How IBM helps customers accelerate app modernization and control costs

A large U.S.-based healthcare company recently partnered with IBM® to accelerate cloud adoption with consistent, predictable results. This collaboration increases our confidence in exploring app modernization across a variety of applications and landing zones for both hybrid cloud and platform-based modernization.

As a healthcare company, this client had an obligation to provide its customers with safe, reliable, time-sensitive, and high-quality service. Ultimately, we needed a best-in-class application modernization tool to help us fulfill this obligation.

If clients cannot properly visualize all applications and their underlying dependencies, they risk reducing reliability. Managing large internal and vendor teams to maintain multiple applications can be very difficult. To accelerate your hybrid cloud journey and control costs, it is important to prioritize specific execution and transformation steps.

How has IBM helped you improve your app modernization strategy?

IBM Consulting® worked with our clients’ cloud teams and technology experts to deploy the IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator. This helped our customers understand the business logic involved in many applications. The solutions deployed included IBM® Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), Cloud Transformation Insights (CTI), Analytics and Renovation Catalyst (ARC), Mainframe Application Modernizer (MAM), and Candidate Microservice Advisor (CMA).

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator can understand complex program interactions in the current state of applications and microservices and perform what-if analysis of possible target states. This gives you the flexibility to choose which applications to move and when to move them based on your business needs. It also helps maintain consistency and provides an end-to-end accelerated modernization process, from rapid discovery to solution delivery to low-touch delivery.

Hybrid cloud migration with predictable outcomes and lower risks

By collecting extracted business rules, the client was able to utilize a repository that provides a collaborative environment where multiple resources can discover, modify, and test business rules.

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator also provided detailed discovery of mainframe applications. These improvements are further highlighted by the solution’s ability to automatically detect dead or unreachable code and identify microservices in potential target states.

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator integrates and coordinates a wide range of migration tools across IBM assets and products, as well as open source and third-party tools. IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator provides the following capabilities:

• Cloud Transformation Planning: Create a wave plan to migrate and modernize your workloads to the cloud.
• Application and workload analytics: Collect infrastructure, app data, and target health preferences. Create a cloud modernization path optimized for time, cost, and business benefits.
• Migrate, modernize, and build capabilities: Migrate workloads to the cloud or develop new applications natively in the cloud with an automation-driven, journey-based approach with your factory team that delivers predictable outcomes.
• Application and platform design: Create technical blueprints to help guide the implementation of consistent experiences across multiple cloud platforms and services.
• Cloud Service Configuration: Automates the deployment and configuration of cloud services required for cloud platforms and application workloads.
• Day 2 Operations: Maintain consistent cloud operations in a vendor-agnostic manner, regardless of your choice of cloud provider or landing zone.
• Co-create with IBM Garage™: Seamlessly ideate, build, measure, iterate and scale solutions with an end-to-end framework for design thinking, agile and DevOps practices. Accelerate time to value and adopt groundbreaking technologies through partnerships between your team and a broad range of IBM technology, business and design experts.

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator helped the healthcare company deploy IBM hybrid cloud capabilities across customer locations in a cost-effective manner. This has enabled us to deliver higher quality health outcomes to our customers. Now the company is expanding into additional use cases as a result of collaboration and innovation with the IBM consulting team.

We believe this engagement reflects IBM’s values ​​of significant customer commitment and innovation. It is our honor and privilege to provide value to our customers. IBM’s mission is to leverage the power of data and hybrid cloud to deliver real-time, predictive business insights that help our clients make intelligent business decisions.

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