How to Migrate Your Enterprise Data Warehouse to a Cloud Data Warehouse

The article discusses a step-by-step approach to migrate an on-premise enterprise data warehouse (EDW) to a cloud-based one. It highlights the benefits of using cloud data warehouses, such as reduced upfront costs, lower ongoing expenses, improved performance, increased flexibility, and easier scalability. The article also outlines some challenges that organizations may face during this migration process, including replanning their data model, handling stored procedures, and connecting custom data applications. It suggests a gradual approach to the cloud migration strategy, starting with copying the existing data warehouse in the cloud, setting up ongoing replication, migrating analytics infrastructure and data applications, and finally recreating transformations in the new environment. The article emphasizes the importance of using tools like Fivetran for synchronizing data between old and new data warehouses during this transition phase.

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