While more organizations are embarking on the cloud, many are still hesitant about migrations amid a myriad of challenges like lack of understanding, data silos or security concerns.
However, exploring these hesitations upfront can help build confidence so organizations can take more informed decisions about their operations, boosting productivity.
For instance, migrating your Oracle data to a cloud target data warehouse (TDW) is a step in the right direction, but traditional data replication approaches can create new silos within the cloud environment.
Some of the challenges that businesses are likely to be up against on this journey include:
- Incomplete data picture: If replicating only a subset of your Oracle data to the cloud, a TDW can leave valuable insights behind. This can then result in an incomplete picture, skewed analysis and inaccurate decision-making.
- Integration challenges: Integrating replicated data with other sources in the cloud TDW can turn into an elaborate and time-consuming process, hindering the creation of a unified data platform.
- Limited agility: The inability to smoothly blend your Oracle data with other cloud data sources can also restrict the ability to gain holistic insights and adapt to evolving business needs.
With these limitations preventing businesses from realizing the full potential of their cloud data strategy, a recent report by Informatica revealed that 40 percent of data integration projects fail due to difficulty integrating data from disparate sources.
Replicating Oracle data for blending with other data sources
Helping businesses with a solution that breaks down silos and assists with leveraging the combined power of Oracle data and other cloud data sources, insightsoftware aims to offer a robust data replication solution to integrate Oracle data with other sources within the cloud TDW.
This offers help with complete data replication – replicating the entire Oracle data landscape to the cloud TDW, ensuring a comprehensive and accurate foundation for analysis. It also assists with streamlined data integration to integrate the replicated Oracle data with other cloud data sources, fostering a unified data platform for holistic insights.
The solution can assist with gaining the flexibility to adapt the cloud data strategy as business needs evolve and also allows to easily incorporate new data sources and unlock new growth opportunities.
As more organizational departments are realizing the potential of eliminating fragmented cloud data environments, the ability to make data-driven decisions and gain a complete view of the business, these approaches to cloud migration are gaining further traction.
