Modernize Your Applications
Justify modernizing your application portfolio from both business and technical perspectives.
Onsite Workshop
Running and maintaining legacy applications can result in:
- Maintenance costs consuming most of the application team’s budget.
- Limiting the business’ ability to modify and expand their capabilities or adjust to changing business conditions.
- Missing productivity and innovation opportunities with new technologies.
A solid application modernization business case leads to:
- Greater insight to the rationale behind an application modernization initiative.
- Modernization risks, impacts, benefits, and costs communicated in the business language.
- Higher chances of approval for an application modernization initiative.
Module 1: Define the Drivers for Modernization
The Purpose
- Evaluate your application portfolio assessment to shortlist applications to modernize.
- Gauge the alignment of your application shortlist to business and technical drivers and the resilience to external factors in order to select the ideal modernization candidate.
Key Benefits Achieved
- The selection of an application to modernize justified by application rationalization and its satisfaction of high-priority business and technical drivers.
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| 1.1 | Define the business drivers behind your modernization initiative. |
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| 1.2 | Define the technical drivers behind your modernization initiative. |
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| 1.3 | Understand the external factors influencing your modernization initiative. |
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| 1.4 | Select your modernization candidate. |
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Module 2: Define and Assess Modernization Alternatives
The Purpose
- Reveal the current issues, constraints, and modernization opportunities of the selected application with a diagnostic.
- Design modernization alternatives based on the results of your diagnostic.
- Complete an impact, cost-benefit, and risk assessment to select the ideal alternative to leverage.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Designing multiple options for modernization that accommodate the business and technical complexities of the application. Justification behind the selection of a modernization alternative based on risks, costs, and impacts.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Diagnose your application. |
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| 2.2 | Develop application modernization alternatives. |
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| 2.3 | Conduct a cost-benefit analysis of your modernization alternatives. |
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| 2.4 | Complete a risk assessment of your modernization alternatives. |
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| 2.5 | Select a modernization alternative to recommend. |
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Module 3: Complete the Case
The Purpose
- Build a plan to define milestones and roll out application modernization initiative.
- Identify project stakeholders in order to tailor the business case to their language and to ensure their expectations are met.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A completed business case tailored to the stakeholder’s language that contains the relevant information the stakeholder needs to make an informed decision.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Create your application modernization plan. |
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| 3.2 | Define your modernization project metrics. |
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| 3.3 | Recognize your project stakeholders. |
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| 3.4 | Finalize and monitor your business case. |
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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