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Sybase to Azure SQL Adastra Migration Approach

Learn about Adastra’s phased Sybase migration

Sybase Announces The End of Maintenance by 2025

In 2018, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), also known as Sybase, announced the end of mainstream maintenance (EoMM) by 2025. While the platform has been maintained thus far, SAP has decided to refocus investments away from Sybase. Remaining customer must now weigh in the options to either migrate or maintain their existing platform, while enduring a rapidly decreasing return on investment.

The EoMM presents the opportunity for organizations to migrate to the cloud. Some of the benefits you can expect to see include:

Reduced IT Investment and Overhead Costs

Switching to Azure SQL database for instances, cuts down your IT costs by removing the need for expensive data handling software. Resulting in never having to incur any maintenance costs for servicing and updates moving forward.

Scalability

The concept of switching to the cloud means your company has a better ability to scale up or down based on your IT requirements and business plan.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is another valuable new option when migrating to the cloud. By using the cloud, business can save money, delivery value more quickly, access a broad range of technologies, scale their computing capacity up and down as need to meet demand, and shift more of their focus to provide business value.

Resolve Current State Challenges

Datacenter contracts expiry
Quickly integrate acquisitions
Urgent capacity needs
Software and hardware refresh
Security threats
Compliance
Application innovation
Software end of support

Seamless, end to end solution | Near-zero downtime | Resilient | Migrate at-scale from multiple sources

Our Approach

Discovery (5 Weeks)

Identify

The technology toolset

Understand & Document

  • Functional & Non-functional requirements
  • The data source and connectivity
  • Readiness for migration and replication

Design

Design

future state architecture to align with objectives in consideration of  current state

Sign off

on design from all involved stakeholders

Develop & Migrate

Identify

  • The schema & data migration methodologies and tools
  • Replication technology & model from Sybase to SQL Server and vice-versa

Develop

Migration, replication and validation scripts

Test

  • Unit testing
  • Quality assurance
  • End-to-End SIT testing
  • Data validation
  • Application-Level testing
  • Performance testing
  • User acceptance testing
  • Phased migration and application validation

Deploy

  • Phased approach deployment to ensure zero data loss and successful fallback
  • Automated migration, validation and replication
  • Parallel run and application validation

Handoff & Warranty

  • Provide Run Book, user guide and handover documents with training session
  • Monitor prod system and fallback replication

Why Adastra

Expertise

Adastra has a suite of accelerators from 50+ cloud migrations to ensure your project is completed with efficiency and success.

Leading Partner

Adastra is a leading Azure partner as Microsoft’s go-to partner for Data & AI Driven Digital Transformation on the Cloud

Customer First Approach

Adastra works closely with our clients to ensure solutions are tailored to their unique requirements and preferences

Future-Proof Solutions

Adastra develops solutions designed to meet the current and future needs of your organization

Adastra’s migration and conversion efforts focus on reducing the number of systems that are used across the organization. Adastra built a highly automated data migration solution to move everything to the new systems in one go. Before the migration, the data needed to be well-prepared, and all issues pertaining to data quality and migration had to be addressed and automated in advance, so that as soon as the migration was complete, the client’s employees could move to the new systems.

The data movement process includes the extraction of data from source systems and data transformation and restructuring to prepare it in a format that was ready to load into the target system. To define what kind of data is needed for the new systems, it was important to first understand where that data resided in the existing systems. This required detailed data analysis and profiling to identify data domains and data elements in the existing systems. Next, the data is mapped to the new systems, keeping in mind that the source and target systems often had data structured differently, with a different set of attributes and fields. In some cases, a single attribute in the old system populated multiple attributes in the new system or vice versa, and planning and analysis for data migration had to be done accordingly. For instance, in the case of the address attribute, it may have to be split into different components (street name, suite number, city, pin code, etc.)

The migration to on-premise SQL Server will also serve as a conservative step towards the move to the cloud in the future. The data migration will make it easier and faster for an organization to migrate to the cloud by simply porting their SQL Server instance across to Synapse or SQL Server Managed instance.

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