Microsoft Azure Application Modernisation

Accelerate your time to market and offer new experiences by updating your applications and data. Gain more flexibility and scalability with security and high availability integrated.

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Microsoft Azure Application Modernisation refers to the process of transforming legacy applications to leverage modern technologies and cloud capabilities offered by Microsoft Azure and low-code technology. This involves updating application architecture, infrastructure, and features to improve performance, scalability, security, and manageability.

By modernising applications, businesses can unlock new levels of efficiency, innovation, and agility, ensuring their software remains competitive and meets contemporary user expectations.

Modern applications can better meet customer demands, offering enhanced features and performance.

Reducing technical debt and streamlining maintenance can lead to significant cost savings.

Modernised apps can easily scale to accommodate growth and varying workloads.

Updating applications to use the latest security standards helps protect sensitive data and comply with regulations.

Leveraging cloud-native services enables faster development cycles and integration with cutting-edge technologies.

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Benefits of Microsoft Azure Application Modernisation

Modernising applications with Microsoft Azure offers a multitude of benefits that help organisations stay agile, secure, and cost-effective:

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Enhanced performance:

improved application responsiveness and user experience through optimised architecture and cloud services

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Cost savings:

reduced infrastructure and operational costs by utilizing Azure’s pay-as-you-go pricing model

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Improved security:

advanced security features and compliance with industry standards help safeguard applications and data

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Scalability and flexibility:

ability to scale resources up or down based on demand, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency

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Faster time to market:

accelerated development and deployment processes enable quicker delivery of new features and updates

Phoenix have this really wonderful relationship and a successful track record with other NHS trusts and blue-chip companies in delivering what we wanted to do.”

Saeed Umar, Chief Technology Officer – Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

Methods and approaches for modernising applications

The app modernisation process should follow steps and strategies that align with a framework of organisational objectives. For instance, the Azure Well-Architected Framework has five architectural pillars that aim at achieving organisational goals—these can also apply to app modernisation:

  • Reliability: how a system can handle failures and work again
  • Security: keeping applications and data safe from attacks
  • Cost optimisation: reducing costs while delivering more value
  • Operational excellence: operations processes that make a system run well in production
  • Performance efficiency: how a system can change with different loads

Modernise on your terms

Microsoft Azure Application Modernisation applies to a wide range of scenarios across various industries, enabling organisations to address specific business needs and challenges effectively:

Legacy system transformation:

updating outdated systems to modern architectures like microservices and serverless computing

Cloud migration:

moving on-premises applications to Azure for better scalability and reduced infrastructure management

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Business continuity and disaster recovery:

ensuring high availability and robust disaster recovery solutions through cloud capabilities

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Enhanced customer experience:

delivering improved application performance and new features to enhance user satisfaction

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IoT and big data integration:

modernising applications to integrate with IoT devices and big data analytics for real-time insights

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AI and machine learning:

incorporating AI and machine learning capabilities to provide predictive analytics and automation

Surveyor Modernise

Surveyor Modernise provides an assessment of your current application estate. It offers organisations with a strategic multi-stage roadmap for the modernisation of its estate over multiple years.

This road-map leverage’s Azure native services and aligns each stage with your business objectives, in addition to calculating a total cost of ownership. This approach ensures a tailored transformation that maximises efficiency and innovation.

The result is not just a migration, but a holistic application modernisation that unlocks the full potential of Azure’s native services.

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Microsoft Azure Application Modernisation FAQs

Azure App Modernisation is the process of updating and transforming existing applications to leverage the full capabilities of Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform. This involves refactoring, rearchitecting, or rebuilding applications to take advantage of modern cloud-native services, technologies, and practices.

Modernising applications involves updating legacy systems to leverage new technologies, architectures, and practices. This process is critical for businesses to stay competitive, improve efficiency, and meet evolving customer demands. App modernisation addresses technical debt, enhances performance, and ensures that applications can scale and adapt to future requirements.

Application modernisation has three main steps – plan, implement, and operate:

  • Planning means setting a modernisation strategy
  • Implementation requires skill-building and app modernisation
  • Operations involves continuous governance, management, and optimisation

Deliver enhanced application and data experiences even faster

Whether it’s transforming legacy systems, integrating with new technologies, or improving operational efficiency, Microsoft application modernisation offers the tools and frameworks needed to succeed in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. Talk to our Azure Application Modernisation Specialists today.

You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.