Migration
Platform Migration
Moving applications from a legacy or end-of-life identity platform to its replacement in waves, with both platforms serving users until the last cutover.
How it works
A platform migration in waves
The problem
- The current platform is out of support or out of contract, and every application depends on it.
- Nobody has a complete list of what is integrated with it, or how.
- A single cutover weekend is too risky, and running two platforms indefinitely is too expensive.
What we do
Most identity migrations get into trouble in the middle rather than at the start or the end: the stretch when some applications use the new platform and some still use the old one. We plan that stretch first.
Our engineers also write about working on these platforms, including an experiment in using a language model to debug authentication journeys on Ping Advanced Identity Cloud, in the post linked below.
What you get
- An inventory of every integration, grouped into migration waves by risk.
- A co-existence design so that both platforms serve users during the move.
- Each wave migrated, tested and cut over, with a rollback that has been rehearsed.
- The legacy platform decommissioned at the end rather than left running.
How it is usually shaped
Scoped in application waves, with old and new running in parallel. The co-existence period is the part that decides whether it works.
Platforms
- Ping Identity
- ForgeRock
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