MODERNIZATION TENETS & APPROACHES

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TENETS

Mphasis Modernization helps enterprises shift away from older architecture, offering businesses cloud-native microservices based capabilities

Iterative Business Capability Modernization

Changing the technology of a platform doesn’t automatically deliver business benefits. We use the Mphasis Front2Back™ (F2B) approach to deliver meaningful benefits to businesses, while shrinking application cores and modernizing the ecosystem.

Shrink, Wrap, Rethink; maybe Replace

Older systems tend to bloat over time, mixing many related capabilities. We break these into smaller, self-contained units, thereby shrinking the core systems. This purer implementation is easier to rethink and replace with next-gen applications.

Iterative Technical Debt Reduction

Old code is not inherently bad. Its technical debt is the measure of how much of a drag it represents to the business, and therefore its reduction is an indicator of success.

Ecosystem Transformation

Transforming technology doesn’t automatically guarantee faster time-to-market and improved functionality. We deliver changes that make a difference to the business and IT ecosystem, such as Platform and Product Thinking, DevSecOps and SRE, and so on.

Automation

Automate as much as possible to increase productivity, reduce risk, improve quality, and reduce time and investment. Use formats that can be consumed by humans as well as machines.

Relearning and Knowledge Engineering

Extract subject matter expertise built over time in application systems, middleware, infrastructure, business processes and business rules. Encode knowledge and decisions for tasks. Rather than relying on interactions and continuous consensus building, use shared knowledge repositories. Enable federated operational capabilities with single pane views of modernization and transformation journeys.

OUR APPROACHES

Our differentiated approaches on the modernization of legacy applications include:

Front2Back^TM Iterative Modernization

This approach, based on our Front2Back^TM methodology carefully deconstructs legacy application monoliths into reusable business aligned components, which are orchestrated through an ‘intelligence layer’, a collection of technologies, design patterns and tools that enable the decoupling of digital transformation initiatives from core systems. Capability-based harmonization ensure that strategic business plans drive the enterprise.

Differentiators:

Delivers business KPI improvements and digital modernization faster, better and cheaper as compared to other alternatives.
By focusing on delivering business KPI changes instead of just technology changes, we deliver business benefits that allow these to be self-funded projects.

Rewrite using Knowledge Engineering and Model Driven Development

This is an accelerated tool-based method that focuses on relearning of existing systems. Business rule extraction captures the as-is functionality of applications, their dependencies, data lineages, etc. This is followed with domain contextualization and domain model development to re-architect the applications to cloud native microservices that can be deployed on private, public or hybrid clouds.

Differentiators:

Provides 50% effort reduction in understanding the rules built into the application.
Provides guarantee of coverage through 100% code and rule inventory.
Pre-populates models for DevSecOps and next generation application development.

Accelerated Core to Cloud Modernization

This method utilizes high performance transaction processing architecture accompanied with bespoke configuration and development to move core business logic to cloud. Legacy core functions are broken into predictable patterns and value is realized through restructuring of the applications to reap maximum benefits of cloud native models.

Differentiators:

Reduces the project duration to 12-18 months.
70% of the functionality remains as-is; 20% of the changes are configurable and only 10% of the functionality requires code changes.
Reduces cost of high-performance compute by more than 70%.

Modernize through Integration of z/OS into Cloud (In Place Modernization)

Integration: Apification, Microservices, z/OS Cloud Broker

Modernization: DevOps, CI/CD Tools - Optimize and modernize application, adopt to new tools and utilities

Infrastructure Upgrade: Platform and software upgrades