Future proof your business with Application Modernization

Ever so often we see a multitude of new businesses with innovative ideas appearing in the market only to disappear as quickly as they came. While a strong business proposition can help you set foot in the market, adapting quickly and keeping up with the ever-changing market is imperative when it comes to establishing a long-term strategy. Most businesses still have outdated on-prem apps and infrastructure which does not allow them to thrive in the digital world. So how can you ensure that your business is ready to combat any and all challenges that can arise in the future? One fail-safe way is to ensure that your applications are future-proof and can adapt quickly to the market requirements

Solution:

Application modernization is the process of developing applications that facilitate fast innovation, deliver a consistent development and operations experience, and leverage breakthrough technologies all while keeping costs to a minimum. While this has been the key differentiators for all digital native companies disrupting the core industries, even enterprises can achieve similar agility by modernizing their legacy applications.

?Some of its core benefits are:

• Increase deployment agility and speed
• Speed up time to market
• Ensure reliability and security
• Scale with ease
• Optimize for cost
• Simplify infra management and developer experience

The approach:

The first step towards the modernization drive is to do a thorough analysis of your current applications and bucket them depending on:

• Technology Stack
• Criticality?
• Integrations?
• Ease of refactoring?

The 7 R’s:

Depending on the classification, the next step is to divide the applications into an action plans. You can use 7 Rs as an option while deciding your course of action.?

1. Retire: Decide which applications are dead weight for your organization and retire them. This will help you save costs and enable you to optimize the applications that really matter faster and more efficiently.
2. Retain: Identify the applications that are too important to get rid of but too costly to migrate straightaway.
3. Rehost: Migrate your existing on-prem applications as-is to the cloud with minimal effort. When speed is your top priority, this solution is most effective in the short term.
4. Replatform: Migrate to an operating system in the cloud while maintaining your core infrastructure, and optimizing your code for cloud usage.
5. Replace: Replacing applications that are currently deployed on-prem with an open-source server in the SaaS model. Perfect for when you are looking for more long-term solutions to serve your business needs.?
6. Refactor: Changing the existing architecture and reworking the code significantly to optimize your application for the cloud. The ideal solution is when you want to scale, add features or enhance performance.
7. Rearchitect: Ideal for when your existing apps no longer seem to suit your needs in the long term and you need to reimagine your tech stack and modernize your app from scratch

Reach out:

Ready to start reaping the benefits of App Modernization? Look no further. Whether you’re looking to migrate your on-prem apps to containers or start building your apps from scratch on Cloud, we have the perfect solution for you. So what are you waiting for? Reach out to us and start getting your business future-ready, today!