Databases are the backbone of all major applications. However, with dynamic business requirements, databases may struggle to cope with new demands.

The most important first step is a comprehensive assessment of your current database environment. This gives you a clear picture of— what should be done to manage large data, decrease costs, and ultimately elevate your database infrastructure. However, assessing a database for modernization can be complicated because it involves evaluating complex dependencies such as integrations, data movement, and business functionality.

Whether upgrading from a legacy database platform to an AWS cloud-native solution or implementing a hybrid cloud strategy, with Simform’s database modernization assessment, you can— identify potential risks, minimize downtime, ensure a smooth transition, and optimize performance.

Product Brief

Our database modernization assessment provides a roadmap for modernizing both relational and non-relational databases, enabling your business to grow and innovate. Our AWS-certified professionals, including Solution Architects and Data Analytics experts, conduct a thorough evaluation of your database infrastructure.

We offer:

• Stakeholder engagement: Our team engages effectively with key stakeholders, gaining a deep understanding of your current database landscape, use cases, and business objectives.
• Performance evaluation: We identify areas for enhancing performance, such as query optimization, indexing improvements, and resource allocation.
• Resilience examination: Leveraging our Resilience Services competency, we evaluate your database's ability to withstand failures and recover from disruptions, ensuring optimal reliability.
• Security assessment: Our team conducts a comprehensive security assessment to identify vulnerabilities in ensuring robust access controls, data encryption, and compliance.
• Cost analysis: We evaluate current licensing and operational costs that can help you identify more cost-effective solutions.
• Schema and metrics analysis: Utilizing our Data & Analytics Consulting competency, We capture detailed database metrics and interdependencies, providing insights for informed decision-making.
• Migration planning analysis: Our Migration Consulting competency enables us to evaluate various parameters like application architecture, data dependencies, infrastructure requirements, system compatibility, and operational readiness, to assess migration readiness.
• Governance and compliance assessment: We examine your data governance frameworks, security protocols, and monitoring systems across your data lakes, data warehouses, and data processing pipelines to find vulnerabilities.
• Specific recommendations: Our assessment evaluates the capacity and resilience of your data ecosystem for various use cases such as BI visualization, real-time analytics, e-commerce, media streaming, and more.

Our thorough evaluation, backed by our AWS certified experts, competencies, and various service delivery validations, including Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and more, lays the groundwork for your modernization efforts so that the outcome aligns with your broader business strategy.

Deliverables

• Comprehensive assessment documentation: Complete audit of existing data infrastructure with insights into performance, resilience, and cost optimization.

• Migration performance analysis overview: Thorough analysis of system compatibility, resource utilization, latency concerns, and performance management issues that may occur during data migration processes.

• Governance and security report: Detailed evaluation of your data processing pipelines, data lakes and warehouses for governance and security.