Legacy applications can expose your organisation to significant risks:

Resilience and Security: Outdated systems are more vulnerable to attacks and weak in data governance.

Innovation Stagnation: Old technology is hard to maintain, slows down innovation, and locks data in proprietary systems.

High Costs: Upgrading old systems is expensive and often doesn’t deliver the value users expect.
Running outdated hardware also incurs increasing costs as systems age.

Why Modernise?

Maintaining and upgrading legacy applications is challenging and costly. Our AWS Application Modernisation service offers a comprehensive approach to evaluate all your applications and determine the best path forward, balancing business risks and rewards.

Through architecture, development and operations experience, Integral analyse and review your current applications and work out the right path forward that will deliver the most benefit to your organisation.

Our approach

Our experienced team will take an Application Portfolio Management view of your organisations landscape. We will look at your applications through a lens of business value, and technical complexity, then assess each application to determine the investment your company should be making in each application. 

During the technical assessment of each application, we will look at the Technical Health, and Technical Fitness of the application, while also considering the role of the application in your companies value chain.

We look at the long term role of the application in delivering value, and provide guidance on where you should retire or replace an application, or look at migrating the application to AWS. Migration isn’t a simple decision and there are many choices in how you approach this. We will look at whether it’s appropriate to rehost on cloud, rearchitect or refactor to take advantage of cloud services, or rebuild to modernise your application for the long term. In some cases we will recommend a multistage approach to reduce your immediate risk, and then take advantage of additional cloud value in removing and modernising your application so that it is easier to maintain, can scale with your business, and deliver quicker changes that allow you to innovate.

Our review process will be done through a series of structured workshops.

These workshops will look at:

• Your current application landscape, what applications do you have, who owns them in your organisation, how do they fit into your business.
• Your current hosting, network, infrastructure, storage, including databases. 
• How do you integrate your applications, how dependent on each other are they. 
• Look at the technology health of each application, how easy is to add new features, how supportable are they, how do you deploy them, do you have disaster recovery plans. 
• How secure are your applications, are there concerns about the resilience and security of the applications, and the hosting of these. 
• Assess the role of applications in your value chain, how important are they to the operation of your business, how much use to they get, who uses them, how does your business operate if they stop working. 
• What future plans do you have, what is your IT strategy, where do you want to host your applications, does your strategy align with your business goals.
  
  

We then use this information to assess your applications and do a review against the AWS 7 Rs framework, giving you an idea of how complex it is to take action, and help prioritise these actions. We will develop a roadmap with you that implements the recommendations, fits within your budget, and addresses critical issues quickly.