Application Modernization & Optimization: Services Overview

CIOs and IT departments have never been under greater pressure to do more with less. With 70 percent of the typical organization’s global transactions running on legacy applications, the spotlight has shifted to how well the application portfolio can drive business results and support innovation while keeping costs under control.

Our Accenture Application Modernization and Optimization (AMO) Services help organizations strip out unnecessary operating costs while reducing capital spend and freeing IT staff to create value for the business. Our specialists can assist in answering the big questions about whether to renew, replace, consolidate, retire, enhance—or rebuild—applications in the portfolio.

The outcome:

• More value from existing applications with reduced costs,
• More manageable application portfolios,
• Limited business disruption and decreased risk.

 

Our Application Modernization and Optimization offering helps reduce both IT costs and the risk of an aging workforce by:

• Extending the useful life of legacy applications at a significantly reduced cost compared to replacement.

• Rapidly turning-around non-performing systems.

• Migrating custom solutions written in vintage languages or hosted on retiring platforms to more modern, sustainable solutions.

We have a seasoned team of strategy, technology and implementation professionals who focus exclusively on extending the useful life of applications using our suite of modernization tools that accelerate and automate the portfolio optimization process. Our dedicated offshore delivery centers enable cost-efficient implementation via highly skilled IT professionals with the ability to team effectively within the client’s IT organization.

Application Portfolio Optimization—Creates a strategy and road map to improve your application portfolio and reduce functionality overlaps, technical limitations and maintenance costs. Our experienced specialists use diagnostics and proven processes to probe for problem areas and quickly determine whether the applications are functionally adequate and technically healthy enough to support your organization’s business strategy.

Performance Engineering—Allows IT leaders to better manage the overall performance of their applications so they can meet or beat users’ expectations and reduce unnecessary costs due to performance issues. Our experienced team works to confirm that high performance is built into applications and alleviates performance problems in existing applications.

Application Modernization—Helps companies get the most value from their existing applications over the short, middle and long terms—as well as helping to reduce certain costs and risks. Our Application Modernization team can help modernize and streamline organization’s application landscape and technology while retaining much of the investment made in applications.