Partners for Database Migration

Since the introduction of the .NET platform, we have developed unique expertise in the replatforming and migration of applications from older or ill-applied technologies to the .NET and SQL Server platforms. Companies often struggle to overcome the barriers to replatforming and migration. Often, the hardest task in the process is evaluating the need to replatform and understanding the resulting benefits. We assist companies in overcoming these hurdles by applying our extensive experience in addressing the business issues first. Then, by applying the proprietary tools we have developed to automate much of the replatforming process we rapidly deliver solutions that work. Contact us for a free replatforming evaluation. We also offer a Replatforming Workshop that can be delivered in your organization designed to familiarize both business managers and technologists with replatforming issues and solutions.

Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them achieve high performance. Accenture's deep industry expertise and practical applications of leading-edge technologies helps its clients achieve high performance in the areas of SAP and Siebel upgrades with a Microsoft re-platform and legacy systems renewal. Accenture has vast experience in helping its clients determine true cost viability and enterprise worthiness of critical business systems when considering upgrades, migration or re-development of existing systems.

AdventNet SwisSQL offers an affordable and complete set of automated database migration solution for SQL Server. SwisSQL offers stored procedure migration from PL/SQL and DB2 SQL to T-SQL. It provides tools for migrating Schema, SQLs and Data from industry leading databases to SQL Server. Visit the SwisSQL site to download FREE editions and to migrate stored procedures online.

ArtinSoft’s free PL/SQL Assessment Tool connects to your Oracle database and analyzes the business logic captured within PL/SQL stored procedures, functions, packages and triggers. It creates a complete inventory of the specific PL/SQL features used in your application as well as a precise estimate of the effort required to convert the code to T-SQL.

When you are ready to make the actual move to SQL Server, ArtinSoft’s new PL/SQL to T-SQL Migration Studio provides a standalone interactive development environment that automates most of the conversion effort. ArtinSoft also offers comprehensive Oracle migration services to save you time and money while minimizing project risk using powerful migration tools and established best practices.

The DB Best Migration Lifecycle Suite is a complete set of tools automating tasks across the lifecycle of a database migration project. The first product is available now for converting Oracle to SQL Server. The toolset regularly achieves up to 99% conversion of parsable objects such as stored procedures, triggers, views and functions. With the suite you get the DB Best Migration Analyzer that gives you the detailed statistics you need to plan your entire project including what manual conversion might be required. You also get the DB Best Data and Schema Migrator and the DB Best SQL Converter that provides the deepest conversion of Oracle objects available. Learn about how you can deliver reliable conversions quickly and inexpensively.

CubePort™ is the most comprehensive software tool available in the marketplace for customers migrating from Essbase to Microsoft Analysis Services. This wizard/application uses best-practices to convert most aspects of an Essbase application to the Microsoft product, including: outlines, loadrules, report scripts, security (users/groups/filters), substitution variables, complex member formulas, etc., saving customers the time and expense of converting applications manually. No other tool offers this level of automation. The product was developed with consideration for transitioning your staff’s knowledge to the new product. Some of the key features are native data loads/reloads, grammar to grammar parser, equivalency library, per cube pricing, competitor reconversion program, and after initial conversion, reconversion of cubes are free with minor changes to the original. Consulting services are available, but usually not required.

Hitachi Consulting’s RDL Generator 2.0 enables faster conversion of existing legacy desktop reports from Crystal Reports (.rpt) to SQL Server Reporting Services RDL format. Together with Hitachi Consulting's conversion services, RDL Generator 2.0 reduces the time and effort required to realize the benefits of SQL Server Reporting Services, a more cost effective, scalable web-services reporting platform.

Migrations are inherrently complex and risky so why not reduce the risk by first migrating your most valuable assets: your Oracle DBAs! Designed and developed by veteran Oracle DBAs jointly with SQL Server DBAs, this three-day, hands-on workshop will provide a quick start for Oracle database administrators who want to leverage their skills, knowledge, and experience to manage a SQL Server database. The skills and experience of an Oracle DBA are invaluable so take the first step to leveraging them on SQL Server.

Symmetry’s QuickConvert is the jumpstart you needed to accelerate your migration from Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Sales Analyzer, or Oracle Financial Analyzer to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. Give Symmetry your Essbase or Express database and Symmetry give you a working SQL Server Analysis Services application so you can compare performance, scalability, and functionality using your own data. See how Analysis Services combines better performance and increased functionality at a substantially lower cost. Using Symmetry’s QuickConvert toolkit, our experts give you results quickly for a fixed price.

Unisys ES7000 server technology and infrastructure services represent the most effective Microsoft environment for large SQL Server databases. Unisys is the leading provider of high-end database servers for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server databases. Our migration services specialists have developed highly-specialized tools and methodologies to deliver real cost reduction, improved systems performance and simplified infrastructures with less risk and the fastest time-to-benefit. We deploy a worldwide network of Microsoft-certified professionals to help large organizations successfully migrate from Oracle to SQL Server through implementation of your ES7000, Microsoft Windows and SQL Server environment. Unisys also offers a complete suite of life cycle services including mainframe class post-implementation monitoring and support services to ensure the ongoing success of your mission critical systems around the clock and around the world.

WisdomForce Technologies, Inc. offers a complete solution for high-speed data transfer from huge production Oracle tables into SQL Server. WisdomForce FastReader™ provides Database Administrators and Data Warehouse Architects with the ability to make a quick snapshot of data from an Oracle database. FastReader can unload and extract Oracle tables of any size (terabytes of data) into portable flat text files in a fraction of time with no system overhead. The user is able to easily configure the output format which can be csv, xml, etc. At the same time, FastReader automatically prepares input for high-speed loader for SQL Server. WisdomForce product can be used not just for migration, but also for scenarios where customers have to integrate SQL and Oracle on a continuing basis.