Applications Modernization Services: Business Case
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Migrating To a Modernized IT Environment
A dynamic marketplace with customers demanding more means your information technology (IT) applications and infrastructure must be up to the challenge. To remain competitive, you need to build for the future, be quicker to respond and ensure your business processes and information technology are agile.
But building for the future doesn't mean building from scratch. Your legacy systems are key to your IT infrastructure, so it's important to preserve their business knowledge and functions to leverage your current investments wisely. How? By revitalizing your assets and migrating to a new environment.
Revitalizing begins with modernizing, and that means gaining a more agile IT environment. When you modernize your applications, you align your technology and business processes so you have the flexibility to adapt to market changes quickly, maintain your competitive advantage and achieve a lower cost of application asset ownership.
Modernization = Survival
Plan Your Applications Total Lifecycle
EDS transforms your legacy applications from aging environments to modern application platforms.
You increase responsiveness by eliminating the complexity inherent in legacy systems so your applications can more effectively and efficiently adapt as your business needs change.
You improve productivity by reducing the risk existing in complex, legacy systems. By changing to a more streamlined system, you increase productivity and reduce maintenance costs. The savings can be used to enhance your systems and improve operations.
You achieve faster speed to market because your revitalized IT infrastructure and modernized applications are more responsive to changing customer demands.
You lower the cost of ownership by reducing the overall expense of maintaining older systems while increasing the business value of your applications portfolio.
Ready to modernize? EDS can help. We'll provide the road map and capabilities for applications modernization to reduce your IT costs and complexity, while elevating your business performance – without disrupting your business. And we will do it on time and on budget. Leveraging your investment in existing applications, we'll integrate them seamlessly with new business functionality and external systems so you can conduct future operations more effectively and have the scalability necessary for future growth.
The Right Tools and the Right Technologies
Our experienced engineers will analyze your business processes, apply the right tools to align technology with your business goals and implement the right strategies to transform your applications environment. Our personalized approach ensures the strategies and benefits proposed are specific to your organization. And our program offers the flexibility to execute individual projects with their own ROI.
By leveraging our industry and domain expertise, applications knowledge and strategic-planning capabilities, we can quickly and efficiently move your older applications to modern platforms that offer more functionality, flexibility and better economy. The result is an architecture better suited to your business, operations and budget that supports future business growth.
Modernize Your Systems To Achieve Your Business Goals
With EDS Applications Modernization Services you benefit from:
- Innovative delivery solutions
- Modernization without disruption
- Optimal balance between cost and value
- Rapid response to changing market conditions
- The right balance of cost, speed and quality
Bottom line: modernized systems boost productivity up to 25 percent, reduce application operating costs by 30 to 60 percent and increase IT allocation to strategic development initiatives by up to 40 percent.
- Download the Applications Modernization At-a-Glance PDF, 98K
- Download the CI&R Applications Modernization profile sheet PDF, 75K
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
American Airlines
EDS is behind the continued success of American Airlines. Our Data Center Modernization Services helped the carrier migrate, consolidate, automate and virtualize infrastructure assets so it could respond faster to changing market conditions.