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Intelligence Checklist

A step-by-step checklist for enterprises preparing their legacy estate for a Migration or Modernization. 

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What Next Pathway's Intelligence Checklist covers

Before a Migration or Modernization begins, you need to know exactly what's in your estate. This checklist walks the three phases that get you there — a full-estate scan, a unified Enterprise Intelligence Graph, and SLMs trained on it. Any source, any target.

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The Foundation: Full-Estate Scan

Our SLMs scan the four layers of your legacy estate: column-level ETL logic parsed from source code, semantic meaning and lineage traced from actual data flow, real access and usage behavior, and the documents and SOPs around the code. Every table, job, report, and dependency cataloged — nothing gets missed downstream.

Unify: The Enterprise Intelligence Graph

Everything scanned in Phase 1 resolves into a single governed graph. Logic, meaning, behavior, and knowledge merged into one contextual model, with cross-system relationships reconstructed from how data actually flows. Access rules built into the graph from day one, not bolted on later.

Train & Choose Your Path

SLMs trained directly on your graph, validated against hundreds of real migrations rather than synthetic data. From here you can take either path — Migration, where SLMs transform, test, and deploy translated code to your target platform, or Modernization, where they map, define, and build certified data products. Both lead to AI readiness.

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Faster time-to-market for AI-ready infrastructure

Latest Cloud Migration Case Study

Next Pathway successfully migrated a leading Canadian pension fund's Enterprise Data Warehouse from SSIS to dbt on Snowflake, delivering a modern, scalable, and AI-ready data platform.

Read the case study to see how Next Pathway delivered:

6-month enterprise data warehouse modernization
152 dbt models generated from 96 SSIS packages
Modern data pipelines powered by Snowflake and Apache Airflow
Cloud-native architecture designed for analytics, governance, and AI
Modernizing a Leading Pension Fund’s EDW From SSIS to dbt on Snowflake

What Industry Analysts Say

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Rob Enderle

ENDERLE GROUP

"Next Pathway is providing a solution that accelerates the migration process, giving organizations a faster route to realizing value from their data."
Eric Kavanagh
Eric Kavanagh

THE BLOOR GROUP

"SHIFT Cloud enables a remarkably swift and robust transition from traditional data warehousing to the cloud."

What a Structured Cloud Migration Covers

A successful cloud migration requires a clear plan across four disciplines — any source, any target.

Discovery and dependency mapping

Every table, job, report, and dependency scanned and cataloged into one contextual intelligence layer — column-level ETL logic, semantic model and lineage, real access and usage logs, and the documents and SOPs around the code. Partial visibility creates surprises later.

ETL strategy and sequencing

Decide upfront whether pipelines are rewritten natively or repointed, and base scope and sequencing on actual access and lineage data rather than assumptions. This single decision changes effort across the whole migration.

Automated code translation

Legacy SQL, stored procedures, and complex ETL translated automatically onto your target platform, following its native syntax and conventions. 100% automated code coverage, zero manual intervention, 100% of core business logic preserved.

Testing, parity, and cutover

Build the test plan before any code is translated. Automated testing frameworks and data validation prove 1:1 functional parity before production — with business users and SMEs defining success criteria so parity is judged against real usage.

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