Azure Migration: Assessment (4-wk)

Organizations that want to migrate workloads on the cloud, base their migration roadmap on a detailed ‘Assessment’. Mphasis has the right sets of tools – domain knowledge, accelerators/tools, technical acumen, and in-depth understanding of Microsoft Azure technical ecosystem – to lead organizations with a thorough assessment of workloads and present recommendations that set a foundation for a predictable and cost-efficient cloud migration strategy.

Mphasis’ Azure migration framework is based on Mphasis’ value proposition for cloud foundation, adoption, & governance. The robust workload migration framework to the cloud is tested and trusted through various clients' deployments to reduce risk, increase simplicity, and manage progress.

Azure Migration Assessment provides the foundation for migration by discovering the ready status of applications, utilizing Mphasis accelerators working along with Customer Application SMEs/Stakeholders. The fruition of 'Assessment' determines the application readiness towards migrating to the cloud.

Assessment to determine application readiness includes -

STRATEGY

• Domain consulting, expertise & knowledge base to enable enterprise cloud adoption journey
• Articulate business outcomes, measurable metrics, and KPI tracking
• Understand financial considerations
• Consider technical benefits

PLAN

• Tool based digital estate rationalization; consider value stream mapping and reduction in overall TCO
• Planning and optimization for workload disposition to minimize risk and maximize throughput
• Monitor/report with stakeholders
• Define digital estate, application inventory, and baselines

READY

• Automation accelerators: DevOps, CI/CD, SecOps
• Reusability: blueprints, playbooks & templates
• Adopt runbooks, next step to streamline migration journey
• Approved inventory baseline, design document framework, skills readiness

NOTE – The next levels of migration include plan and implementation. The influencing factors - applications complexity footprint, number of apps, legacy apps vs standard apps, need of modernization if applies, any specific project or client-related timelines – are matched with the priorities to manage progress for organizations.