Modernizing Data and Analytics Environments with Snowflake: Introducing Aurora
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Organizations today are increasingly evaluating how to modernize their data and analytics environments while continuing to support critical legacy platforms.
Many enterprises rely on technologies such as SAS for essential ETL, analytics, and reporting workloads. As these organizations evolve, they are exploring a range of modernization paths, including optimizing existing platforms, adopting hybrid architectures, and extending into cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.
To support this journey, Zencos has developed Aurora, an AI-assisted modernization advisor designed to help customers better understand their current environments and make informed, strategic decisions about the future of their data platforms.
Aurora analyzes existing system artifacts to provide:
- Visibility into workloads, dependencies, and use cases
- Identification of modernization opportunities across platforms
- A phased roadmap aligned to business priorities and technical requirements
Aurora is platform-neutral, supporting multiple modernization paths, including SAS Viya, Snowflake, and hybrid architectures, allowing organizations to identify the approach that best fits their needs.
As part of our collaboration with Snowflake, Aurora helps customers:
- Better understand complex, legacy environments
- Identify high-value use cases aligned to Snowflake
- Plan a structured transition into, alongside, or in coexistence with Snowflake
Aurora is particularly valuable in SAS-heavy environments, where understanding workload complexity and defining a clear modernization path is critical.
Aurora also works alongside Snowflake’s migration ecosystem, including SnowConvert AI for code conversion and SnowLift for data migration, enabling a seamless progression from discovery to execution when Snowflake is part of the modernization strategy.
Together, Zencos and Snowflake support customers in turning complex data environments into clear, actionable modernization plans, reducing uncertainty, accelerating decision-making, and enabling long-term success.
We’re excited to continue working with Snowflake, SAS, and our broader partner ecosystem to help customers modernize with confidence.
👉 Learn more about Aurora:
https://zencos.com/solutions/aurora-modernization-advisor
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