Implementing a cloud strategy and modernization of legacy systems are two of the core objectives of most IT organizations. Purchasing a COTS product or SaaS offering can speed up modernization and come with a lot of advantages. COTS products come with a proven track record and address specific business needs that would be difficult to justify building your own. COTS product shifts the liability of creating features to the COTS product instead of your organization. Finally, COTS products promise a […]
What is Rehosting? Rehosting is an approach to migrating business applications hosted on-premises in data center environments to the cloud by moving the application “as-is,” with little to no changes to the functionality. A common rehosting scenario is the migration of applications that were initially developed for an on-premises environment to take advantage of cloud computing benefits. These benefits may include increased availability, faster networking speeds, reduced technical debt, and a pay-per-use cost structure. In our experience, rehosting is well suited […]
What does it mean to Rehost an application? Rehosting is an approach to migrating business applications hosted in on-premises data center environments to the cloud by moving the application “as-is,” with little to no changes to the business functions performed by the application. It’s a faster, less resource-intensive migration approach that gets your apps into the cloud without much code modification. It is often a good first step to cloud transformation. Organizations with applications that were initially developed for an on-premises […]
Please note: The extended support deadline for Exchange 2010 has changed since the original publication of this article. It has moved from January 14 2020 to October 13 2020. There is still good time to consider your upgrade strategy and migrate your legacy Exchange environments to the Microsoft cloud! Exchange 2010 is at the end of its journey, and what a long road it’s been! For many customers, it has been a workhorse product facilitating excellent communications with their employees. […]
Last week we laid out some basics of what we call the “Full PaaS” approach to legacy app modernization. While it might not make sense in every situation, we recently completed a modernization effort using the Full PaaS approach. Here’s some background on what went into this application modernization strategy and the steps we took… Stop Playing Legacy App “Whack-a-Mole” Our enterprise customer developed and owned a budgeting application. The application was over five years old and built on tech […]
If you’re looking to understand how to modernize legacy applications, there are quite a few paths and approaches to choose from. Today, let’s look at “Full PaaS” modernization, which re-architects legacy applications to target cloud-native “serverless” technologies wherever possible. This can solve many of the most common challenges organizations face when dealing with legacy applications: The need to provide modern capabilities, innovate faster with limited resources Your existing infrastructure is expensive and difficult to provision, maintain, scale, secure Your existing […]
AIS’ work with the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) was showcased as a Microsoft Featured Case Study. This customer success story was our most recent project with NFLPA, as they’ve sought our help to modernize multiple IT systems and applications over the years. We were proud to tackle the latest challenge: Creating a single, shared player management system, using Dynamics 365, for the NFLPA and all its sister organizations. The Challenge As the nonprofit union for NFL players, the NFLPA constantly looks […]
In this blog post, I discuss an app modernization approach that we call “modernize-by-shifting.” In essence, we take an existing application and move it to “managed” container hosting environments like Azure Kubernetes Service or Azure Service Fabric Mesh. The primary goal of this app modernization strategy is to undertake minimal possible change to the existing application codebase. This approach to modernization is markedly different from a “lift-and-shift” approach where workloads are migrated to the cloud IaaS unchanged with little to no use […]
I put together a two-part video presentation on how (and why!) to take on-premises applications and move them to the cloud (specifically the Azure PaaS platform), and how to do it quickly. The second video continues the process and covers app modernization with Service Fabric.
Two years ago, the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) came to AIS with an outdated online budgeting tool called the “Texas Reality Check” for middle and high school students. The application, designed to give students a clear sense of how much their desired future lifestyle will cost and what education and career choices will support it, was plagued by performance and accessibility issues…and its young target demographic was simply tuning it out. AIS modernized the site for teen sensibilities, streamlined the […]