Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is a standard online data migration tool to transfer data over a network (internet, ER, or VPN). Whereas with offline data migration, users physically ship data-transfer devices from their organization to an Azure Data Center.

Introduction

In the modernized business environment of the cloud transformation journey, customers across the globe face challenges in moving from on-premise to the cloud environment.

Microsoft Azure facilitates fully managed, serverless data integration services to solve the migration issues and enrich data generated in the cloud, by using reference to on-premise or other disparate data sources, which is known as Azure Data Factory (ADF).

HCL Technologies supports its customers by leveraging the support of the Azure Data Factory to provide services for:

About the solution

Azure Data Factory is a simplified platform for application and digital enterprise transformation which helps organizations to migrate to BY cloud from on-prem/3rd Party Cloud Source.

ADF leverages and provides support for the products including Blue Yonder (BY) WMS, BY TMS and luminate products.

Solution Highlights

Completely automated

A comprehensive automation platform which can be configured in minutes with minimal maintenance

Connectors

Provides supports for 50+ integrations to SaaS platforms

100% Complete & accurate data transfer

BY’s robust infrastructure ensures reliable data transfer with zero data loss

Fast transactions

Insert data in BY Cloud environment and process the transactions in seconds

Data management

For hassle-free management, BY offers smart triggers for event processing and push notifications

Why Azure Data Factory can be used for data migration

Azure Data Factory can easily scale up the amount of processing power to move data in a serverless manner with high performance, resilience, and scalability. And you pay only for what you use. Also note the following:

  • Azure Data Factory has no limitations on data volume or on the number of files.
  • Azure Data Factory can fully use your network and storage bandwidth to achieve the highest volume of data movement throughput in your environment.
  • Azure Data Factory uses a pay-as-you-go method, so that you pay only for the time you actually use to run the data migration to Azure.

Azure Data Factory can perform both a one-time historical load and scheduled incremental loads.

Azure Data Factory uses Azure integration runtime (IR) to move data between publicly accessible data lake and warehouse endpoints. It can also use self-hosted IR for moving data for data lake and warehouse endpoints inside Azure Virtual Network (VNet) or behind a firewall.

Azure Data Factory has enterprise-grade security: You can use Windows Installer (MSI) or Service Identity for secured service-to-service integration, or use Azure Key Vault for credential management.

Azure Data Factory provides a code-free authoring experience and a rich, built-in monitoring dashboard.