Why should you modernize your legacy applications?

Modernization is about taking the DNA, of the original software, and modernizing it to better serve organizational needs. Application modernization boosts innovation because it allows the company to focus on new ideas, processes, and workflows.

Legacy applications are often monolithic, making them difficult to support, update, scale, or access using mobile devices. They can also lead to inaccessible data silos, weakening your decision-making process and cutting you off from valuable data insights. Taking advantage of new cloud technologies helps your organization stay competitive in the marketplace.

Key Benefits of Application Modernization

Most businesses have significant financial and operational investments in their application portfolio. Modernization is an opportunity to increase the benefit of your existing solutions, by leveraging innovation in the cloud. It also leads to rethinking, updating, and improving business processes.

ThreeWill’s application modernization strategy will help your organization increase the speed, scalability, and stability of your business operations. This reduces the resources and costs needed to run an application while delivering new business value. Taking your legacy applications to a whole new level allows your company to take advantage of new, innovative technologies.

Reduce Costs

Transform, migrate, and modernize your digital estate.
Consolidate collaboration and communication platforms in the Microsoft cloud.
Move on-prem legacy client-server applications to browser-based solutions like Microsoft 365 or Azure.
Leverage a modern user experience by shifting on-prem SharePoint applications to Microsoft 365.

Improve Usability

Integrate applications into a single user experience.
Eliminate context switching and multiple application logins.
Establish a Governance Framework with template implementation and automated provisioning.
Create a consistent user experience across organizational, geographic, and team boundaries.

Increase Innovation

Accelerate development and improve time to market with new products, services, or capabilities.
Enable business users to proactively participate in innovation.
Empower new ideas, workflows, and processes that deliver added value to customers.
Provide an interactive mobile user experience to improve performance and collaboration.

The Modernization Journey

Modernization keeps your applications relevant, ensuring they can keep up with users’ needs. An Application Modernization Discovery, Assessment, and Planning effort is the first step in modernizing your legacy applications.

There are a number of options for modernizing your application portfolio, and this helps to assess the overall scope and complexity of your digital estate and to provide an overall modernization roadmap.

Options for each application include:

Leave as-is: Also known as “lift and shift,” this process moves your existing application from a legacy environment to new, modern infrastructure (such as a cloud platform). Little to no changes are made to the application’s underlying architecture or code.
Modernize: This approach essentially restructures the legacy application so it runs efficiently in a new environment. Legacy systems are often modernized incrementally to reduce operational risk. Modernizing includes restructuring the existing code base and rewriting code.
Replace or retire: Business applications sometimes outlive their value to the organization, especially went their functionality is duplicated by other solutions. Retirement removes legacy applications from use but retains access to the application’s data. Legacy data can be stored while mission-critical information is migrated to the new application.

No two organizations have the same application portfolios, so there is no one-size-fits-all roadmap for modernization. ThreeWill works with your organization to review existing requirements and identify the most critical needs. Take the first step to a successful migration journey. Get started with a free, no-obligation service estimate.

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Application Modernization

Systems that handle vital business processes are hard to replace, but keeping legacy applications running smoothly while meeting day-to-day needs can be a time-consuming and resource-intensive affair.