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What is Application Modernization? 

Business Application modernization refers to updating legacy applications to newer frameworks, architectures, and technologies to align them with current business needs and technical standards. As organizations strive for agility, scalability, and efficiency, modernizing applications is no longer an option but a necessity. It enables businesses to adapt quickly to evolving market demands, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and enhance user experiences. 

This process may include migrating on-premises applications to the cloud, refactoring code for better performance, integrating modern APIs, or reimagining the app to leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Modernization ensures that organizations can maintain their competitive edge while optimizing operational costs. 

Modern businesses face increasing pressure to modernize their applications, streamline operations, and stay ahead of disruptive trends. Prolifics’ comprehensive business application modernization approach ensures businesses achieve these goals with minimal disruption and maximum efficiency. Prolifics help organizations modernize their legacy systems to adapt to today’s digital demands. Through cutting-edge tools, cloud migrations, cloud-native development, and modernization frameworks, we:

• Transition legacy applications to scalable, cloud-native architectures. 

• Enhance application performance while preserving critical business logic. 

• Introduce modern workflows and automation to optimize operations. 

• Deliver a seamless transition with zero disruption to business continuity. 

Prolifics Business Application Modernization Solutions 

Our tailored solutions empower businesses to embrace modernization seamlessly: 

• Application Modernization
  From legacy modernization to digital transformation, we use assessments, gap analyses, product evaluations, and innovative approaches like “like-for-like” modernization strategies and new business models to deliver impactful outcomes. 

• Enterprise Application Development
  We specialize in rapid app development, custom web/mobile apps, and cloud-native development using cutting-edge methods and tools like Low Code, MS Power Apps, Dynamics 365, Angular, React, and platforms such as Azure, AWS, and IBM Cloud. 

• Application Maintenance
  With SLA-based production support, code maintenance, and cloud optimization, we reduce technical debt, rationalize applications, and identify redundant code for maximum efficiency. 

Prolifics’ Approach to Application Modernization 

Prolifics Guiding Principles for Modernization Success 

Prolifics follows these key principles to ensure success in application modernization: 

1. Zero Disruption

Prolifics ensure that business application modernization efforts cause no interruptions to your ongoing business operations. Our methodologies are designed to: 

• Minimize downtime by carefully planning phased rollouts and parallel runs. 

• Preserve data integrity and business workflows throughout the transformation. 

• Provide robust fallback mechanisms to ensure continuity during unexpected issues. 

2. Maximize Modernization Velocity

Time is of the essence in modernization projects. Prolifics accelerates legacy system modernization through the process by: 

• Leveraging pre-built frameworks, reusable assets, and automation tools. 

• Streamlining processes with rapid assessments and gap analyses. 

• Adopting agile practices to ensure incremental delivery without delays. 

3. Enhanced User Productivity

Modernization isn’t just about technology; it’s about empowering users. Prolifics: 

• Upgrades applications with user-friendly interfaces and enhanced functionalities. 

• Integrates tools that automate repetitive tasks, freeing users to focus on higher-value activities. 

• Provides training and support to help teams quickly adapt to new systems.  

4. Accelerate Time to Market

In a competitive market, speed is crucial. Prolifics optimizes development timelines to: 

• Enable quicker deployment of new features and functionalities. 

• Reduce the time required for testing and quality assurance through automation. 

• Deliver products that are ready for market faster without sacrificing quality.  

5. Reduce Technical Debt

Technical debt can stifle innovation and growth. Prolifics addresses this by: 

• Identifying and eliminating outdated or redundant code. 

• Standardizing and optimizing codebases for maintainability and scalability. 

• Laying the foundation for future enhancements and integrations. 

6. Opportunity for Innovation

Modernization is an opportunity to unlock your organization’s full potential. Prolifics: 

• Introduces emerging technologies like AI, ML, and cloud-native architectures. 

• Develops solutions that encourage creativity and innovation within teams. 

• Provides tools to foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability. 

7. Preserve Business Logic

Your business logic is the backbone of your operations. Prolifics ensures that: 

• Critical customizations and workflows built over years are retained. 

• Legacy systems are transitioned without losing key business functionality. 

• Enhanced platforms support existing processes while enabling modernization.  

8. Reduce Coexistence Costs

During phased modernization, the coexistence of old and new systems can be costly. Prolifics mitigates this by: 

• Streamlining integrations between legacy and modernized systems. 

• Optimizing maintenance workflows to reduce resource overhead. 

• Planning transitions to minimize duplicate system costs. 

9. Reduce TCM & TCO (Total Cost of Modernization & Ownership)

Cost-effectiveness is at the heart of Prolifics’ modernization approach. We achieve this by: 

• Using cloud-native architectures to lower infrastructure costs. 

• Implementing efficient processes that minimize resource and time expenditures. 

• Delivering scalable solutions that ensure long-term ROI and lower overall ownership costs. 

Through these principles, Prolifics ensures a seamless, impactful, and cost-effective application modernization journey for its clients.

Why Prolifics?

App modernization is a game-changer for organizations looking to stay competitive, and transitioning from outdated legacy systems to modern applications enables businesses to enhance agility, scalability, and customer satisfaction while reducing costs and ensuring security.

Prolifics is uniquely positioned to guide organizations through the complexities of modernization. With a robust portfolio of services, a proven track record, and a focus on innovation, we deliver scalable, sustainable, and transformative solutions tailored to your business needs. Prolifics has an internal toolset to accelerate the app modernization journey.

Our proprietary App/Code Profiler & Transformer toolset is designed to revolutionize application modernization. Powered by advanced AI foundation models, it analyzes code to uncover dependencies, pinpoint legacy libraries, detect security vulnerabilities, and more. Simultaneously, the toolset generates data models, UX component models, and other critical modernization assets.

The toolset efficiently extracts business logic and converts starter code into modern languages for organizations modernizing applications, making it perfect for upgrading from COBOL, RPG, PowerBuilder, VB6, and similar legacy technologies. It also facilitates the creation of synthetic data and test scripts for newly generated code, enabling seamless manual or automated testing.

Download our latest whitepaper on Accelerate Application Modernization: How AI and ML Streamline and Enhance the Modernization Process to learn more about how we can tailor your modernization to your unique needs and ensure you get the results you want.