migration costs and delivering excellence on time, within budget.