Organizations must leverage on their ever increasing data piles to help employees and management to make informed decisions and grow business. Going forward, companies will face existential crisis if they do not put their data to work by modernizing their legacy systems and technologies. Building a data strategy to modernize legacy technologies is a sure way for successful implementation of data modernization projects. Data strategy must be looked as a long-term plan rather than a short term fix and it must include provisions that detail the roles of people, technologies and processes to solve data-related issues and challenges. Same case applies to business IT systems and applications. Organizations spend huge money in setting up their IT systems. Nevertheless, there comes a time when every business enterprise must upgrade to newer versions or replace their legacy systems with more agile cloud technologies.