Explore how industry leaders leverage software intelligence to gain visibility into their portfolios and expedite cloud migration and modernization efforts.
In today’s business landscape, every company must embrace technology to thrive. Successful organizations utilize modern technology to enhance productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and stand out from their competitors. However, as time progresses, custom application portfolios become increasingly complex. Coupled with the challenges of attrition and rapid changes in programming languages, frameworks, and open-source software, this complexity can impede the speed and success of cloud migration and overall modernization endeavors. Discover how industry digital leaders harness the power of software intelligence to gain visibility into their portfolios, overcome complexities, and accelerate cloud migration and modernization.
The Challenge of Cloud Migration Analysis Paralysis
Digital transformation has become a crucial topic in boardrooms across industries. Board members recognize that migrating to the cloud and modernizing legacy, monolithic applications are vital for survival, enabling organizations to respond to changing business needs quickly and with greater agility. Although such projects may seem straightforward on the surface, they are incredibly intricate underneath. Project complexity rapidly escalates, ranging from obsolete, undocumented code to extensive technical debt and intricate networks of dependencies. As these unexpected obstacles accumulate, it becomes challenging to determine the starting point, leading to analysis paralysis.
Leveraging software intelligence facilitates rapid, fact-based analysis of custom application portfolios, supporting informed and vendor-agnostic cloud migration strategies. It enables the prioritization and segmentation of applications into categories such as rehosting, refactoring, rearchitecting, rebuilding, or retiring. Furthermore, it helps organizations avoid U-turns in the migration journey by identifying code patterns that could potentially hinder migration.
The New Frontier: Application Modernization
Despite the significant growth of public cloud adoption, only a fraction of enterprise workloads have migrated to the cloud. There is still immense value to be unlocked by modernizing custom, business-critical legacy applications. However, challenges abound, including a lack of documentation, a wide array of programming languages and frameworks, scarcity of skilled individuals who understand legacy technologies, and sheer complexity.
Just as a surgeon would not undertake a complex procedure without an MRI, businesses should not embark on an application modernization journey without gaining visibility into their legacy applications. Software intelligence provides the necessary visibility for the cloud migration and modernization journey, improving time to value and reducing overall risks. Software intelligence analyzes the inner workings of your application portfolio, including data and source-code components and dependencies, to generate interactive architecture maps and insights into cloud readiness and software integrity.
Stilogic collaborates with CAST, a leader in software intelligence, to offer fact-based analysis of custom source code within your application portfolio. This analysis aids in rationalizing your portfolio for cloud migration, identifying blockers, highlighting opportunities for containerization and PaaS, and even uncovering potential risks associated with open-source intellectual property. This information is crucial in defining the overall migration strategy and effort, saving organizations time, money, and frustration. CAST Imaging technology reverse-engineers dependencies and automatically generates interactive maps of the software’s architecture and structural integrity, expediting and de-risking the modernization journey.
Accelerating Cloud Migration and Modernization for a Transportation Leader
A global transportation leader with a vast number of custom applications aimed to expedite their cloud migration and modernize core systems. Their objectives included cost reduction, enhanced resilience, improved client experience, and faster delivery of new products and services.
Using CAST software intelligence, within a mere two weeks, complete visibility into the client’s application portfolio was achieved, including health assessments, identification of blockers for cloud PaaS, and analysis of open-source components for each application. Additionally, modernization plans were developed for the near- and mid-term, identifying quick wins and opportunities for decommissioning or replacing obsolete frameworks.
Fast-Track Your Digital Transformation with Software Intelligence
Cloud migration and application modernization are complex endeavors that require a thorough and fact-based understanding of your entire environment. By harnessing the power of CAST software intelligence in conjunction with Stilogic’s migration and optimization expertise, you can gain a deeper understanding of complexities, dependencies, and priorities, enabling the development of a more holistic strategy.
Contact Stilogic today to initiate an assessment of your custom application portfolio and take the first step toward expediting your digital transformation.