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Move your applications to the cloud for global reach, standardization and acceleration.
The term “application migration” is the method or activity of relocating the organization’s application from its source to a new destination or environment. The cost benefits of migration to the cloud are obvious. The cloud also forces teams to rethink, refactor and rearchitect to deliver real business impact from cloud-based solutions.
What is less obvious is the acceleration benefits of migrating applications to the cloud. Our data shows that companies that migrate applications to the cloud on average deliver business solutions 2-3 times faster than their counterparts who still rely on legacy formats.
We understand the best practices of
cloud adoption
With data from over 5,000 companies spanning 20 industries, we understand where migrations are, and what migration priorities and strategies the most successful companies are adopting.
As you begin migrating applications to the Cloud at an increasing scale, traditional approaches and support models will not work. Our data helps clients prioritize with an eye on the competition. We also bring a deep understanding of adoption patterns, platforms, IP and process capabilities to help you manage your cloud applications at scale.
Cloud Adoption and Use by Global IT Leaders
What does application migration involve?
There is an array of choices for IT organizations in the era of the cloud as far as how they want to manage their applications. Some of these are listed below:
Rehost or Lift and Shift
- Sometimes an intermediate step
- Candidates – large, antiquated applications
- Pros – Low cost option; delivers Infra savings
- Cons – Does not provide full Cloud benefits
Re-platform
- Limited rearchitecting of back-end
- An intermediate step to refactoring
- Candidates – large custom applications
- Pros – Low cost option; delivers infrastructure and elasticity benefits
- Cons – Does not provide full cloud benefits
Refactor
- Major or complete re-architecture
- New features and functionality
- Candidates – any critical custom application
- Pros – Provides benefits of new features as a cloud native application
- Cons – Expensive
Repurchase or Upgrade
- Upgrading to a Cloud/SaaS version of an existing vendor application
- Candidates – enterprise applications of any size
- Pros – Minimal effort if same vendor
- Cons – Can be expensive if switching vendors
What choice a team makes is a function of targeted business priorities, objectives and benefits, as well as the availability of budget and resources.
Application migration at scale
While the fundamentals of migrating a specific application to the cloud remain the same, the game changes when a portfolio is being considered for cloud migration.
For migration at scale, Olympic deploys application migration centers of excellence (CoE) designed to generate speed, efficiency and cost benefits that come from scale of economy.
Olympic brings the strong program management, governance, change management and communication skills that are essential for a large-scale migration program.