AI-augmented data engineering

The data foundation enterprise AI needs

Novaala combines deep data engineering expertise with AI-augmented delivery to modernize legacy pipelines, migrate to modern platforms, and build the governed data foundation that agentic AI, RAG, and analytics depend on.

The Modernization Canvas

A structured framework for platform modernization

The Modernization Canvas is the framework Novaala uses to assess, plan, and execute enterprise data platform modernization - reducing guesswork and giving stakeholders a shared view of scope, sequencing, and risk before migration begins. The Canvas is delivered in three phases across eight working days, with a migration path and a greenfield path depending on where the client is starting from.

Phase 1 · Days 1–2

Assess

  • For migration: source-connected estate inventory, metadata extraction, dependency mapping
  • For greenfield: data feed analysis, KPI capture, business objective mapping

What you get: a full inventory of the data estate, live object counts, dependencies, and metadata — or a clean greenfield input map for teams starting fresh.

Phase 2 · Days 3–6

Plan

  • Granular complexity scoring
  • Target architecture design (lakehouse, medallion, workspaces)
  • Detailed work breakdown structure, effort estimation, and skills matrix
  • Wave plan and risk register

What you get: a complexity-scored, architecture-grounded plan with effort estimates thorough enough for a director to sign off on.

Phase 3 · Days 7–8

Convert and handover

  • Target data models and DDL
  • Auto-generated ETL pipelines
  • Bulk-converted sample code
  • Synthetic samples for safe validation
  • Canvas handover and knowledge transfer

What you get: working code, synthetic data for validation, and a Canvas the client's own team owns and runs going forward.

Data engineering accelerators

Purpose-built accelerators that compress migration timelines

The Canvas is powered by a library of seven reusable, AI-augmented accelerators.

MigrateTo Fabric

Automated migration path onto Microsoft Fabric.

Reverse Engineer

Reconstructs the existing estate, schemas, and dependencies.

Forward Engineer

Generates target data models and DDL for the new architecture.

Code Conversion

Bulk-converts legacy ETL and SQL code to the target platform.

Metadata Intelligence

Builds a governed metadata and lineage layer across the estate.

Synthetic Data

Produces synthetic samples for safe, production-like validation.

Ask Data

Natural language interface for querying and exploring enterprise data.

Platform coverage

Platforms we modernize onto

Microsoft Fabric

Accelerator-led migration from legacy SQL, Synapse, and on-prem estates onto OneLake and Fabric warehouses.

Snowflake

Warehouse modernization with automated conversion of legacy ETL, stored procedures, and SQL dialects.

Databricks

Lakehouse engineering on Delta Lake for analytics, streaming, and ML-ready governed data products.

Google BigQuery

Serverless warehouse migration with SQL dialect conversion and cost-governed dataset design.

Amazon Redshift

Estate modernization and workload tuning - or structured migration onto your next target platform.

Engagement models

Flexible ways to start the modernization

Modernization assessment

Canvas-led evaluation of current state and target architecture.

Migration sprint

Accelerator-led migration of a defined workload or platform.

Foundation build

Semantic layer, governance, and metadata architecture for AI readiness.

Managed modernization

Phased, multi-workload migration program.

Start the conversation

Start with one focused data foundation challenge

Bring one legacy pipeline, one migration target, or one data platform decision - and assess where the Modernization Canvas and accelerators can compress the path to an AI-ready foundation.

Start with an assessment