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As the demand on your business systems and IT staff continues to evolve, you need a synchronized plan for orchestrating and managing your technology roadmap. Whether you’re planning a migration of key assets to the cloud, a modernization of your legacy mainframe platforms, or a major upgrade to on-premise systems and software, having a clearly defined strategy and an informed Digital Transformation Assessment.
Astadia uses a three-phase approach to strategy and current state assessment that has been refined during hundreds of successful engagements. Each phase is driven by clearly articulated activities and deliverables that provide you with a comprehensive view of opportunities and challenges, and concludes with a detailed gap analysis and roadmap for achieving your desired business objectives.
Phase 1 – Define Business Goals and Future Vision
During this phase, Astadia strategy consultants work with you to understand stakeholder priorities and concerns, then gain alignment on desired outcomes and success criteria. Through a series of interviews, executive meetings and discovery workshops, we help you clearly define the internal and external business pressures driving the changes. We will document restrictions and requirements that may impact execution, and ensure proper governance is in place. Our core deliverable from this phase is a comprehensive document that serves as the strategic beacon going forward.
Phase 2 – Assess Current State
Once everyone is aligned on goals, our network and cloud architects, software engineers and operational technicians will partner with your team and begin assessing the current environment. Using a variety of proprietary automated tools and methodologies, our teams conduct static and dynamic analyses on application inventories, infrastructure capabilities, cloud readiness/maturity and other related systems and processes. We also scrutinize past performance metrics for people, processes and technologies to track the evolutionary trajectory of your systems in order to provide insights into emerging challenges and opportunities.
Phase 3 – Perform Gap Analysis and Roadmap
With the future vision set, the current state identified, and all results accurately recorded, our strategists, architects and engineers work together to reveal the gaps. We begin developing the roadmaps and blueprints, reference tool stacks and architectures, solution designs and other recommendations. When complete, we deliver a comprehensive report on our findings, as well as a detailed proposal outlining priorities, project plans and schedules.
Our professionals will perform all client work in a safe and secure environment. The work will be performed at your site, and at secure Astadia facilities, as appropriate.
We’ll produce reports and analysis over the course of your Digital Transformation Assessment project, which typically lasts several weeks. At the project conclusion, you will receive a full set of reports and data, along with timelines for project activity.
Over the past 20 years, we have successfully completed more than 200 Legacy Modernization projects, many of which were the result of an Digital Transformation Assessment and an IT Roadmap. Our skills and experience with Digital Transformation Assessments, and our proven results with clients in this category, make Astadia the best partner to conduct your Assessment service.
The Assessment process helps our clients decide the sequence of moving Legacy applications to new platforms, while the Roadmap actually spells out a sequence, and a timeframe, for Legacy Migration. In addition, we offer a number of services to help you move through the entire “Legacy to Cloud” experience.
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