Organizations go through migration processes to bring about changes in their IT departments involving hardware, operating systems, and databases. The business drivers for such changes in IT departments can be attributed to:
Consolidation of database platforms, change in hardware and operating systems, and to decommission certain de-supported/obsolete products/technologies
To incorporate the latest hardware, software, and computing paradigms, for example. Blade servers, virtualization, adoption of Oracle Grid Architecture, cloud computing, and so on
To reduce operational costs as a result of consolidation and improved efficiency, bring agility, and provide more business value to the company
Many of these changes result in migrating databases from multiple vendors to Oracle, as well as migrating Oracle databases from one platform to another. Even though we call the process database migration, in reality it may include changes to the frontend applications as...