Europe’s largest telecom operator

Re-platforming a decade-old data warehouse onto Google Cloud

A mission-critical data backbone built over more than ten years, facing a forced decommission date. Moving 5,000 ETL pipelines and 10,000 shell scripts to cloud without changing a single business interface.

Data Transformation

OUTCOME

65%

Of the migration automated

2x

Faster migration timeline

≥99.9%

Data accuracy maintained

CONTEXT

The warehouse had been a mission-critical backbone for over a decade: roughly 5,000 ETL pipelines, 10,000 shell scripts, and more than 6,000 database objects. The underlying Solaris platform was being retired, which forced a full re-platform onto the operator's Google Cloud data ecosystem against a fixed date. Tolerance for disruption was zero. Business semantics and interfaces had to stay unchanged throughout, so the migration had to be invisible to everyone using the data.

SOLUTION

Synapt Data Transformation, deployed to retire a decade of legacy logic without altering how the business consumes it.

  • Schema and pipeline logic captured and replicated automatically

  • Legacy code translated into cloud-native form without hand-rewriting

  • Parallel-run monitoring ahead of final cutover, timed to the decommission deadline

  • GDPR-compliant EU-based delivery, aligned to the operator's data classification requirements

SPOTLIGHT

  1. 01

    Automated extraction

    Schema and pipeline logic captured and replicated without manual mapping

  2. 02

    Automated code conversion

    Legacy code translated to cloud-native form across pipelines and scripts

  3. 03

    Staged cutover

    Parallel-run monitoring ahead of final cutover, on a fixed decommission date

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