MOVING ON
MIGRATING SAS
TO THE CLOUD .
THE WAY TO ASCENDANCE.
Massive additional workloads
Lack of expertise
Need to restructure teams
Reluctance to change
With our guidance you can avoid:
It could be easier with directions on
WHAT
WHY CLOUD
MIGRATION VALUE
HOW
In reality, this is not the case. It can be logically split into a number of workloads.
SAS is usually perceived as a solid monolithic platform used for analytical workloads.
WHAT IS SAS?
TIP OF THE ICEBERG.

Advanced Analytics

Reporting

User Sandbox

Process Support / Integration

Data Storage

Data Management / ETL

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06.
ISSUES WITH LEGACY PLATFORM.
High cost of owhership
Substantial operational risks
Missing capabilities
Lack of governance
TARGET PLATFORM.
Shared Infrastructure
Operational Framework
Biz Units & Processes
Tech Solutions / Workloads
02.
01.
03.
04.
Open, transparent and governed

Supports all types of workloads

Modular and extensible

Elastic
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MIGRATION VALUE.
Cost efficiency
Processes optimization
Risk reduction
Platform modernization
Migrating from on-prem legacy environment to the cloud allows to drastically cut costs and leads to better financial results
Migration opens up an opportunity to closely examine established processes, identify inefficiencies and address them
An organization becomes more flexible and agile
Moving from the old solutions allows to use the most recent technologies available in the market
HOW TO
GET THERE?
MIGRATIONAL
APPROACES.
Replatforming is one-to-one technical migration without any incremental changes or improvements. It is simple and straightforward, but is not sufficient in terms of returns and doesn't mitigate the problems an organization has
Unlike replatfomring, refactoring combines migration and optimization. It yields better performance compared the replatforming, but is riskier and harder to implement. It also fails to solve the governance problem
Redesign is a complete system overhaul. Potentially it leads to the best possible performance and allows to solve the majority of problems, but is extremely costly and almost impossible to pull off in a timely fashion
rePlatforming
reFactoring
reDesign
Medium
Costs
High
Low
T1A Approach
rePlatform
reFactor
reDesign
Governance
Op risks
Capabilities
Talent Retention
Migration Risks
High
High
Low
High
Low
High
High
Low
Low
Low
Low
Low
Low
1-to-1 lift & shift technical migration
Local optimizations through recoding
Full platform
re-implementation from scratch
MIGRATION METHODOLOGIES COMPARISON.
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CONSULTATION.

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