App Modernization Assessment

This high-value assessment helps you truly discover whether and why you should embrace modernization for your legacy monolithic applications and services hosted on-prem or on legacy infrastructure. Figure out a low RoI Quick-win strategy, establish clarity on what the modernization roadmap should be, and conduct a cost-benefit analysis to be ready for the transition to scalable and manageable modern application architecture on Azure.

Azure's vast ecosystem makes it a go-to platform for application modernization. However, its large number of services combined with evolving architecture patterns and approaches also create a complex decision matrix for organizations. Without proper assessment, you risk overprovisioning resources, underutilizing services, or implementing suboptimal architectures instead of prioritizing solutions that truly drive business value and performance gains.

Simform’s Azure Application Modernization Assessment helps you prioritize the prime candidates for modernization and determine which combination of Azure technologies and architectural patterns, such as containerization and microservices, will best fit your organization's objectives. We base our recommendations on Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework to ensure efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and security in the new cloud environment.

Assessment Plan Azure Application Modernization Assessment by Simform encompasses:

1. Application portfolio analysis

• Get an inventory of your existing applications with documented architecture, dependencies, and risks. Stakeholder interviews help us align technical recommendations with your organization's goals and constraints.

2. Application modernization planning

• We assess each application against the 5 Rs (Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, Replace) to determine the optimal modernization approach. You also get Azure-optimized reference architectures for your workloads with Azure service recommendations.

3. Cost analysis and projection

• Get a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis comparing current infrastructure costs to projected Azure spending. Using Azure Cost Management and Billing tools, we also create a detailed 12-month cloud consumption forecast for deployed services.

Deliverables

1. An initial inventory of applications and infrastructure and identified gaps

2. Prioritized list of applications/services to modernize

3. A phased roadmap outlining the recommended modernization approaches, resource requirements, and timelines.

4. Architecture design recommendations for modernized applications, along with the Azure services to use

5. Cost-benefit analysis for up to three modernization opportunities