The 8 Steps
of Continuous
Modernization
engine of digital business
Transform your legacy applications into
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at least three times
Gartner predicts that through 2020, every $1 invested in digital business innovation will require enterprises
to spend that to continuously
modernize the legacy application portfolio.
Here s how
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As technology and business change, you need to
constantly upgrade and modernize your applications. Sometimes “rip-and-replace” programs are too
time-consuming, costly and often unnecessary. Instead, you can use the applications you already
have by taking an iterative approach to modernization, and remove friction points and stay ahead.
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Perform the assessment on a business-capability-by-business-capability basis.
Identify the business capabilities supported by the legacy application.
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of the legacy application are supporting each business capability.
Identify which specific components
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and identify any modernization drivers, such as low business fit, value or agility, or high complexity, risk or cost. Assess the components and not the
whole of the application.
Assess the support for each business capability
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Discuss them with business stakeholders to create a backlog of modernization activities.
Identify and prioritize the friction
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and select the appropriate modernization approach.
For each selected modernization activity, analyze the cause behind the problem
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or obstacles and improve business support.
Execute the modernization to remove the friction points
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to include any new or changed priorities.
Re-evaluate the backlog
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Step 4.
and go back to
Select the next activity from the backlog
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