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Application Modernization in the Enterprise: Architectural, Operational, and Delivery Impacts

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COPYRIGHT IDC © 2020 | PAGE 2 in a timely fashion. Legacy applications offer limited flexibility and reduce the agility of teams. Traditional applications also absorb a high proportion of information technology (IT ) spend for maintenance, giving organizations limited budgets to enhance the existing solution portfolio. Cloud technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and enterprise application architecture needs to adapt to modern functionality that gives developers a new mindset and tools to speed up the pace of delivering new features and enables operations teams to play a more strategic role in the business. Several large enterprises with a portfolio of legacy applications are taking steps to modernize and, ultimately, use application development to create new digital experiences for their customers as a competitive market advantage. Cloud-native architectures help organizations become more agile, reduce time to market for new Migrating workloads to the public cloud, if well planned, offers an opportunity for environments to be quickly replicated in production-like settings, and rapid testing of new features enables developers to accelerate innovation. The benefits of adapting applications to new delivery methods are so great that enterprises are on a continuous application improvement cycle. The pace of innovation is magnified when workloads take advantage of new cloud features such as functions as a service, containers, and microservices. The adoption of these managed services has a big impact on organizational operations — eliminating the need to patch, update, and scale application infrastructure. Monolithic applications have been built with traditional infrastructure and software architecture for decades and saddle organizations with a solution portfolio that is unable to respond to business demands for digitization IDC OPINION The usual first step of cloud adoption typically includes lift and shift of workloads from on-premises datacenters to the public cloud. However, businesses can derive more value from a cloud migration if they can take complete advantage of emerging cloud technologies.

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