End-to-End Migration Services
Next Pathway provides a comprehensive range of “end-to-end” migration services, designed to support and guide our clients from planning to production cut over.
Superior Cloud Migration Services
Superior Cloud Migration Services
Clients that engage in our services will benefit from our years of experience, superior cloud migration software, robust knowledgebase of best practices and the comfort that they are working with a partner that has successfully migrated hundreds of companies to the cloud.
Expert Migration Professional Services from Planning to Cut Over
Migration Planning & Set-Up
Next Pathway’s Migration Planning Toolkit ensures your migration plan is both time efficient and cost effective. The goal is to develop a comprehensive plan and identify any potential risks/issues that may delay your production deployment.
Our Migration Planning and Set-Up services include:
- Project Governance, including RACI, Team Model, Project Plan, Communication Strategy and Budget
- Sizing of the cloud environment working in collaboration with your cloud platform partner
- Reference Architecture Review
- Data Migration Plan, and preparations for Proof of Concepts to test various data strategies
- Code Translation Plan including analysis of your legacy code and development of the optimal wave plan to expedite testing and cutover
- Testing Plan
- Identification of key risks/issues and mitigation strategies
- Parallel Run, Delta-Catchup, and Cut-Over strategy
- Ongoing Technical Training of staff and support
Data Migration
When migrating legacy workloads to a cloud target, one of the critical aspects of the migration is moving your historical data. Our data migration planning activities include a thorough review of how your historical data will be migrated and the ongoing ingestion of data into the cloud target.
Our Data Migration Services include:
- Categorization of data tables by functionality
- Identification of bandwidth requirements/resource constraints
- Estimation of network bandwidth for optimal throughput
- Execution of multiple POCs to test various extraction options
- Data validation and integrity strategy
Integration & System Testing
Migration testing can be daunting. Next Pathway takes charge of planning and overseeing integration and system testing. Clients will be able to leverage our vast knowledge base, giving them confidence that testing complex legacy systems will be performed with a high degree of integrity and coverage.
Our Integration and System Testing Services include:
- Development of Test Strategy, considering data, ETL pipelines and downstream reporting
- Management of testing team
- Test case development (test scenarios and test cases)
- Simulation of test data
- Test execution and dashboard reporting
- Defect triage methodology
Implementation & Cut Over
Getting your cloud data warehouse ready for production involves multiple activities, both in terms of operational preparation, environment tuning, performance optimization and triaging/resolving issues during parallel run.
Our Implementation and Cut Over Services include:
- Internal team readiness and technical training
- Support model implementation
- Final Readiness Assessment
- Bi Report Repoint/Rewrite factory and testing
- Parallel Run set-up and execution
- Defect triage during Parallel Run
- Environment optimization
- Code performance turning
- Executive Dashboard reporting