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Data Platform Modernisation 

Unlock the data sitting in your legacy systems and build a foundation your teams can actually act on.

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Data that works as hard
as your business does

Legacy data systems create the same problems as legacy applications. They accumulate cost, slow the business down and build up compliance risk that compounds over time. Data platform modernisation from Altron replaces costly, inflexible legacy data infrastructure with scalable, cloud-native pipelines that are faster, cheaper and auditable.

We assess your data estate, including where it lives, who uses it and what insights you are missing, then build a modernised platform designed to support both your operational and your analytical workloads.

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Cost reduction achieved for a law enforcement portal
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Performance improvement
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Ingestion capability delivered
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Accuracy of data lineage traceability

How we modernise data platforms

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Discovery and data assessment The assessment costs you nothing

We find out what you actually have

We assess your data estate to understand where data lives, how it moves and where the gaps, risks and inefficiencies are. We work with you to decide what to replace, what to migrate and what to retire.

  • Where your data lives and how it moves
  • Gaps, risks and inefficiencies mapped
  • What to replace, migrate and retire
  • A costed picture before you commit

What you get

Data estate map Risk register Target architecture Business case
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Platform Design and build Sized for real volumes

A platform built for how you actually run

We design and build a modern data platform that fits your environment: scalable, cloud-native and capable of handling the volumes your business actually runs at. Lineage and traceability are built in from the start rather than retrofitted once the platform is live.

  • Architecture designed for your environment
  • Cloud-native, serverless pipelines built
  • Lineage and traceability from day one
  • Sized for real volumes, not demo volumes

Built on

AWS Serverless Version-controlled Auditable
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Deployment Hyper care after go-live

We stay with you past go-live

Deployment, validation and hyper care support. Every stage has defined outputs and sign-off criteria, so you always know what you are getting and when.

  • Deployment and validation
  • Hyper care support after launch
  • Defined outputs at every stage
  • Sign-off criteria agreed up front

Four stages

Discover Design Build Deploy

Technology built on AWS

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Amazon Web Services

Our primary platform for data platform modernisation. Serverless services keep the running cost down and the pipeline auditable.

  • Serverless ingestion at petabyte scale
  • Automated audit trails
  • Version-controlled pipeline code
  • Hosted in South Africa

Where this has already worked

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Government Law enforcement portal

A proprietary ETL system at end of life, replaced with a serverless ingestion pipeline on AWS

18% Cost reduction, with a 46% performance improvement alongside it
Half a petabyte Ingestion capability, with full data lineage and traceability
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Compliance and lineage built in from the start.

Data platform modernisation removes the compliance risk that accumulates in legacy, ungoverned data systems. Every engagement includes full data lineage and traceability from the outset, so you can demonstrate data provenance for audit and regulatory purposes.

For South African organisations, POPIA compliance and data residency are addressed in the platform design phase. AWS serverless architectures give you automated audit trails and version-controlled pipeline code.

Related capabilities

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Application modernisation

Data platform modernisation sits alongside application modernisation as part of one integrated programme.

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Cloud acceleration

Modern data platforms are typically delivered into cloud environments - this is how we handle the infrastructure layer.

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DevSecOps and delivery

The pipelines and practices that keep data platform deployments secure, automated, and auditable.
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Enterprise application services

Keep your enterprise applications integrated with the modernised data layer. 
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Not sure what your legacy data infrastructure is really costing you? We'll give you an honest picture.
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