Modernization is Essential
"smartTools analyze and draw your entire applications portfolio into a meta-model, building a solid foundation for intelligent modernization steps to be taken."
System landscapes designed decades ago and patch-worked together over years of service are seldom capable of meeting the requirements and flexibility of current and future business processes. Despite this, completely "wiping the slate clean" is often prohibitively expensive and time consuming, and where core business processes are involved, it can seriously jeopardize the growth of the company.
Managed Diversity...
The results are system-landscapes with a flexible collection of old applications, standard solutions and new developments working together. Managing this technological diversity and determining timeframes for the modernization of legacy/existing systems is a strategic challenge for IT.
Application Portfolio Management
smartShift simplifies modernization decisions with processes, tools and methods to execute projects with clear cost and time commitments.
We enable you to carry out a comprehensive analysis of your application portfolio, and to display multi-dimensional data-views of your software landscape across different platforms, programming languages and databases. With an insight into the inner workings of your software in terms of value, risks and cost of applications you will be able to answer important strategic questions with confidence, and gain a new level of control over the management of your application portfolio.
With the perspective our tools provide, you will be able to determine:
- What your application landscape actually looks like
- Which technical interdependencies exist
- Criteria to decide which applications are worth keeping, and where new areas of investment may lie
- Which solutions have become redundant
Modernization is complex. Let us help you find the best strategy.