Our Technology Rationalization (TechRaz) services help you determine the ideal mix of applications from the myriad applications that currently populate your IT landscape. We analyze the applications to identify those that bring genuine value to the business strategy.

The Technology Rationalization (TechRaz) Analysis is typically based on a combination of qualitative analysis and statistical modeling to significantly reduce the subjectivity of enterprise level recommendations. At the end of the analysis, we provide a comprehensive recommendation of a target roadmap, which not only provides a high return on investment but is also aligned with the overall business objectives.

Approach

The following figure represents our approach to Technology
Rationalization (TechRaz):

The following section discusses the Porting/Re-engineering approach as part of our Technology Rationalization.

Porting/Re-Engineering

Many of our clients are faced with the challenge of aging and costly legacy systems they need to transition to modern technologies that provide greater business flexibility and lower the ratio of IT spend between maintenance and new development. In the scenario of multiple applications with overlapping functionality, there exists opportunities for consolidation of application by migration and porting. WebLinkOnline Group undertakes a phased approach for recommending a consolidation plan.

Phase I – Business Context Analysis

We conduct questionnaire-driven interviews and focus group sessions with the business users and IT stakeholders to determine the prioritization of applications for porting or migration. Subsequently, we collect information on the performance, scalability, availability and maintainability of these applications to analyze the feasibility of portability.

Phase II – Analysis of Change Drivers

We analyze the strategic business initiatives that impact the architecture and the associated set of tactical issues that influence application functionality. We also analyze the vendor lock-in implications, the cost optimization possible through migration/porting and the market forces that could influence future architecture planning.

Phase III – Architecture Modeling

We extract the static and dynamic elements of the exiting architecture and group the elements into different components based on strategic business paradigms. Subsequently, we identify migration opportunities within a grouping by determining a portability score using the following parameters:

• Ease of Porting/Migration Index
• Dependency Index

Phase IV – Determining “To-Be” Models

Based on the modeling exercise, we determine the ideal “To-Be” model for your environment. We provide a new framework for the business services supported and the infrastructure services needed for operations.

Benefits

The Technology Rationalization Analysis provides you with a strong architectural framework for consolidation and migration of existing applications. This helps you to understand the redundancy of applications, the ease of porting, vision of long-term architecture and planning of the migration process. The analysis also provides a recommendation and roadmap for each of your applications that will help you create tactical plans.

Critical Alignment

It’s no secret that information technology is revolutionizing business, but the rate of change and the breadth of its impact are catching many companies off guard. Rushing to keep pace, they often invest huge sums in IT. The race, however, belongs not only to the swift but also to the selective. Creating the proper alignment between a company’s business strategy and IT strategy is critical.