For many enterprises, modernization represents an exciting development: a chance to adopt cloud technology and take a crucial first step towards operationalizing AI at scale.
But data migrations fail more often than most enterprises admit: 67% of companies have experienced major data loss (Infrascale), while each data loss costs US companies an average of $8.64m per event (Ponemon Institute).
To modernize with confidence, enterprises need systems, not spreadsheets, to guarantee source-target parity. Successful modernization happens when confidence is built into crucial cutover periods: where data quality is proven and loss is prevented.
The Challenges of Data Quality In Modernization
- Data Discrepancies During Cutover: Large, multi-wave migrations from on-prem databases to cloud databases carry high risk of missing, duplicated, or transformed records.
- Data Lost in Translation: Complex transformation logic (joins, aggregates, filters) can subtly change meaning, and teams often only discover issues after go-live.
- Cost Spikes from Parallel Systems: Dual-run periods are expensive. Every extra week of parallel systems, reconciliations, and rollbacks drains budget, distracts teams, and pushes back cutover-dependent migration changes.
- Unscalable, Ad Hoc Solutions: Most organizations stitch together SQL scripts, spreadsheets, and one-off checks to “certify” migrations, which doesn’t scale across domains and programs.
How Validata Upholds Data Trust through Modernization
Replacing unstandardized validation frameworks that are complex to manage and impossible to scale, Validata offers a productized way to certify source-target equivalence before cutover.
Through vector validation for high-speed checks, full-and-fast-record validation to confirm row-level parity, and key validation to highlight whether every critical ID in the source is present in the target, Validata provides comprehensive coverage. Together with downloadable reports and repair scripts, Validata makes data validation part of the migration runbook; not just a side project.
With Certified Modernization, Enterprises can:
- Ensure fewer failed or rolled-back cutovers, avoiding downtime, revenue impact, and brand damage.
- Decrease run-rate spend on legacy infrastructure and licenses by safely decommissioning systems sooner.
- Reduce remediation and rework after go-live because issues are found and fixed earlier.
- Streamline stakeholder sign-off on migration phases, supported by a clear track record instead of anecdotal checks.
What This Means for Your Team: A Smoother, More Confident Modernization Process
Modernizing your data architecture shouldn’t mean months of firefighting and false starts. With Validata, business leaders and engineering teams are assured of seamless crossovers, with proof of parity between source and target.
- Build a clear path to migration, with concrete, repeatable steps to certify each wave for architects and migration leads.
- Remove complexity by offering engineers intuitive validation workflows, not manual scripts.
- Reassure business leaders and compliance teams with clear, non-technical evidence that migrations preserved the data they care about.
- Stay prepared: in the event that fixes are needed, teams get downloadable SQL DML repair scripts for target-side correction of Extra@Source, Extra@Target, and Content Mismatch records.
- Build confidence in multi-threaded migrations, with full support for heterogeneous sources and targets (legacy RDBMS, cloud warehouses/lakehouses, ODS, and more).
- Integrate validation workflows with CI/CD and change-management solutions for controlled execution of fixes.
Three Ways to Get Started with Validata
With a repeatable, evidence-based validation system, migration doesn’t have to be painful. Your modernization project can go off without a hitch. Start with full confidence in your data. Here are a few ways to get started.
- Dive deeper into the technical details. Learn more about Validata’s architecture, the systems it supports, and the best ways to deploy Validata in your environment, via our documentation.
- Book a demo. Get acquainted with Validata’s UI, see Validata’s intuitive configuration engine, and experience firsthand how Validata delivers total data confidence with a personalized demo.
- Meet the team. Book time with our engineers to discover how Validata will build trust in your data and AI initiatives.
