6 Major Steps for Migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Any major IT platform migration requires a detailed planning, budgeting, approvals from different stake holders, and careful change management. Oracle Cloud migration is very challenging due to the intricate nature of business processes. If the migration is done without proper planning and research, it can have adverse impact on the efficiency of the business. The success of the migration or the failure of it totally depends on the people involved. Effective and proper planning and execution is required so that the migration to Oracle Cloud is done efficiently. The following major steps should be followed to ensure a successful migration to the Oracle Cloud: 

6 Steps to Migrating your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Identify, Analyze, Evaluate, Plan, Finalize & Train

Step 1: Identify Technology Partner

Oracle Cloud infrastructure is a complex architecture. A team of knowledgeable third-party consultants who have prior experience of implementing Oracle Cloud infrastructure need to be engaged for a proper guidance, system configuration, training, and project delivery. Organizations must carefully evaluate their Oracle Cloud infrastructure implementation partner based on their certifications, Oracle expertise earned and prior engagements. 

Step 2: Analyse Current Infrastructure 

A detailed evaluation of the present application including integrations with third-party applications, databases, cloud applications is a very important. This includes application upgrade requirements, patches, version compatibility etc. This is an important step before you plan the migration approach so that any unforeseen challenges can be averted. 

Step 3: Evaluate the infrastructure needs 

It is very important to analyse current capacity and estimate future requirements. IT team should determine how many years of data needs to be carried forward in the Oracle Cloud environment and what resources are needed. This will provide an opportunity to get rid of old data, processes or applications which no longer required for any business purposes. IT team can decide on archival and getting rid of applications not needed for future use. Any legacy applications and data that can be purged, and business critical data, processes and application must be validated before migration. It is advisable to understand tiered pricing model and decide which data and applications needs to be migrated to cloud or otherwise. 

Step 4: Plan 

Oracle Cloud Migration master plan depends on various elements like availability of expert resources, availability of business users during design , requirement gathering and testing phase, version compatibility of all applications , systems that interact with the Oracle Cloud on a regular basis, size of the current database, growth projections to maintain reserve capacity. The business-critical applications should also be considered, and the time frame of Oracle Cloud migration should also be analysed. These factors will help decide if the entire Oracle Cloud Implementation can be accomplished in one phase or if we need multiple phases. 

Step 5: Finalize Design 

Understanding business requirements and pain points is very important step before designing a new Oracle Cloud infrastructure. A team of system users must list down their expectations from the new Oracle Cloud infrastructure. A team of architects will then identify gaps in the current infrastructure and address it in the design for the new Oracle Cloud infrastructure. Leadership team need to review recommendations given by the Oracle Cloud architects and decide on business priorities. Based on this decision, the Oracle Cloud implementation team will proceed with system design, building prototype, and workload migration. 

Step 6: Training 

Proper training plan must be developed to train existing employees on the Oracle Cloud infrastructure. Existing employees must be encouraged to get certified in the new technology. The implementation consulting team must be engaged to prepare detail training material. Training can be delivered in 'Train the Trainer' format, videos, training documents. External online trainings can be subscribed as well.

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