ATG Migrate & Connect: The New Lift & Shift
In the early days of cloud computing, the “Lift and Shift” migration strategy was a fast and cost-effective option for virtually everyone moving from on-prem servers to the cloud.
Since the cloud environment wasn’t dramatically different in architecture from a traditional data center, moving an application over largely unchanged was a reasonably sound option for most workloads.
As cloud-native services matured and pricing models shifted toward consumption-based billing, Lift and Shift began to require heavy optimization after the fact. It can still be a great option, but with today’s cloud structures, Lift and Shift has effectively become Lift, Shift, & Optimize.
The AEC industry runs into its own version of this problem with project data.
Every time a project changes hands, moves to a new platform, or brings on a new contractor, someone has to move the data, and that move usually strips away the context that made it useful in the first place. For example, version history, creation dates, who created, or last modified it.
So what’s the answer? “Migrate and Connect”
Our ATG Migrate service lifts all your project data, no matter where it’s hosted, and shifts it into Forma.
The structure and context stay intact: every version history, creation date, and modification record carries over exactly as it was, not rebuilt from scratch on the other side. Once your project data is migrated, ATG Connect keeps it moving by synchronizing data across your platforms and your contractor’s platforms as project data changes. That synchronization covers more than the raw values sitting in a field, it includes all the metadata that provides context and makes it trustworthy.
Migrate and Connect is the true fix. It’s the Life, Shift, & Optimize for AEC.
Moving data once was never the “real” finish line. Data that gets moved without being adapted to its new environment eventually falls behind the platform it’s running on.
Project data works the same way.
Data that gets migrated once and then left alone starts drifting the moment the next contractor comes on board, the next platform gets added, or the next version supersedes what was migrated so carefully. ATG Migrate and ATG Connect are built around that reality from day one, instead of discovering it a year into a project when two platforms no longer match.
