UsefulBI Helped HP Inc Overcome Challenges With Their On-Premise Servers, Including Maintenance and Scalability Issues, by Developing a Configurator Tool for Cloud Migration
Problem Statement
HP faced challenges with their on-premise servers prior to migration to the cloud
- Maintenance of the servers was a major issue, requiring regular updates and a dedicated IT team.
- Maintenance was time-consuming and costly.
- The on-premise servers were not very scalable.
- As data increased, it became difficult to manage and store on existing servers.
- Performance issues arose and limited HP’s ability to use data to drive business decisions.
UsefulBI Solution Approach
- UsefulBI worked with HP as a subcontractor to develop a configurator project for cloud migration.
- The configurator tool was based on metadata configuration and allowed users to define migration steps for various data layers in any cloud.
- HP’s existing ABCR framework was utilized to execute the captured metadata, providing a comprehensive approach to auditing, balancing, controlling, and reconciling data.
- The configurator tool and ABCR framework were used to migrate various data sources, including SAP HANA, Vertica, MAP-R , Oracle, SQL server, Postgres SQL, and more.
- This helped HP overcome scalability issues with their onpremise servers and effectively manage and store their data in the cloud.
Key Building Blocks of UsefulBI’s Code Configurator Product to Address Major Business Drivers for Cloud Migration
Our solution delivers both quantitative and qualitative benefits through automation and acceleration of key processes, resulting in improved efficiency and faster time-to-market.
Improved Onboarding: Quick onboarding of dev team members and ease of adoption for developers and data owners, reducing onboarding time to days instead of 6-8 weeks.
Increased Efficiency: Simplify frameworks for quick onboarding of new developers and boost developer efficiency, with up to 80% improvement in master data setup and 50% improvement in ingestion and
distillation productivity.
Single Version of Truth: Easy-to-use UI and search-driven HP Code Configurator Product with code gen capabilities for HP use cases, leading to one single version of truth.
Automation: UI-driven approach for better maintainability, no manual metadata
loading in multiple environments, automation of approval workflows, data lineage, versioning, and
creation of key artifacts like Source to Target mapping document.
Leveraging existing Platforms: HP tech platforms, accelerators such as BMDIS tech environment, AWS, ABCR, UAM, eliminating dependencies on HIVE and Talend.
Extensibility: Generic Code Config Platform that can be extended, laying the foundation to create a separate data pipeline orchestration based on delta lake-driven architecture in the future.
