Building a Roadmap to Modernization

Mastering Momentum in Health and Education

Our client, a research institute, set out to modernize their existing application by taking advantage of more cloud native services on AWS. Modernizing the organization’s app would help reduce costs, address storage issues and move towards a microservices architecture that would serve as a foundation for automation and future growth.

Modernizing and Optimizing Existing App

A Research Institute’s Digital Transformation

While our client had already performed a lift and shift migration, app modernization would improve overall end-user experience, increase efficiency and productivity, and decrease maintenance costs. The research organization wanted to evolve from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture, organizing the various complex tasks within their application into individual services. While this transition would take time, a comprehensive plan would ensure the modernization journey started and proceeded properly.

The research institute needed a highly experienced AWS partner to develop a roadmap for implementation and help them see this process through. Enter TEKsystems Global Services (TGS).

Creating a Game Plan for Continued App Modernization Efforts

Highlighting Short-, Mid- and Long-Term Goals in Discovery

First, our team reviewed the current architecture and application to identify existing challenges and areas of opportunity. This assessment helped us develop recommendations, including essential foundational steps such as establishing containerization and microservices, database migration and the adoption of Agile methodologies and cross-functional teams. Our goal? Set the stage for long-term goals, such as adopting continuous deployment (CD) to ensure the rapid delivery of improvements and features, as well as the eventual full migration to AWS S3 cloud storage.

In the short term, we focused on a database migration strategy that would serve as a firm foundation for automation and a microservices architecture and help address performance and scalability issues. We used CAST Highlight and Imaging tools for a comprehensive discovery of the organization’s applications and harnessed these insights to accelerate our development of an application modernization roadmap.

Putting AWS Expertise to Work

Migration and Application Modernization Strategy

Our client required the expertise of a partner with extensive knowledge of AWS best practices. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, TGS has the capability to guide customers through any and every stage of their modernization journey. Leveraging our deep expertise and proven successes with application innovation, we recommended an AWS-centric architecture that would enable the institute to realize the full benefits of microservices, along with automation practices, while also developing a strategy for an eventual full migration to AWS S3.