Applications Modernization Services Technical Summary

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Modernizing Applications and Infrastructure

Your company's mandate: maintain its competitive edge while reducing long-term costs.

Your task: deploy more robust, agile information technology (IT) systems that respond quickly to changes in marketplace dynamics and customer needs.

The challenge: a complex legacy IT environment is difficult to operate and expensive to maintain.

The solution: modernize your applications and infrastructure by capitalizing on the strengths of your legacy systems while updating them to be more cost-effective.

With our deep legacy systems and applications experience, integrated processes and tools, and industry best-practice methodologies, HP can help you efficiently migrate to high-performance platforms. We deliver a total lifecycle solution process that includes:

• Applications assessments
• Applications transformation
• Management services

Applications Assessments

A suite of Applications Assessments focusing on business, financial, functional and technical aspects of applications and associated data assets. Each application is mapped to your tactical and strategic business objectives, then we formulate the road map for modernization. With a number of highly qualified senior strategic technology consultants worldwide along with patented, proven methodology and processes, we have the competency to assess your applications and devise the most appropriate modernization strategy.

Our Applications Assessments include:

• Modernization opportunity workshops
• Portfolio assessment
• Modernization assessment
• Best shore assessment

An End-To-End Approach

Our end-to-end service approach to revitalization, delivered through Applications Modernization Services, offers a fast track to application and infrastructure modernization that ensures your operations continue without disruption. We'll help transform your legacy applications from aging environments to modern application platforms using service-oriented architectures that take advantage of today's open standards.

Our applications modernization solution transforms your systems by:

• Defining the path by conducting a portfolio assessment to determine the strategic value of your applications and then creating a road map and business case to recommend modernization strategies
• Managing the journey by executing modernization strategies as applications projects in a series of phases that create cost savings, which are in turn used to fund subsequent phases
• Mitigating the risk by managing the deployment of modernized applications to operations so business continuity is ensured
• Implementing a modernized IT platform that is more flexible and scalable, allowing you to respond quickly to changes in the marketplace

HP Modernization Approach

Assess: Define the path

• Assess your IT portfolio
• Determine application strategic value
• Recommend application options
• Apply modernization strategies
• Develop the modernization road map
• Build the business case
• Present the findings

Modernize: Manage the journey

• Establish the modernization program
• Define the applications architecture
• Model the business architecture
• Detail the modernization project plans
• Transform business processes
• Modernize applications

Manage: Mitigate the risk

• Prepare the transition plan
• Mitigate operational risk
• Optimize support resources
• Host the modernized applications
• Manage the environment
• Transition to operations

Using this approach ensures your business processes are analyzed, the right tools are applied to align your technology with your company's business goals and the right strategies are executed to transform your applications environment. Based on your requirements, you'll get a modernization solution that is the right balance of cost, speed and quality.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Because every IT environment is unique, HP uses multiple modernization strategies to address risk levels, benefit potentials and the business priorities of each application. Working with you, we create a road map that addresses all critical applications and infrastructure requirements. Project leaders carefully plan the modernization as a series of concurrently running projects then execute your road map.

Each project provides the processes, tools and subject matter expertise to execute one more of the modernization strategies. As each project completes, we manage the risk to operations by ensuring the smooth transition of modernized applications into production.

The HP Modernization Solution

Our Applications Modernization Services features two components:

• Modernization Assets: Frameworks, architectures, processes and resources used in each phase to reduce the risks to business continuity while accelerating the transformation and modernization of your infrastructure and applications
• Modernization Strategies: Specific processes to meet the modernization needs of specific applications

Modernization Assets

To accelerate the modernization process, we leverage a series of templates, blueprints and best-practice-type assets proven in the field. Using these assets increases efficiency while reducing cost and operational risk to your business continuity. These assets include:

• Modernization framework: The end-to-end services framework to assess, modernize and manage your applications portfolio
• Agile applications architecture: A service-oriented architecture (SOA) for delivering agility across your enterprise
• HP industry frameworks: Industry business models that transform business processes and support applications
• Technology reference architecture: Multiple technology reference stacks based on the application development environment framework for .NET and the reusable component framework for J2EE

The Modernization Framework Is the Cornerstone of Your Revitalization Program

To efficiently coordinate resources and assets to assess, modernize and manage your applications environment, our Applications Modernization Framework is essential. The result of our performing modernization projects for more than 20 years, this framework provides a phased approach to modernization focused on repeatable delivery of the processes, tools, resources and assets that reduce the risks associated with modernization.

These phases are:

• Assess: Analyzes your applications environment to develop an operationally safe modernization road map
• Modernize: Executes the road map with a multiyear modernization program that revitalizes IT assets to create a more service-oriented architecture
• Manage: Hosts and manages applications using cost-effective managed services scaled to meet application demands and achieve the lowest cost of ownership possible

Modernization Strategies

Our modernization strategies include:

• Re-learn: A discovery process that captures the intellectual property investment that has been made in legacy applications over many years and enables that investment to be preserved and carried forward through modernization.
• Re-factor: Code optimization to improve run time efficiency of an application.
• Re-host: Migration of legacy applications to lower-cost modern platforms without significantly changing the business features and functions.
• Re-interface: Establishes the Web-based service-oriented interfaces to existing or rehosted applications.
• Re-architect: Forward engineering applications to Java J2EE or Windows .NET Agile Application Architecture to enable true enterprise agility.
• Replace: A framework to replace existing legacy applications with standard Enterprise Applications and Industry Standard Applications
• Retire: Decommission legacy applications from the applications portfolio.

HP Is the Right Partner to Help You Achieve Your Modernization Goals

To achieve your IT modernization goals, you need the right partner. HP is unique in that we can address both your IT and applications modernization. By taking advantage of our knowledge of legacy systems, emerging technologies and low-cost platforms, we can help you effectively migrate your applications without disruption. And HP supports your application modernization with the right resources, architecture, tools and delivery based on your requirements so you get the right balance of cost, speed and quality.

As a leading IT company, our capability extends beyond application modernization; we have the resources, processes and experience to provide ongoing support of your modernized environment, from hosting to management, so you achieve a lower cost of total ownership.

Dependability is important to you. That's one of the reasons choosing HP makes sense. You can count on us to deliver the applications modernization services you contract us for. And, as part of our agreement, we offer regular reviews and measurement of our performance to ensure we perform to your expectations.

Our Partners

By allying ourselves with market leading partners, we are able to leverage their tools and innovations to produce best-of-class practices and procedures in modernization. With our partner program, you can capitalize on the advantages offered by multivendor solutions and a single point of accountability. The list includes:

• Microsoft
• Oracle
• Micro Focus
• Informatica
• Relativity

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