200 Pipelines in 5 Weeks

Demo Dive Series

Legacy migrations are usually measured in quarters, not weeks. Alliant Insurance migrated 200 pipelines in five weeks, cut costs by 55–60%, and finished three months ahead of schedule.

Robert Farley (VP, Director of Data Engineering & Architecture at Alliant) and Karthik Subramanian (Principal Architect at Systech) sit down to walk through exactly how it happened: the SQL Server/SSIS starting point, the Snowflake + Coalesce target, and where Systech’s DBShift automation platform actually moved the needle.

They’ll get specific about the messy parts — access delays, scaling a newly formed data team, driving adoption inside a traditional enterprise — and where automation pays off versus where it doesn’t.

You’ll leave knowing how to:

• Migrate hundreds of legacy pipelines in weeks, not quarters
• Spot where automation delivers real cost and time savings — and where it falls flat
• Drive Snowflake and Coalesce adoption inside a traditional enterprise
• Get ahead of the blockers that stall most migrations