HCLTech's Application Assessment Services for Modernization/Migration

The Azure Cloud Migration and Modernization Consulting Service, powered by the HCLTech Prizm platform and enabled by its proprietary EXACT framework of execution, delivers a comprehensive suite of services designed to guide organizations through the entire cloud transformation journey on Azure. This offer provides end-to-end support from initial discovery to solution planning and execution, ensuring a smooth and effective migration to Azure.

HCLTech Prizm facilitates continuous discovery and data correlation from diverse sources, considers customer's enterprise strategies and architectural guardrails, maps portfolio to industry value chains and drives purpose driven assessments such as Azure cloud migration assessments for continuous modernization of applications on Azure, from on premise or another hyperscaler to Azure, enable lifecycle decom assessments post modernization and migration.

HCLTech Prizm also offers tailored recommendations to facilitate the adoption of AI and Generative AI technologies within the enterprise by analyzing existing business lines, infrastructure, data strategies, identifying the best practices and technologies to implement.

Key Components of the Offer:

• Discovery & Correlation:

o Landscape Mapping: The service begins with mapping your current IT landscape, identifying and correlating existing components, and understanding interdependencies.

o EA/BA Repository Setup: Establishes an Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Business Architecture (BA) aligned portfolio repository, tailored for Azure migration.

• Assessment:

o Accurate Evaluations: Performs a detailed assessment to determine application lifecycle status, migration readiness, potential for decommissioning, and opportunities for portfolio rationalization.

o Modernization Suitability: Identifies applications suitable for modernization and assesses their alignment with cloud goals.

o Decommissioning: Identifies potential decommissioning candidates and provides detailed solution planning around the same including impact analysis, dependency management etc

o Application Portfolio Optimization: Helps with assessing potential cost out opportunities, streamlining of the landscape,

• Solution Planning & Execution:

o Tailored Solutions: Develops and curates modernization and migration solutions customized to meet your organization's specific needs.

o Hyperscaler-Specific Business Cases: Generates cloud business cases and right-sizing recommendations using data-driven insights.

• Platform Capabilities:

o Data-Driven Approach: HCLTech Prizm employs a data-driven methodology to map the “as-is” state, connecting applications to the business capabilities they support, and designing the desired “to-be” future state on Azure.

o Multi-Mode Data Ingestion: Supports various methods for data ingestion, including inbuilt adapters for CMDBs, auto-discovery tools, and online survey-forms for iterative onboarding.

• Assessment and Planning Features:

o Portfolio Assessment: Evaluates cloud migration, application modernization, application portfolio optimization and decommissioning objectives through comprehensive, objective-led assessments.

o Journey Dashboard: Provides stakeholders with a detailed view of data maturity, current business processes, application mappings, and other key assets.

• Modernization and Migration:

o SAAS Alternatives: Recommends best-fit SaaS alternatives based on current functionality and industry standards.

o Integration with Tools: Allows for continuous Ingestion of data from multiple data sources prevalent in organization landscape, including Azure Migrate, third-party purpose-built discovery tools, APIs, CMDB's etc. It handles correlation of disparate data from multiple sources to accurately assess applications and infrastructure. This data is used to determine the best treatments for modernization and migration. It also brings in integration with third party code level assessment tools for example like CAST as part of its analysis and recommendation process

o Azure Services: Utilizes various Azure-based services for the recommended target architecture, including Azure VMs, Azure App Service, and Azure Kubernetes Service, among others.

This consulting service ensures that you receive a structured, data-driven approach to cloud migration and modernization, aligning your IT infrastructure with Azure’s capabilities to achieve optimal performance and cost-efficiency.