
Planning a BI cloud migration?
Leaving legacy systems for the cloud can be daunting, time-consuming, and expensive. That’s why our modernization services offer the best of both worlds. Modernization allows you to reap long-term value from your current legacy system so you can reach your business goals quickly, affordably, and with confidence.
What does it mean to Modernize?
Modern Cloud Platform
Increased Usability
Cost Efficiency
Speed & Agility
Improved User Experience
Scalable & Autonomous Support
Optimizing the BI Legacy
Legacy BI tools and on-premises data warehouses were designed during an era when storage was expensive, and the size and shape of our processing plane were static. Our goal when building with these tools was simple: reduce data movement, duplication, and churn. We ended up building data models that were difficult to express without complicated semantic models and metadata catalogs, requiring expensive enterprise BI tools that are now hard to remove. Modernization offers a leveraged solution.
Our years of experience transitioning organizations to the cloud has allowed us to build an approach that offers an integrated solution. We introduce a triage process using the MoSCoW method that allows us to work with stakeholders to understand the relative value of core data and analytics content.
Why should you avoid traditional migrations?
Avoid Obsolete Data Models
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- Propagation of physical data models that emphasis data thrift and require complicated join patterns
- Complicated and inflexible metadata catalogs so users can understand the physical models
Avoid Impractical Dashboards
Reimplementations of reports and dashboards that decision-makers don’t particularly like or even use
Avoid Antiquated Visuals
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- A subpar user experience that isn’t aligned with new concepts in data storytelling and visualization
What is the MoSCoW Method?
The MoSCoW method is a prioritization technique used for project management:
M (Must Have), S (Should Have), C (Could Have), W (Won’t Have).
Our Toolbox to Modernization
Consider tools when modernizing instead of migrating

dbt is a command line tool built by Fishtown Analytics that allows data analysts and engineers to take control of the entire analytics engineering workflow.

Snowflake, a modern data warehouse solution, is designed exclusively to be a cloud-native data warehouse.

Fivetran takes the pain out of data replication, with a low-configuration data pipeline & zero-maintenance service.

BigQuery is GCP’s cloud-native data warehouse. Serverless, secure and powerful, Red Pill clients love that BigQuery has a pay-per-use model.