ETL & Data Integration
Integration that keeps up with your business.
Legacy ETL tools hold years of business logic, but they are expensive to license, hard to change and slow to scale. We integrate your applications and modernize ETL into code-first ELT on your cloud platform, carrying the logic across safely and proving every number matches.
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The problems we solve
Costly legacy licenses
Per-core ETL licenses and dedicated servers that grow faster than the value they deliver.
Logic locked in tools
Thousands of mappings and stored procedures with little documentation and few people who understand them.
Long change cycles
Simple changes take weeks because of tightly coupled jobs and manual deployment.
Point-to-point sprawl
Applications wired directly to each other, so one change breaks three integrations.
Outcomes
What you get
- Legacy ETL licenses and servers retired on a planned schedule
- Business logic documented, tested and version-controlled
- Changes released in days, through CI/CD
- One governed integration layer instead of point-to-point links
Approach
How we deliver it
- 1
Inventory and analyze
Automated scanning of existing jobs, mappings and dependencies to size and sequence the work.
- 2
Convert with accelerators
Pattern-based conversion of mappings into dbt, Spark or SQL, with engineers reviewing every workflow.
- 3
Reconcile in parallel
Old and new pipelines run side by side with automated row- and aggregate-level comparison.
- 4
Cut over and decommission
Workflow-by-workflow switch with rollback plans, then retire the legacy jobs.
Deliverables
What we hand over
Working software, tests and documentation in your repositories and cloud accounts.
Technologies
- Informatica
- SSIS
- IBM DataStage
- Talend
- dbt
- Azure Data Factory
- AWS Glue
- Apache Kafka
- Fivetran
- Airbyte
- ETL estate assessment
- Complexity scoring, dependency graph and a sequenced modernization plan with effort estimates.
- Converted pipelines
- Code-first ELT in dbt, Spark or SQL with tests and documentation for every model.
- Integration layer
- APIs, event streams and managed connectors replacing point-to-point integrations.
- Reconciliation framework
- Automated data comparison reports signed off by business owners before cutover.
- CI/CD pipeline
- Automated testing and deployment so changes ship safely and often.
Use cases
Where this makes a difference
Informatica PowerCenter to dbt + Snowflake
Hundreds of mappings re-implemented as tested SQL models on a cloud warehouse.
SSIS to Azure Data Factory and Fabric
On-premises SQL Server packages moved to managed, monitored cloud pipelines.
Application integration hub
ERP, CRM and e-commerce systems connected through events and APIs instead of nightly file drops.
ETL modernization & big data migration
Leave legacy platforms without the big-bang risk.
Hadoop clusters, appliance warehouses and legacy ETL tools hold years of business logic. We move them to a modern lakehouse in planned waves, reconciling every number before anything is switched off.
From
- Cloudera / Hadoop
- Teradata
- Netezza
- Oracle Exadata
- Informatica
- SSIS
- IBM DataStage
- Talend
To
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Microsoft Fabric
- Google BigQuery
- 01AssessInventory data, jobs and dependencies; build the business case.
- 02Plan wavesGroup workloads into low-risk waves with clear success criteria.
- 03ConvertMove data, convert ETL and SQL, map security and access.
- 04Validate in parallelRun old and new side by side; reconcile every number.
- 05Cut over and retireSwitch consumers with rollback plans, then decommission.
FAQ
Common questions
ETL or ELT?
On modern cloud platforms we usually recommend ELT: load first, transform inside the platform with tested SQL or Spark. Some cases, such as masking sensitive data before it lands, still call for transformation in flight.
Can conversion be automated?
Partly. Accelerators handle repeatable patterns quickly, but engineers review and test every workflow. Fully automatic conversion tends to copy legacy problems into the new platform.
How do we know the numbers still match?
Old and new pipelines run in parallel and an automated reconciliation compares outputs at row and aggregate level. Business owners sign off before each cutover.
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Tell us where your data is today.
A 45-minute conversation with a senior engineer. You leave with an honest view of what to build first, whether or not we work together.