Planning a successful transition from one environment to another requires considerable planning and rigorous preparation. This could involve moving infrastructure, data, applications, or even a complete system. Effective migration planning helps decrease risks, ensure a smooth transition, and minimize downtime when switching to a new cloud provider, software version, or shifting data centres.
For all Oracle on-premises applications, including back-office programs like Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and Hyperion as well as sector-specific solutions like Oracle Retail Merchandising and FLEXCUBE1, OCI offers enhanced performance and availability, up to 39% lower TCO, and simpler migration.
Applications shouldn’t be considered in isolation in order to get the most out of your cloud environment. You want a thorough cloud roadmap that directs all of your choices and aids in setting up cloud infrastructure prior to moving workloads.
When you work with us, you receive a thorough design manual and clear roadmap. Depending on your company’s demands, select a hybrid, private, or public cloud. To determine the cost of your cloud implementation options, evaluate what-if scenarios. Planning for capacity and elasticity ensures that your new environment has the storage space and scalability your workloads require. You can meet important criteria by using compliance profiling. Your cloud infrastructure will offer the essential dependencies that your workloads require thanks to dependency mapping.
| ASSESSMENT DELIVERABLES | DESCRIPTION |
| Target Analysis (Hybrid, Private, Public) | Cost comparison and suggestions for the best locations to run your workloads are provided. |
| Capacity and Elasticity planning | Buildings are flexible enough to scale up or down to accommodate possible changes in capacity arguments. |
| Application profiling | To better understand dependencies, score, and plan the migration of the application, create a profile map for each application. |
| Compliance profiling | Ensuring that the architecture complies with any concerns that already exist. |
| Financial modelling | TCO comparisons that are enhanced utilizing specific cost centers and ROI calculations. |
| Adoption road map modelling | Using roadmaps, the migration process might begin with workloads that have a high readiness score or workloads that require immediate attention. |
| Hybrid modelling | If any existing data center will remain, map and plan out the best targets for workloads, including hybrid strategies. |
| Resource and competency mapping | Knowing what skills are now in use and how to adapt them to cloud technologies. |
| Software Reports | All installed software will be reported on, helping to determine the environment’s cloud readiness and PaaS score. |
Here are some important factors for a thorough migration plan:
- Define Objectives and Scope: Clearly outline the objectives of the migration and what you intend to achieve. Identify the scope of the migration, including which components or data will be moved and any constraints or limitations.
- Risk Assessment: Conduct a risk assessment to identify potential challenges and vulnerabilities during the migration process. Analyse potential impacts on data integrity, security, and downtime.
- Resource Assessment: Evaluate the resources needed for the migration, including technical expertise, tools, and infrastructure requirements. Ensure you have the necessary skills and capacity to handle the migration effectively.
- Timeline and Milestones: Develop a detailed timeline for the migration, including specific milestones and deadlines. This will help keep the project on track and provide a clear roadmap for the migration team.
- Data and Application Inventory: Create an inventory of all data, applications, and infrastructure components that will be part of the migration. Understand their dependencies and relationships.
- Data Preparations: Ensure that data is appropriately prepared and cleaned before the migration. This might include data deduplication, data validation, and format conversions.
- Testing and Validation: Set up a testing environment to verify the migration process and identify potential issues before the actual migration. This can include testing in a sandbox or staging environment.
- Communication and Stakeholder Management: Keep all stakeholders informed about the migration plan, progress, and potential impact on their operations. Address concerns and ensure proper communication channels are in place.
- Contingency and Rollback Plan: Have a contingency plan in case unexpected issues arise during migration. Also, develop a rollback plan that outlines steps to revert to the original state if needed.
- User Training and Support: Train end-users on any changes resulting from the migration and provide adequate support during and after the migration.
- Monitoring and Performance Optimization: Implement monitoring tools to track the migration process and identify performance bottlenecks. Optimize the system and configurations as needed.
- Post-Migration Evaluation: After the migration is complete, evaluate the success of the process and the achievement of objectives. Identify any lessons learned and areas for improvement.
- Compliance and Security: Ensure that the migration plan adheres to relevant compliance regulations and data security standards.
Every migration is unique, and the specific details of the planning process will vary depending on the scope and complexity of the migration. Thorough planning and collaboration with all stakeholders are essential to achieve a successful migration with minimal disruption to the business.
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