Your situation
The Snowflake bill is the reason to move. The logic is the reason it is hard.
Credits consumed faster than planned, a commit renewal with a bigger number, and a decision to move some or all of the estate to Databricks. The data moves; the stored procedures, tasks, streams and views are what take the time. Novuz converts them by rule, reconciles every object against its Snowflake output on the same inputs, and gives you a fixed price before you start.
What is happening
What is actually happening?
The finance conversation has happened and the platform team now owns a cost target with a date. Someone has estimated the move by counting tables, and the estimate is wrong because the cost is in the procedures and the task trees, which nobody has counted. Running both platforms in parallel for a year is the risk everyone can see.
The cost of waiting
What does waiting cost?
- Another commit cycle at the number that caused the conversation.
- Dual-running cost for every month the move takes longer than planned.
- The dead objects you are paying compute for and will pay to convert unless someone finds them first.
In three business days
What does the estate assessment give you?
- Every object counted: views, procedures in all three languages, tasks, streams, stages and UDFs.
- The dead code, with evidence.
- A fixed conversion price and a first domain chosen for the biggest compute saving per object.
- A plan for parallel running that ends on a date.
Honest fit
Who should not do this?
- Teams whose cost problem is warehouse sizing rather than estate size; that is a tuning project.
- Estates under about 300 objects.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Will Novuz make the cost case?
No; it gives you the two inputs you cannot get otherwise, the real object count and the dead share, and you make the case in your own numbers.
How long does parallel running last?
One domain at a time: converted, reconciled on the same inputs, cut over. The assessment plans the order.
Is Snowflake also a target you support?
Yes; if you are weighing targets, the assessment prices more than one from the same inventory.
Sources and further reading
- McKinsey & Company, "Tech debt: Reclaiming tech equity," October 2020: CIOs estimate tech debt at 20 to 40 percent of the value of their technology estate, and 60 percent say it has risen
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Technical Debt Management Tools, May 2026: by 2027, 80% of technical debt will be architectural
Written by Debjani Dhar, Co-founder and CEO, Novuz · Technical review: Ted Ghose, Co-founder and CTO, Novuz
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