Beyondsoft Cloud Unlock & Application Modernization

Beyondsoft offers a transformation program designed to empower organizations to modernize legacy applications, eliminate cloud vendor lock-in, and migrate to open and cloud-native standards. Through a consultative approach, strategic solution re-architecture, and planned migration, this program helps teams innovate, optimize operational costs, and achieve measurable results fully aligned with the organization’s specific needs.

What is Cloud Unlock & Application Modernization?

Cloud Unlock & Application Modernization is a specialized offering designed to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation by modernizing critical applications and reducing reliance on proprietary cloud services. The program focuses on equipping teams with industry best practices, expert guidance, and ongoing support for application modernization and migration, fully tailored to the organization’s unique requirements.

Our services cover the full lifecycle of modernization, from ideation to production deployment, using technologies such as Kubernetes and open-source databases in PaaS format. The approach integrates in-depth analysis of the current architecture, redesigning for open standards, refactoring critical components, and securely migrating data and applications to the new environment.

What services are included?

After an initial alignment to understand your organization’s needs and priorities, the following services and solutions will be delivered to support your transformation:

Application Assessment and Diagnosis

The first step includes a thorough analysis of the current application architecture to identify coupling points with proprietary services and modernization opportunities. During this phase, we conduct a detailed mapping of dependencies, data flows, and integrations between application modules, allowing for a personalized modernization and migration strategy tailored to your business needs. This diagnosis is essential to understand the underlying business logic and identify migration risks.

Application Re-architecture and Refactoring

Based on the assessment, we redesign the solution for open and cloud-native standards, such as Kubernetes, DAPR, among others. This may include replacing, for example, Lambda with Kubernetes, proprietary messaging services (like AWS SQS/SNS) with agnostic solutions such as Azure Service Bus or RabbitMQ, ensuring application portability across different cloud providers.

During this phase, we also convert and optimize application modules for more efficient and higher-performance languages, such as Go, when appropriate. This optimization is particularly important for applications that process large volumes of data or messages, where even small performance gains can lead to significant resource savings and operational cost reductions.

Additionally, we incorporate observability and monitoring layers to ensure the health, performance, and reliability of the application in production. Many legacy applications lack adequate monitoring mechanisms, making problem detection and continuous optimization challenging.

Data and Application Migration

Data and application migration is executed in a planned and secure manner, minimizing operational impact. For applications processing millions of transactions weekly, any delay or operational impact is critical, so the migration strategy is carefully planned and validated.

At this stage, we migrate large volumes of data from relational and object databases to modern storage solutions on Azure, such as Azure MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Lake, and MongoDB. Application migration to the new cloud environment is performed with business continuity assurance, using strategies like blue-green deployment or canary releases when appropriate.

We conduct rigorous testing at every migration stage to ensure data integrity, application functionality, and compliance with business and regulatory requirements.

Results Demonstration and Metrics

At the end of the program, we present comprehensive metrics and reports on application performance and business impact, including reductions in operational costs, improvements in performance and scalability, and increases in solution reliability and observability. We also share best practices and lessons learned to inspire adoption across other areas of the organization.

How does the program work?

The program follows a structured methodology with well-defined phases, ensuring value delivery at each stage:

  1. Initial Alignment: We understand your organization’s needs, define priority areas for modernization and migration, and establish the program’s objectives and success metrics.
  2. Assessment and Planning: We conduct a detailed assessment of the application and current environment, analyzing architecture, dependencies, risks, and optimization opportunities. Based on this assessment, we define a detailed modernization and migration plan, including timeline, required resources, and cost estimates. Proprietary tools are used to identify correlations and dependencies among workloads.
  3. Modernization and Migration Execution: We execute the re-architecture, refactoring, and migration plan for applications and data, following software engineering and cloud operations best practices. During this phase, we maintain constant communication with your organization’s teams, ensuring alignment and knowledge transfer.
  4. Validation and Go-live: We perform end-to-end testing and validate the solution in the new environment before going into production. This includes performance, security, compliance, and functionality tests. After validation, we execute the application’s go-live, closely monitoring performance and stability in the initial days of production.
  5. Results Demonstration: We present the metrics, results, and success stories achieved through application modernization, demonstrating the delivered value and opportunities for future improvements.

What benefits does this offering provide?

The Cloud Unlock & Application Modernization program delivers a range of tangible and measurable benefits for your organization:

  • Cost Reduction: Optimizing resource consumption, eliminating proprietary service license fees, and improving operational efficiency lead to significant savings. Modernized applications, especially those processing large volumes of data, can reduce operational costs by up to 40-50% through performance optimization and waste elimination.
  • Vendor Independence: The freedom to move your applications across different cloud providers, avoiding vendor lock-in, gives your organization greater strategic flexibility and the ability to negotiate better terms with cloud providers.
  • Performance and Efficiency Improvement: Modernized applications are faster and more efficient, with better resource usage and lower latency. For critical applications processing millions of transactions weekly, this performance improvement is vital for business competitiveness.
  • Scalability and Resilience: Solutions redesigned for cloud-native standards, such as Kubernetes, are ready to scale with your business demand, offering resilience and availability through modern cloud infrastructure.
  • Enhanced Observability: Complete visibility into the health, performance, and behavior of your applications in production enables proactive problem detection and continuous optimization.
  • Knowledge and Empowerment: Your teams gain in-depth knowledge of best practices in modernization, migration, and cloud application operation, preparing them for future transformation initiatives.

Additional Details

The program is flexible and tailored to each organization’s needs, with all terms, conditions, scope, and pricing customized for each client and subject to acceptance before initiation. Beyondsoft partners closely with your organization to ensure successful modernization, aligning with your business objectives and existing operational constraints.

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