Cloud Migration: Best Practices & Benefits

Archetype Consulting's Co-Founder & Analytics Practice Lead, Max Gomez, shares insights into cloud migration in an interview. He discusses the concept of a "cloud-first strategy" and its importance for businesses looking to move away from traditional hardware solutions. Concerns around security and cost are addressed, with suggestions on how to overcome them. The benefits of moving to the cloud include scalability, ease of use, cost savings, instant access, and reduced downtime. Gomez also highlights that almost all companies leverage the cloud in some capacity for business and cost-efficiency purposes. He emphasizes the need for businesses to understand their goals and dependencies before starting a cloud migration process. Some challenges faced during this process include resource constraints and the need for support with best practices and new architectures. The benefits of the cloud, both immediate and long-term, are highlighted as speed to implement, cost savings, and cultural impacts such as training and education with a data-first mentality. An example project is provided where Archetype Consulting helped ASA in Boston transform their business model by creating a near-term and long-term data strategy and implementing Fivetran, Snowflake, and Tableau for data integration, storage, and visualization.