Application Modernization

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2. Overview For digital transformation, businesses have to integrate applications with cutting edge and emerging technologies like data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT and so on. This can be a barrier for monolith applications. Over time, organization’s develop, procure, customize and deploy many solutions and services that addresses the specific business need, but they do not realize the complexities and inefciencies it brings to the system as a whole. In some cases, it reaches to the extent that full benefits can’t be realized. Larger organizations even have hundreds or thousands of applications in the portfolio. To overcome this, the organizations have to perform Application Modernization by updating their legacy code and adopting modern technologies and cloud native applications. To fully exploit the cloud, they have to carefully decide which of these applications need to be modernized. In simple words, Application Modernization is the process of updating an app so that it can be maintained, extended, deployed and managed in a way that allows the business to transform, innovate and meet their future needs. APPLICATION MODERNIZATION 01

3. Benefits of Application Modernization Mobility When you modernize your existing enterprise applications, you can ease your transition to a hybrid cloud environment by gaining the flexibility to run your apps wherever you want, whenever you want. Flexibility Embracing a cloud-native microservices approach will allow you to capitalize on the scalability and flexibility inherent to cloud. It will open the door to several business and technical benefits for your organization. Lesser Time-To-Market As you embark on your modernization journey, a culture of DevOps and automation is crucial for success. The primary benefits of app modernization is more-frequent software deliveries with higher quality. This can be achieved through an efective DevOps and automation strategy. Do I Need Modernization? The first and the foremost aspect every business has to think of is “Do I need Application Modernization”. We shall like to list down few reasons on why should any organization modernize. • Are you able to make necessary changes to your legacy application? • Are you able to add new features or capabilities to your legacy application? • Are you able to utilize resources and services to full potential? • Are you able to break the data silos and extract actionable insights? • Do you face security issues and vulnerabilities by using monolith applications? • Are your administrative eforts increasing in managing the existing infrastructure? 02

4. Application Modernization Process The process of Application Modernization is divided into 4 steps: Assess Build Deploy Run Although there is no single route, but the process begins with the deep application portfolio readiness assessment and identifying the applications that can be readily moved into the cloud or that would require refactoring. Select the best options based on the business requirements and assessment of the legacy system. Leverage containers as the foundation for application and services. Use DevOps pipeline to quickly and reliably deploy the code using automation. Develop a common management and operations approach to run the application seamlessly and for faster problem resolution. 03

5. The Modernization Approach Over time, organization’s develop, procure, customize and deploy many solutions and services that addresses the specific business need, but they do not realize the complexities and inefciencies it brings to the system as a whole. In some cases, it reaches to the extent that full benefits can’t be realized. Many diferent approaches are available to modernize the applications. Choose the approach that best suits your business requirements. • Follow agile methodology to incrementally strangle the monolith application into microservices and modern application • Migrate monolith applications to docker containers as they wrap up software and its dependencies into a standardized unit for software development that includes everything it needs to run. • Refactor or modernize monolith applications into smaller deployable components or microservices based on business objective and requirements to reduce cost. • Re-platform applications that needs some optimization without changing the core architecture of application. • Replace part of the legacy applications with cloud-native microservices. • Add new microservices to innovate, add new features, and reduce complexity. • Expose APIs for part of the legacy application that are on-premises. The Successive’s Advantage In Application Modernization, we can help you with: Some of the things that we do in Modernization are: • Discover and assess legacy applications and understand impact of changes. • Re-engineer to operate traditional apps and cloud-native apps seamlessly • Optimize services, performance, and pricing with SaaS & PaaS oferings • Embrace a DevOps culture across the board • Use microservices, containerized architecture to scale seamlessly and achieve significant savings • Reduce development overhead, time, & efort and build innovative & amazing products • Re-architect and modernize technology stack • Re-design application with modular approach • Re-write based on new framework and language • Re-build CI/CD pipelines for faster release cycles 04

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