Map out Your Modernization Effort with ClearBlade's Assessment Approach
A significant goal of modernization is to leverage your existing applications and resources to create flexibility, maintainability, and efficiency in order to meet the increasing pressures of business demands. Your organization must meet the changing market demands, globalization needs, and compliance requirements at a pace that ensures it stays competitive. The key to successful modernization is planning and approach.
You need a unique modernization strategy based on:
Your business requirements
Your budget
Your staffing constraints
Considerations for a Modernization Project
There are multiple approaches to attacking your modernization effort:
Use Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) for new development
Refactor using EGL for web services
Modernize from green screen to a web interface while keeping your backend programs in place
- Replace your existing UI by converting to a Rich Internet Application (RIA) front-end
- Extend your UI with mash-ups and utilize asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)
Transformation
- Perform an automated transformation with IBM's Rational Migration Extension (RME)
Impact on Infrastructure:
Typically, system i and system z development infrastructures are separate from other development. A review to gain efficiencies through process consolidation is an important step to modernization. Processes and assets are just a couple of areas to analyze. Process consolidation opportunities to explore, include:
Change Management
Release Management
Requirements Management
Testing
Existing Assets:
An audit of your existing assets will help assess complexity and will provide the support data for the estimation process for budget and resource needs.
Assessment Process
We will start by analyzing your existing environment. There are four key analysis components on which we will focus:
Architecture
Other Assets, including applications
Processes and infrastructure
Skills
Once complete, we will provide documentation that will present the following results:
Migration approach recommendation
High level timeline and estimation
Team makeup and staffing
Architectural recommendations
Risk Assessment
Every environment is different. Assessments can be tailored to review all or a subset of the analysis components. Contact us at ClearBlade to jointly draft an assessment approach.