How to migrate your data warehouse
A strategic move from big tech to European cloud solutions
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If you’ve decided to migrate your data warehouse to a European environment, taking a structured approach is key. This blog focuses on the steps needed for a smooth and successful transition.
This article is part of the “EuroStack” series, in which we help organisations make the transition to European alternatives for their data and analytics environment.
Series overview:
- Blog 1 – Is your organisation ready for independence from the US and migrate to EuroStack?
- Blog 2 – What European data warehouse solutions are available?
- Blog 3 (current article) – Migrating to a European data warehouse: where to start?
- Blog 4 – Migrating to European tag management and analytics solutions: where to start?
We identify the following eight steps:
- Define migration objectives and ensure internal alignment
- Assess your current data warehouse and gather business requirements
- Design target architecture and governance
- Choose a migration strategy
- Implement the initial use case
- Validate the initial implementation
- Carry out the full migration
- Decide on the final cut-over
You can download our migration guide for a detailed step-by-step plan. This article is a concise summary, ideal if you want to understand the process before you start the full migration.
1. Define migration objectives and ensure internal alignment
Before you begin, make sure everyone is aligned on the main reasons for moving away from your current setup. When moving to a European cloud, these reasons may include data sovereignty, better regulatory compliance, or reducing dependency on the big tech ecosystem. Quantify these drivers where possible, and secure buy-in from all relevant stakeholders.
2. Assess your current data warehouse and gather business requirements
A clear understanding of your existing environment and how it is used across the business forms the foundation for your new solution. Alongside reviewing current use cases, gather requirements for potential future use cases to ensure the new warehouse supports them.
This involves discussions with stakeholders ranging from business analysts and engineers to marketers and managers. Map all data sources, data models, and integrations to understand the current structure. Gather relevant data governance policies for the new system, and analyse major cost drivers to identify opportunities for savings.
3. Design target architecture and governance
Using the business requirements, create a visual of the technical architecture for the new warehouse, including all relevant compute, storage, and orchestration components. Define governance rules and processes—such as data ownership, access management, and handling of personal data (PII)—to ensure safe and compliant use of data. Consider incorporating a data catalogue to help govern your data assets.
4. Choose a migration strategy
Set your migration strategy before creating a detailed plan. Will you migrate all data sources up-front, or start with those required for the first high-impact use case? We recommend starting small with the highest-value case and building out the model from there.
5. Implement the initial use case
There are two main streams of work here:
- Setting up the platform infrastructure and ingesting the first data sources
- Modelling the ingested raw data according to the business requirements
Once this is complete, you can proceed to testing the initial implementation.
6. Validate the initial implementation
Run thorough checks on the first use case. Compare outputs from the old and new systems, check query performance, and run integration tests. Have business users perform user acceptance testing via the BI tool or application that will consume the modelled data.
7. Carry out the full migration
Once the initial use case is successfully validated, proceed with the migration of remaining data sources. Ingest these one by one, modelling them to fit the new structure. It’s common to redesign and improve models at this stage based on fresh business insights.
Update BI tools and other connected applications to ensure a smooth transition. Expect some manual adjustments in BI tools depending on changes to models and schemas.
8. Decide on the final cut-over
This is the definitive switch from the old big tech warehouse to the new European solution. Only cut over once all use cases are migrated, tested, and users are fully onboarded. Remember to remove any unused resources to save costs.
Conclusion
As these migration steps show, moving your data warehouse to a European alternative requires a structured approach. You can find more detail on each step, including deliverables, in our migration guide.
At Digital Power, we help clients successfully navigate this journey. Find out more about our data warehousing solution and read practical use cases.
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Joachim will be happy to talk to you about what we can do for you and your organisation as a data partner.
Commercieel Manager Data Engineering+31(0)20 308 43 90+31(0)6 23 59 83 71joachim.vanbiemen@digital-power.com
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In this video, you will find out what a job as a Data Engineer looks like! What does a working week look like, which clients do our Data Engineers work for and what makes working so much fun? Oskar likes to tell you more about it!
5 reasons to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Infrastructure as Code has proven itself as a reliable technique for setting up platforms in the cloud. However, it does require an additional investment of time from the developers involved. In which cases does the extra effort pay off? Find out in this article.
How do I become a Data Engineer?
A few years ago, the job title didn't even exist: Data Engineer. Nowadays, there is a high demand for Data Engineers. Almost every organisation consciously collects data, and the realisation that this must be done in a structured way is growing. If the data you collect is not well organised and correct, you cannot use it as input for making good decisions. Data Engineers build infrastructures that process data. Therefore, they are indispensable to organisations that want to collect and apply their data in a structured way.
Central data storage with a new data infrastructure
Dedimo is a collaboration of five mental healthcare initiatives. In order to continuously enhance the quality of their care, they organize internal processes more efficiently. Therefore, they use perceptions from the data that is internally available. Previously, they acquired the data themselves from different source systems with ad hoc scripts. They requested our help to make this process more robust, efficient and to further professionalise it. They asked us to facilitate the central storage of their data, located in a cloud data warehouse. The goal was to set up the data infrastructure within this environment, since they were already used to working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Improved data quality thanks to a new data pipeline
At Royal HaskoningDHV, the number of requests from customers with Data Engineering issues continue to climb. The new department they have set up for this, is growing. So they asked us to temporarily offer their Data Engineering team more capacity. One of the issues we offered help with involved the Aa en Maas Water Authority.
EP 1: Almost graduated and ready for your first job as a data professional?
How do you find out what you want, and what do you look for in job vacancies? Will you opt for a large company, a small company, a consultancy or something else? These are some of the questions that our graduation intern Stijn had to deal with. He had a discussion with his colleagues to get answers to these questions. The result? The Data Choice Cast! In this podcast, Stijn asks all his pressing questions and receives tips that help him (and hopefully you, too) to make the right choice in choosing a job in the data world.
Digital Power Datahub and Partos launch the Data Awareness series
On February 10, 2022, the Digital Power Datahub and the Partos Digital Lab together kicked off the Data Awareness series with the Intro to Data Awareness. This series of 6 training courses develops the Datahub especially for the members of Partos; non-profits in the development cooperation industry. The aim of the series is to make development cooperation specialists data-wise, so that they can make and measure more impact.
Making impact measurable
The Designathon Works foundation organises Design Hackathons (Designathons) for children aged 8 to 12. The target? Teaching children from all over the world skills to become a 'changemaker'. They are challenged to design solutions for a better world, for example to combat climate change. From the Datahub, we helped Designathon Works fine-tune the impact measurements free of charge. We also made a first move towards automating data collection, analysis and visualisation.
Which data traineeship is right for you?
You are almost done with your studies and looking for an employer that offers you the opportunity to learn everything about the field of data. Or you are no longer challenged in your current position and would like to become more technical. In both cases, you do not want to follow unpaid courses, but you would like to get started as soon as possible for real customers, with a serious salary. Does this sound familiar? Then these data traineeships are really something for you.
A well-organised data infrastructure
FysioHolland is an umbrella organisation for physiotherapists in the Netherlands. A central service team relieves therapists of additional work, so that they can mainly focus on providing the best care. In addition to organic growth, FysioHolland is connecting new practices to the organisation. Each of these has its own systems, work processes and treatment codes. This has made FysioHolland's data management large and complex.
A scalable machine-learning platform for predicting billboard impressions
The Neuron provides a programmatic bidding platform to plan, buy and manage digital Out-Of-Home ads in real-time. They asked us to predict the number of expected impressions for digital advertising on billboards in a scalable and efficient way.
Why do I need Data Engineers when I have Data Scientists?
It is now clear to most companies: data-driven decisions by Data Science add concrete value to business operations. Whether your goal is to build better marketing campaigns, perform preventive maintenance on your machines or fight fraud more effectively, there are applications for Data Science in every industry.
A Career as a Data Engineer? Shape your training
In June 2020, Sander became part of our team. Although he started in the middle of corona time, he soon noticed that he was greatly stimulated to make contact with his new colleagues. This largely came naturally as part of our onboarding program: "This matched perfectly to my needs: I started calling many colleagues myself to get acquainted! "Read how Sander designs his own training as a data engineer."
The foundation for Data Engineering: solid data pipelines
Basically, Data Engineers work on data pipelines. These are data processes that can retrieve data from a certain place and write it in somewhere. In this article you can read more about how data pipelines work and discover why they are so important for a solid data infrastructure.
What is a data architecture?
Working in a data-driven way helps you make better decisions. The better your data quality, the more you can rely on it. A good data architecture is a basic ingredient for data-driven working. In this article, we explain what a data architecture is and what a Data Architect does.
Measurable impact on social change using a data lake
RNW Media is an NGO that focuses on countries where there is limited freedom of expression. The organisation tries to make an impact through online channels such as social media and websites. To measure that impact, RNW Media drew up a Theory of Change (a kind of KPI framework for NGOs).
Digital transformation and better internal collaboration thanks to insight into offline and online data.
Publisher Malmberg collects a lot of offline and online data. More and more educational institutions are using online licenses in addition to (or instead of) printed teaching materials. To properly make use of this, Malmberg uses monthly reports. The in-house data team compiles these as input for specific departments. Malmberg asked us to strengthen this team and make the internal processes around data more efficient.
