Flagship Modernization Accelerator

Clarity for Complex Data Environments

Aurora is Zencos’ guided, fixed-scope modernization assessment for complex data, analytics, and AI estates. It helps organizations understand their current environment, evaluate modernization options, and make confident roadmap decisions before committing to larger transformation investments.

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Why Modernization Efforts Stall

Modernization initiatives often begin without full visibility into complexity, dependencies, and risk.

The challenge is not only collecting information. It is determining what matters, what should stay, what should move, what should be modernized or retired, and how to sequence change without creating unnecessary risk.

CHALLENGE

Incomplete Estate Visibility

Key assets, dependencies, and integration points are often spread across teams and platforms.

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Unclear Target-State Choices

Difficulty deciding what belongs in cloud data platforms, analytics tools, BI environments, or AI-ready architectures.

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Weak Sequencing Logic

Teams need to know what should move first, what should remain in place, and what can be retired.

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Governance and Continuity Risk

Security, compliance, and operational considerations surface too late when they are not assessed up front.

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Executive Uncertainty

Leadership needs a defensible modernization path tied to business priorities and delivery realities.

What Aurora Is

Aurora is a productized modernization assessment and planning engagement.

It is not a generic scanner, not a metadata catalog, and not a one-size-fits-all migration engine. Aurora combines available technical artifacts, guided discovery, AI-assisted analysis, and consultant validation to turn estate complexity into a decision-ready modernization plan.

Aurora can work with many types of inputs, including:

Stakeholder interviews

Guided questionnaires

Platform-generated assessment outputs

Cloud and platform inventories

Scheduler and pipeline metadata

BI and reporting inventories

Application & integration documentation

Architecture diagrams

Platform-Neutral by Design

Aurora evaluates modernization options based on business goals, architecture fit, workload characteristics, governance requirements, and long-term operating model needs.

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SAS 9 and SAS Viya

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Snowflake data platforms

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Microsoft Azure environments

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Databricks lakehouse architectures

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AWS-based analytics ecosystems

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Hybrid and on-prem deployments

How Aurora Works

Intake and Discovery

Aurora begins with the artifacts your environment already has, supplemented by guided workshops, questionnaires, and targeted information gathering where needed.

Structured Analysis

Workloads, dependencies, constraints, business drivers, and modernization priorities are normalized and evaluated in a repeatable advisory workflow.

Recommendation Development

Consultant-led, AI-assisted analysis evaluates target-state options, sequencing logic, and modernization pathways across relevant platforms.

Roadmap and Delivery Path

Aurora produces a recommended approach, phased roadmap, key risks, indicative level of effort, and a transition path into implementation, hosting, or managed support.

From Assessment to Enterprise Modernization

Aurora establishes the foundation for modernization by turning fragmented inputs into a practical, decision-ready plan that supports migration, coexistence, optimization, and phased transformation.

From there, Zencos can support execution across architecture, migration, validation, and operationalization.

Assess

Gather and evaluate the information needed to understand the current state.

Recommend

Define target-state options and a practical modernization direction.

Plan

Sequence the work into phases, waves, and delivery priorities.

Execute

Move into implementation, validation, and managed optimization with Zencos support.

What You Receive

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Modernization Recommendation

A clear view of what should stay, what should move, what should be modernized, what should be retired, and what should coexist.

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Target-State Guidance

Recommended platform alignment across cloud, analytics, BI, AI, and hybrid environments.

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Phased Roadmap

A sequenced plan that organizes modernization into realistic waves.

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Risk and Dependency Insights

Visibility into business, technical, operational, and governance considerations.

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Indicative LOE and Delivery Options

Early effort guidance and next-step delivery paths for implementation and support.

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Executive-Ready Output

A summary leadership can use to align priorities, budget discussions, and next actions.

Why Structured Modernization Matters

A smaller, structured investment upfront can prevent larger missteps later.

Aurora helps organizations reduce modernization risk, improve sequencing and scope confidence, and make better investment decisions before entering full delivery.

83% of executives say modernization is central to business strategy

Yet only 27% say they have modernized many of the workflows and systems required.

Only 10% of cloud transformations achieve full value

Better sequencing and modernization discipline matter more than ever.

80% say data silos hinder digital transformation

And 72% report systems that are overly dependent on one another.

Managing cloud spend is the top cloud challenge

29% of respondents report spending more than $12 million annually on cloud.

READY TO MODERNIZE?

Modernization Starts with Clarity

Start with a defined advisory engagement that reduces uncertainty before larger implementation decisions are made.

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