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Cloud Migration Consulting Services

From a Pragmatic Strategy to Migration Execution

In cloud services since 2012, ScienceSoft delivers cloud migration consulting to help companies move applications and data warehouses to efficient cloud environments risk-free and cost-effectively.

Cloud Migration Consulting Services - ScienceSoft
Cloud Migration Consulting Services - ScienceSoft

Cloud migration consulting encompasses business case creation, migration planning and design and can be followed by migration execution. It is aimed at boosting an app’s or a DWH’s performance, cutting OPEX, and unleashing the possibilities for evolution.

What Makes ScienceSoft a Reliable Cloud Migration Consulting Partner

  • 35 years in IT.
  • We know the leading cloud platforms:
  • Established DevOps practices since 2013.
  • ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certificates that assure the quality of provided services and the security of the customers' data.

Scope of Our Cloud Migration Consulting Services

ScienceSoft can support your migration project end-to-end or provide certain service elements, depending on your needs. Our consulting offer includes:

Consultation to project stakeholders

  • Sharing industry best practices, market survey findings.
  • Eliciting business benefits and challenges of moving to the cloud.
  • Defining the skills and training required to enable successful migration.
  • Analyzing the service offers of different cloud providers.

Creating a business case

  • Calculating expected TCO.
  • Calculating expected ROI.
  • Assessing feasibility of the cloud migration project.

Migration planning

  • Estimating the required cloud storage and compute resources (including at peak times).
  • Auditing existing application(s) or a data warehouse.
  • Designing a migration strategy and a plan tailored to your business needs.
  • Prioritizing workloads to migrate and outlining a migration schedule.
  • Creating a risk management plan including, e.g., planning a backup strategy to prevent data loss.

Project management planning

  • Developing a roles and responsibilities matrix.
  • Preparing a communication plan with reporting and escalation procedures.
  • Defining KPIs for cloud migration (workloads’ response time, availability, error rate, etc.).

Migration design

  • Selecting a migration approach (rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, repurchase or retire) or a combination of several approaches.
  • Designing application(s) architecture adapted to the cloud (in case of refactoring).
  • Designing a cloud data warehouse, if required.
  • Designing CI/CD pipelines for fast development.
  • Selecting tools for automated cloud migration (e.g., AWS Application Migration Service, Azure Data Migration Assistant, BigQuery Data Transfer Service).

Migration, support and optimization

  • Migrating application(s) or DWH, workloads and data to the cloud environment.
  • Configuring cloud infrastructure.
  • Integrating cloud and on-premises environments to form a hybrid cloud infrastructure, if required.
  • Implementing CI/CD.
  • Testing, including automated testing.
  • Supporting and optimizing the migrated applications and/or DWH.

Want to Understand the Cost of Your Cloud Migration?

Please answer a few questions prepared by ScienceSoft's consultants.

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What do you plan to move to the cloud?

*Where do you host your IT infrastructure now?

What is the cumulative size of your servers?

*Where do you host your data storage now?

Are you planning to increase the load on your data storage after the migration?

*How much data do you plan to move to the cloud?

*Where do you host your applications now?

What architectures do your applications have?

Are you planning to increase the load on your applications after the migration?

What approach do you think would suit your cloud migration?

*What environments are you planning to have in the cloud?

What is your primary reason for migrating to the cloud?

*How many clouds are you planning to use?

Do you want to implement automated monitoring of your assets in the cloud?

Are there any specific compliance or regulatory standards your cloud migration must meet?

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Thank you for your request!

We will analyze your case and get back to you within a business day to share a ballpark estimate.

In the meantime, would you like to learn more about ScienceSoft?

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Benefits of Cloud Migration Consulting by ScienceSoft

Migration cost efficiency

We map out individual pragmatic strategy for each application or a data warehouse to reduce the re-development costs that may be required before migration.

We leverage auto scaling features for storage and compute resources.

We define optimal cloud services for your solution.

Mature processes and infrastructures

We design and implement cloud-native infrastructures and architectures that encompass microservices and containerization, IaC and serverless approach, CI/CD pipelines so that you could reach the next level of IT maturity.

Business continuity

We plan and carry out migration without hindering your business processes.

High performance

We plan the required cloud resources and leverage auto scaling to cope with peak-time workloads painlessly.

Reliable architecture

We design applications’ architecture which is able to survive a failure.

Not Sure What Cloud Platform to Choose?

Let our consulting team do this for you. We build our recommendations based on your business needs and expected costs.

Our Cloud Migration Projects

Data Analytics System Enabling Cross Analysis of 30,000 Attributes and 100x Faster Reporting
Case Study

Data Warehouse Migration to AWS and Azure Cloud

ScienceSoft designed and launched a scalable big data analytics system based on Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, and Apache Spark. The new solution processes 1,000+ types of advertising data in real time and enables comprehensive analytics for different markets.

Mobile Credit Platform Revamp and AWS Cost Optimization in 3 Months
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Mobile Credit Platform Revamp and AWS Cost Optimization in 3 Months

ScienceSoft migrated a mobile credit platform to the new AWS region, resolved the bugs in a loan app’s code, and implemented new lending features. The Client capitalized on lower cloud infrastructure expenses and faster time-to-market for its product.

Compliant BI Solution Enabling 30x Faster Reporting and a 30% Decrease in Cloud Costs
Case Study

Compliant BI Solution Enabling 30x Faster Reporting and a 30% Decrease in Cloud Costs

In just three months, ScienceSoft assisted a UAE fintech startup in migrating its analytics pipelines from Amazon RDS to Google Cloud Platform. The new solution allowed the Customer to move away from spreadsheet-based reporting and benefit from self-service BI.

Training Portal Modernization for Better User Experience, Performance, and Scalability
Case Study

Training Portal Migration to Azure Cloud

ScienceSoft developed a new web app for our regular Client. The updated UI and UX design increased user satisfaction, and the cloud data storage improved customer base management.

Non-Disruptive Migration of a 20-Server Ecommerce Platform to AWS
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Non-Disruptive Migration of a 20-Server Ecommerce Platform to AWS

The Client’s infrastructure was transferred from dedicated servers to Amazon Web Services. Our Client is a cashback service provider for millions of online shopping, travel, and entertainment services and products in 100+ countries. The resulting solution is a cloud-based, scalable production system that can withstand high loads.

What’s Your Cloud Migration Consulting Service Option?

Application migration consulting

  • Creating a business case.
  • Choosing a cloud provider.
  • Planning application(s) migration.
  • Defining a strategy and approach for the app’s migration.
  • Migrating, supporting and optimizing the app and infrastructure.
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Data warehouse migration consulting

  • Analyzing the existing DWH.
  • Creating a business case.
  • Choosing a cloud provider.
  • Defining migration strategy and approach.
  • Designing a cloud DWH.
  • Performing migration.
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87% of Enterprises Will Accelerate Their Cloud Migration in a Post-COVID World*

And here are just some reasons why you should be among them:

  • +19%

    app performance    

  • -37%

    IT infrastructure costs

  • +75%

    IT infrastructure team’s productivity