How IBM helps clients accelerate app modernization and control costs

A major healthcare company in the US recently partnered with IBM® to speed up their cloud adoption process and achieve consistent and predictable results. This collaboration boosted their confidence in navigating application modernization for various applications and landing zones in both hybrid cloud and platform-native modernization.

Being a healthcare company, it was essential for this client to provide secure, reliable, timely, and high-quality services to its customers. They required top-notch application modernization tools to fulfill this obligation.

Without a proper visualization of all applications and their dependencies, there is a risk of reduced reliability. Managing large internal and vendor teams to maintain multiple applications can be challenging. To expedite the hybrid cloud journey and manage costs effectively, it is crucial to prioritize specific execution and transformation steps.

How IBM Enhanced the App Modernization Strategy

IBM Consulting® collaborated with the client’s cloud team and technical experts to deploy IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator, which helped them understand the business logic behind their numerous applications. The solutions included IBM® Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI), Cloud Transformation Insights (CTI), Analysis and Renovation Catalyst (ARC), Mainframe Application Modernizer (MAM), and Candidate Microservice Advisor (CMA).

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator comprehends complex program interactions in the current state of applications and microservices, conducting a what-if analysis of potential target states. It offers flexibility in selecting which applications to move and when based on business imperatives. It ensures consistency and streamlines the modernization process from rapid discovery to solutioning and low-touch delivery.

Hybrid Cloud Migration with Predictable Outcomes and Lower Risk

The client leveraged a collaborative repository where multiple resources could search, modify, and test business rules by ingesting extracted business rules.

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator also facilitated a detailed discovery of mainframe applications, automated identification of dead or unreachable code, and recognition of microservices in potential target states.

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator integrates and orchestrates a variety of migration tools from IBM’s assets, products, open source, and third-party sources. It offers capabilities such as:

• Cloud transformation planning
• Application and workload analysis
• Migrate, modernize, and build capabilities
• Application and platform design
• Cloud services configuration
• Day 2 operations
• Co-creation with IBM Garage™

IBM Consulting Cloud Accelerator empowered the healthcare company by deploying IBM hybrid-cloud capabilities across their locations in a cost-effective manner, leading to improved health outcomes for their customers. They are now expanding to additional use cases due to their collaboration and innovation with the IBM Consulting team.

This engagement exemplifies IBM’s commitment to client dedication and meaningful innovation. IBM’s mission is to utilize data and hybrid cloud power to provide clients with real-time, predictive business insights for intelligent decision-making.

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