Strategic Application Modernization Assessment
Amazing happens when legacy app snags are a thing of the past.
Monolithic applications can slow down digital transformation and make it impossible to keep up with changing customer expectations. Modernize legacy systems with CDW’s Strategic Application Modernization Assessment (SAMA). Our fully automated, proprietary reporting tool analyzes your organization's application portfolio based on age, security and complexity issues.
Application Modernization Benefits
Increase ROI
Extend the life of your monolithic applications and minimize technical debt by determining the most cost-effective option for modernization.
Accelerate Digital Transformation
Enable the ability to deliver new features faster, offer new services, integrate modern technologies, provide a seamless customer experience, and more.
Strengthen Application Security
Outdated applications that cannot be supported by modern security standards can provide an open gateway for threats. Modernization greatly mitigates those vulnerabilities.
Improve Reliability
Through modernization, you can eliminate outdated code, bugs and roadblocks preventing an app from performing consistently.
Adopt Cloud Technology
Modernizing legacy applications enables you to migrate them to the cloud, unlocking new levels of agility and the ability to scale resources as needed.
Simplify Maintenance
Reduce the amount of resources, time and budget it requires to run and update an application by eliminating outdated code and tedious processes through modernization.
Key Steps in Application Modernization
1. Rehost
Also known as a “lift and shift” migration, rehosting means migrating a workload to a public cloud environment without modifications.
2. Refactor
Refactoring involves making changes to an app’s code without altering its overall functionality. This can improve performance and reduce maintenance burdens.
3. Rebuild
Sometimes called “revise” or “rewrite,” this option results in more fundamental changes that lead to improved functionality.
4. Replatform
With this option, an application is moved to the public cloud, but it is first overhauled to make it more cloud-native, often via containerization.
5. Retain
During a modernization effort, leaders may decide to leave some applications alone, especially those employed by relatively few users.
6. Retire
In some cases, leaders may decide that an application is no longer necessary and opt to retire it completely.
7. Replace
Finally, it may make sense to replace some applications with new off-the-shelf solutions. This is often a fast and cost-effective option, but project leaders must ensure that the replacement app will fully meet the organization’s needs.
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