American-based multinational digital communications technology company migrates from Teradata to BigQuery

By April 19, 2023May 8th, 2023Case Study
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Objective: Better understanding of on-premise warehouse for better and effective migration planning

An american-based MNC digital communications technology corporation which delivers innovative software-defined networking and security solutions to help transform their client business, empowering an inclusive future for all. This client wanted to better leverage its data to improve customer service, operations, and insights. The modernization to Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery brings new analytics capabilities and moves decision-making nearer to real-time.

This client sought a technology partner who could help them efficiently and safely modernize and thereby leverage Google Cloud Platform cloud-native technologies.

Datametica Solutions Pvt. Ltd | American-based multinational digital communications technology company migrates from Teradata to BigQuery
Datametica Solutions Pvt. Ltd | American-based multinational digital communications technology company migrates from Teradata to BigQuery

Challenges: High technical dependency issues

The client had been experiencing a major challenge to derive technical dependencies within the existing Teradata data warehouse and they were facing multiple issues while planning the migration strategy. Due to their complex technical dependencies they were struggling in creating a wave migration plan.

Solutions: Detailed assessment for wave planning and complex dependencies

  • Datametica provided the client with a detailed assessment of the existing environment by using  Eagle- an automated assessment & data migration planning tool and provided with the detailed migration plan, along with an understanding of the current data model, ETL logic, associated workloads, pipelines, and deliverables.
  • We have generated and provided end to end entity lineage including scheduler, ETL and reporting lineage with a short span of time using Eagle tool which saved their manual efforts to derive the same.
  • Datametica has provided reports in client provided format within the same timeframe we provide Datametica format reports.
  • Performed data validation using the Datametica Automated data validation tool – Pelican tool between Teradata and BigQuery.

Client Benefits: Faster cloud migration with better planning, greatly enhanced analytics capabilities, and lower operation cost

  • Reduced operational cost and infrastructure provisioning timelines.
  • Improvement in efficiency and performance due to better migration planning.
  • Datametica solutions delivered faster cloud migration, with lower costs and lower business risk.
  • Ensured confidence in decommissioning of Teradata Warehouse with help of Pelican.

DM Product Used

Datametica Solutions Pvt. Ltd | American-based multinational digital communications technology company migrates from Teradata to BigQuery

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