Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red’s system refuses to die
The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed it no longer runs a single data warehouse after moving analytics products off its Oracle system to a range of services for AWS, Oracle Cloud, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. This follows the £176.3bn-revenue department’s award of a £3m contract to Methods Business and Digital Technology. The vendor has been charged with the migration of analytics products from Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to the Data Services Platform, an AWS-based environment. The contract award notice said: «A Re-engineering Discovery team will assess the current state of data in DWP warehouses and recommend an approach to migration/reengineer data to the Data Services Platform (DSP). Two Re-Engineering Delivery teams with design, develop end migrate required Products, redesigning manufacturing processes optimised for the new environments.» The DWP is an Oracle shop as far as its ERP and business applications go, although its long-term future with Big Red has been up in the air since the publication of its Shared Services Strategy in March.
