Summary
In your global retail company, you had a set of database technologies that resulted from independent database administration departments choosing different technologies and the acquisition of other businesses, which brought their own systems. You wanted to both standardize and modernize your data estate. By undertaking the five stages of a data platform modernization project, you enabled an efficient migration to cloud database systems with the lowest total cost of ownership.
When dealing with business-critical applications and databases, it's crucial to execute modernization projects carefully and systematically to avoid negative impacts on user productivity, customer communications, and other important business processes. By completing the five stages of data platform modernization thoroughly, you can ensure that your project runs smoothly and your modern cloud data estate starts to yield benefits quickly.
Now that you've reviewed this module, you should be able to:
- Explain what data platform modernization is.
- Review the stages of a data migration.
- Recommend data migration resources to support data modernization efforts.