TDWI Checklist Report | Data Onboarding for Cloud Data Lakes
July 17, 2020
The process of cloud migration and modernization requires attention to many discrete details at the operational level.
Whether you are thinking about the details of data migration, the life cycle associated with application operation and its dependence on data, or even the proliferation of a wider variety of data source types, the process of data onboarding itself poses some degree of complexity.
Growing data volumes will overburden manual attempts at data ingestion, so plan for data onboarding that encompasses the full life cycle of data ingestion, synchronization, pipeline orchestration, and governance.
This checklist explains five ways to support data onboarding and simplify cloud data migration and modernization. Together, these recommendations will not only reduce the complexity of data ingestion, they can also establish good data governance that raises the quality and utility of enterprise data.