Application Modernisation
Accelerate application migration and modernisation.
Integral specialises in modernising outdated systems, improving business processes, and enhancing customer, citizen, and staff experiences.
Modernising applications is crucial for achieving digital transformation and business agility. Early adopters have seen significant benefits, prompting others to prioritise this initiative.
What is legacy system modernisation?
Legacy System Modernisation involves updating old business systems to make them more efficient, cost-effective, and aligned with current technology.
Why is it important to modernise or migrate from legacy applications?
Upgrading or transforming outdated systems into more contemporary, efficient and adaptable solutions has numerous benefits for your organisation:
- Enhance business processes and improve customer, citizen and staff experience.
- Improve your governance, risk and security compliance.
- Improve data quality, integration and workflows.
- Remove unnecessary cost, risk and inefficiency from the business.
Application modernisation benefits
The 6 R's: 6 common Application Migration Strategies
There are now 6 common Application Migration Strategies (Gartner's original 5R's were coined as far back as 2011). The options for modernising your technology applications and related operational processes include:
- Rehost: Move to new infrastructure without code changes.
- Replatform: Change runtime platforms with minimal code changes.
- Repurchase/Replace: Eliminate and replace the application. Improve existing code.
- Refactor/Re-architect: Re-imagine how the application is architected and developed, typically using cloud-native features.
- Retire: As it says, this option means you simply turn this application off after determining it is no longer needed by the business.
- Retain: After doing your analysis you may determine that for now, the current platform can be retained in its current state - revisit it later.
Application modernisation techniques
Migration to Cloud
Migrating applications to the cloud is a cornerstone of modernisation. This technique involves moving legacy systems to cloud-based environments, which offers several benefits including improved scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. By leveraging cloud services, businesses can enhance their infrastructure and streamline operations.
APIs, Microservices, and Containers
Adopting APIs, microservices, and containers is essential for creating agile and scalable applications.
- APIs (Application Programming Interfaces): Enable different software systems to communicate and share data seamlessly, fostering integration and collaboration.
- Microservices: Break down applications into smaller, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled individually, allowing for faster updates and better resource utilisation.
- Containers: Provide a consistent environment for applications to run across different computing environments, enhancing portability and reliability.
DevOps, Security, AI, and Application Development
Modernising applications also involves embracing new methodologies and technologies in development and operations.
- DevOps: Integrates development and operations teams to improve collaboration, streamline workflows, and accelerate the release of new features and updates.
- Security: Ensuring robust security measures are in place is crucial as applications become more complex and interconnected. Modern security practices include automated security testing, continuous monitoring, and incorporating security into the development lifecycle.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): Leveraging AI technologies can enhance applications by providing advanced data analytics, automation, and personalised user experiences.
- Application Development: Modern techniques in application development focus on agility, user-centric design, and continuous improvement. This includes adopting agile methodologies, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and leveraging modern development frameworks and tools.
By incorporating these modernisation techniques and technologies, businesses can enhance their application portfolios, drive innovation, and remain competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Technology partnerships to modernise your applications, improve governance and compliance, reduce risk and improve customer and staff experience. Integral can help you develop a migration and modernisation strategy and together with our partners we can help you accelerate and automate modernisation.
AWS Spotlight
- Migrate applications from any source infrastructure that runs supported operating systems.
- Modernise your applications during migration with options such as disaster recovery and operating system or license conversion.
- Maintain normal business operations throughout the application replication process.
- Reduce costs by using one tool for a wide range of applications, with no need to invest in application-specific skills.
Together with AWS we can minimise time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS. AWS also simplifies application modernisation with built-in and custom optimisation options.
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Titles Queensland: Pioneering Land Registry modernisation
Nationally and internationally, governments and organisations are seeking to optimise their land registration systems. They acknowledge the critical function these systems play in safeguarding property owners’ records and interests for the future.
Organisations that have move away from legacy applications now can think about value added services such as the provision of data through commercialisation or making it freely available as a community service.
Titles Queensland partnered with Integral to gain an understanding of how other jurisdictions are utilising technology to maintain transparent, accurate property records and deliver contemporary services. This partnership aims to ensure they meet the evolving needs of the community, government and businesses. Integral investigated the current state of land registration systems, drawing insights from both national and international research.
Our report dives deep into how technology is shaping the landscape and highlights the critical challenges and opportunities that registry organisations around the world are facing.
We examined the experiences, challenges, innovations, technological investments, and lessons learned from various national and international organisations, to shape Titles Queensland’s own strategic development.
Titles Queensland is poised to transform the way land tenure is managed, making it fit for the digital age. Integral is proud to have played a role in this transformative journey, contributing to a vision that ensures property records are not only secure but also serve as a foundation for sustainable development and economic growth into the future.
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