Modernize ODS/EDW to Ellucian Insights
Modernize ODS/EDW to Ellucian Insights
Modernization approach
ABCloudz helps institutions migrate and modernize their ODS/EDW environments to Ellucian Insights. Our two-phased approach covers discovery, solution design, seamless data migration, integration modernization, and post-deployment support, ensuring optimized reporting, compliance, and advanced analytics.
Phase 1: Migration solution design
In this phase, we analyze your current Operational Data Storage (ODS) / Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) environment, identify all custom integrations, reporting structures, ETL processes, and dependencies, and come up with a Migration Solution Document that captures every step of your migration journey.
Customization & baseline analysis
We review and analyze custom schemas, ETL processes, and BI reports to assess alignment with Ellucian Insights, including access control and SaaS security standards.
Integration mapping
Documenting and evaluating existing data pipelines, third-party BI tools (Cognos, Argos, Power BI, SAS, Business Objects), and API-based workflows to ensure smooth interoperability.
SaaS capability alignment
Aligning with the Customer Architecture Reference Model (CARM), which guides institutions in mapping their current strategies, processes, and custom workflows to standardized Ellucian SaaS implementations.
Migration roadmap development
Developing a detailed Migration Solution Document, outlining how reports, dashboards, and data structures will be restructured within Ellucian Insights, ensuring compliance with SaaS best practices.
Phase 2: Implementation
Executing the migration, adapting custom workflows, and ensuring the full functionality of Ellucian Insights.
Customization adaptation & refactoring
Migrating custom reporting logic, ETL jobs, and schemas. Analyzing embedded SQL, transforming stored procedures, and restructuring complex joins, unions, and aggregations.
Integration modernization
Replacing legacy data extraction methods with Ellucian Data Connect, a cloud-native integration platform for secure, scalable, and automated data ingestion into Ellucian Insights.
Data migration & validation
Transferring institutional data to Ellucian Insights, ensuring schema consistency, data integrity, and compliance through structured reconciliation checks and validation processes.
Testing & performance tuning
Conducting functional and performance testing to validate data consistency, reporting accuracy, and system responsiveness.
Deployment & cutover execution
Executing a seamless transition with rollback plans, final validation, environment stabilization, and Ellucian Insights configuration before go-live.
Training & post-migration support
Providing comprehensive documentation, knowledge transfer sessions, ongoing monitoring, incident response, and proactive maintenance.
We are world champions in migrations!
The ABCloudz team has been doing all kinds of migrations for 20+ years, including various sources/targets, preserving architecture, and performing application modernization, custom and packaged applications, and transactional and analytical workloads, getting involved with 200+ workloads annually.
We are big believers in “automate the automatable” — the best proof of competency and quality. A unique fact about us is the “convert between SQL dialects” technology, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2005 (SSMA) and by AWS with the acquisition of DB Best in 2021 (AWS SCT).
Why ABCloudz?
ABCloudz is a full-service global technology firm helping higher education institutions manage data, applications, and infrastructure anywhere. We’ve been working closely with Ellucian product and services teams for years, gaining deep technical and functional knowledge of how the Ellucian ecosystem works from the inside. This expertise enables us to deliver the fastest, most automated, and highly cost-effective modernization of on-premises data warehouse to Ellucian Insights.
20 Years managing and engineering data and applications
Partnership with AWS, Microsoft, Google and Ellucian
Industry expertise in higher education, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and beyond
20+ technology practices
Automate the “automatable”
Focus on data, modernization, and ai
12 steps migration and modernization methodology
How much will it cost? How long will it take?
These are the first questions institutions ask when considering migration to Ellucian Insights. The cost and timeline of your migration depend on the complexity of your current setup, the number of custom reports, data models, and integrations that need to be modernized.
That’s why we don’t believe in guesswork. At ABCloudz, we follow a proven 12-Step Migration and Modernization Methodology that starts with a comprehensive discovery phase.
In this first step, our team thoroughly analyzes your existing ODS/EDW environment, identifying all custom ETL processes, reporting structures, data dependencies, and analytics workflows.
The outcome? A detailed modernization roadmap — a solution design document that outlines every step of your modernization journey. This includes:
with a detailed breakdown of required tasks.
in person-hours for each phase of the modernization.
based on the scope of work.
What's next?
Let’s start an engagement with a discovery and solution design phase to map out your modernization strategy. Contact us to kick off the conversation.