Wherever you are on the data modernization and data intelligence journey, NorthBay Solutions can help you optimize operations, drive innovation, and tap into new opportunities to generate revenue.
How NorthBay Enables Agile Business Intelligence
Now more than ever, data and decision making go hand-in-hand, and many business stakeholders are pressuring IT teams to deliver on the long-overdue promise of providing them with actionable data and analytics.
Most data warehouses can only collect certain types of data, and only generate query-based reports. They take too long to run and are too overwhelming and manual to use. But data lakes can store all types of data at scale, and make it easy for virtually anyone to mine it for insights in near real-time.
Data Lakes vs. Data Warehouses: Key Differences
| How a Data Lake Works | How a Data Warehouse Works | |
|---|---|---|
| Data Type | Unstructured AND structured | Structured Only |
| Data Purpose | Big Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning | Business Intelligence |
| Key Stakeholders | Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Line of Business Professionals | Line of Business Professionals |
| Accessibility | Self-service, Flexible | Can be more complicated, rigid |
NorthBay has architected and implemented hundreds of data lakes and analytics solutions, with services including:
- Creating a data modernization strategy that details how data, people, processes, and technology should work together to achieve business goals.
- Migrating legacy on-premises databases and data warehouse to an AWS-enabled data lake for scalability and agility. In many cases, we take on the heavy lifting so that internal teams can stay focused on day-to-day-operations. Or, we partner closely with internal teams to execute, while fully equipping internal teams via collaboration, knowledge transfer and upskilling.
- Developing data warehouse analytics workloads to translate data into insight and action.
- Ensuring business operations run smoothly with minimal downtime during migration.
NorthBay and AWS: Better, Together
AWS provides the most comprehensive, secure, and cost-effective technology portfolio for developing a data lake solution, as well as building a data lake and analytics architecture. These services include data migration, cloud infrastructure, management tools, analytics services, visualization tools, and machine learning.
As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, NorthBay has a deep understanding of AWS technologies and best practices, and how to best apply them to develop a data lake on AWS, or AWS big data analytics workloads.
Our Expertise
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS
Amazon Neptune
Amazon Aurora
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon DocumentDB (MongoDB compatible
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
Amazon Redshift
Hadoop
MongoDB
Talend
Tableau
Informatica
MS SQL
Lucene
Oracle
Pentaho
R
Solr
Birst
Cassandra
HBase
Amazon Athena
AWS S3
AWS Kafka Elasticsearch
AWS QuickSight
ETL PROCESSING
Amazon EMR
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
The NorthBay Partnership Promise
Team and Business Impact
More than 300 customers have relied on NorthBay to help them reach their business goals and help their teams become highly cloud proficient. Through our OneTeam process, we work in close collaboration and coordination with our customers, and share cloud and AWS best practices so IT teams gain the skills to maintain and optimize the environment moving forward.
Agile Enablement
NorthBay utilizes the agile methodology to quickly and iteratively deliver value in the face of changing business requirements in order to ensure continuous improvement in both the product and the process used. We engage you and your teams in the agile processes as part of the OneTeam approach to maximize collaboration and optimize communication.
Engagement Flexibility
No-cost Jam Sessions
Services and offerings
The AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) partners with customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services. From helping customers run serverless code with AWS Lambda to deploying managed, secure, reliable, and high-performing Windows-based solutions on Amazon EC2 Windows, AWS Service Delivery Partners follow best practices to support customers’ unique use cases.
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) to help organizations develop and execute efficient and effective plans for their cloud adoption journey. The guidance and best practices provided by the framework help you build a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across your organization, and throughout your IT lifecycle. Using the AWS CAF helps you realize measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud. NorthBay conducts Well-Architected Reviews (WAR) at different stages of a workload’s lifecycle to either 1) prepare and plan for migration to the AWS cloud, or 2) ensure that existing cloud workloads continue to be optimized. Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — AWS Well-Architected provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that can scale over time. NorthBay architects specialize in recommendation based on WAR lenses to build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for your business. AWS Lens provides a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement to a specific type of Workload for example SaaS, Analytics etc.
Database Freedom is a unique program designed to assist qualifying customers migrating from traditional database engines to cloud-native ones on AWS. NorthBay has deep expertise in migrating workloads into AWS database technologies, with hundreds of successful migrations.
