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Application Modernization

Digital Delivery Agility for Continuous Business Innovation

APP MODERNIZATION

Keep your business innovating and competing with high-performance. Continuously.

An Application Modernization strategy gives you the ability to keep competitively innovating with digital initiatives by enabling the creation of new business capabilities and new operational models in a fast-paced market. With extensive experience and strong cloud platform partnerships, we provide the right tools, skills, and methodologies to execute that strategy. We help enterprises become more agile to reduce time to market and reduce costs to drive a true ecosystem transformation.

Let us help you unlock the cloud’s real potential for your business and drive high performance with speed and stability, continuously.

Don’t get left behind. Modern applications are
built for the ever-changing world

Innovate and
Compete

Increase top-line results by enabling new business capabilities and operational models. Old and closed technology architectures can slow down your ability to keep experiences fresh and customers happy.

Improve Digital 
Delivery Agility

Continuous delivery and resilience have a direct impact on business performance by increasing agility and speed  in recovering from deployment failures and reducing lead times. Modern cloud-native architectures build and deploy software in a way that increases digital delivery agility, reduces IT backlog, and allows for quicker reaction to customer feedback, all critical components of the elite performers' toolset.

Mitigate 
Risks

Dated and legacy architectures are often built on top of vulnerabilities that cyberattacks can exploit. Some of these architectures don’t meet compliance requirements or new regulations (e.g. data privacy). Dealing with monolithic and highly-coupled architectures means that changes may create a much higher risk of security breaches. A well-defined modernization strategy can close security and compliance gaps.

5 Elements

for a proper application modernization strategy

CI&T's Application Modernization Approach

01.  Business Alignment
and Impact

Align your application modernization business case to business objectives, priorities, and the future. Define the business imperatives and unfold your modernization to unlock value sooner rather than later.

Strategic Mapping:
A proprietary methodology to identify, quantify and measure business impact throughout the entire program. We'll partner with your team to create the business case and KPIs that support the initiative.

Technology Assessment
(powered by DORA):
Evaluation of the current state of technology and digital capabilities. We'll prioritize the capabilities to be improved in the next cycle (3-months) and establish a continuous process to reassess and prioritize new ones.

02.  Cloud-Native
Platforms

Leveraging a modern cloud platform as the foundation for your modernization efforts is imperative to gain competitive advantages. Scalability, availability, global distribution, security standards, and ready-to-use managed services are essential to any modern architecture.

Cloud Migration:
If your company is not using any cloud platform, we can help you with the cloud setup and migration. This includes defining the migration plan and every technical decision regarding cloud adoption: security, network, hybrid cloud setup, and more.

Cloud Architecture:
Definition and validation of the target architecture for the application being modernized. Using the best-in-class cloud products to deliver a flawless customer experience with built-in security and compliance with all your standards.

03.  Product
Mindset

Avoid the high risk of disruption and uncertainty with a more modern approach to migration that counts on migration waves and incremental updates of legacy systems into efficient microservices. Customer-centric design, outcome-oriented development, and analytics-first decision-making are the foundations of a successful digital product.

Product Development:
Following the business goals and target architecture, we build and deliver the new platforms and experiences incrementally. We will support the deployment of the correct teams' topology to deliver at speed and at scale.

CX:
We partner with you to understand your customer and to prototype and validate the whole digital experience with them. We can also help you to deploy a solid customer analytics strategy that captures customers' behavior and metrics in production.

04.  New Cloud
Operating Model

Many times, legacy applications are maintained and evolved using legacy software development practices and processes that are scarce. Reviewing the operating model - which includes Cloud and DevSecOps components - is foundational to a modernization strategy.

SRE / DevSecOps:
Deploy tools, practices, and culture to operate applications in the new cloud-native environment. Continuous delivery, telemetry, error budget, post-mortem analysis, and many other techniques will elevate a new level of deployment and reliability.

05.  People &
Culture

The modernization program will require new skills, processes, and mindsets. Ensuring proper change management, closing knowledge gaps, and providing safety for people is essential to landing all the new digital capabilities.

Insourcing / Cross-pollination:
With experience and expertise we understand the importance of deploying new competencies inside teams. Partnering with your people we’ll share experiences and knowledge to close gaps and develop new skills within the teams.

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