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:

Cost Savings

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 and 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 and 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

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 and Warranty

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

Offer

Future-Proof Your Data Management: Migrate from Sybase to Azure SQL with Confidence

The end of maintenance for Sybase is looming in 2025. Secure your organization’s data management future and save costs with a migration to Azure SQL. Our proven approach ensures a seamless transition tailored to your specific needs, promising resilience and scalability.

Kickstart your journey with our 5-week discovery assessment. Download our offer to learn more.

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Why Adastra

Seamless Migration: Paving the Way for Future Cloud Integration

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.

Microsoft Canada recognizes Adastra as winner of the 2023 Manufacturing and Financial Services Impact Awards