Break through barriers with Application Modernisation
Use Lumen expertise to make the move from legacy to leading edge. Modernise your existing applications on budget, on time and at speed.
Why your business needs Application Modernisation
Legacy applications trap data, limit automation, impact customer experience and add to costs. Modernisation enables digital businesses to become more scalable, secure and adaptable to changing customer landscape.
Develop cloud native applications
Cloud native applications combine microservices architecture with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and infrastructure as code mechanisms. This means you can deliver software more efficiently, reduce time to market and meet customer demand for accelerated business growth.
Create immersive user experiences
Customers today expect touchless interactions, virtual reality, digital simulations and AI enhancements in the applications they use. Deliver cloud-centric immersive experiences to increase customer engagement and inspire loyalty.
Unlock your data potential
Transform raw data into a strategic asset with in-app data analytics and visualisation. Add data-driven features for customers and make faster more informed decisions for strategic business growth.
Enhance operational efficiency
Our testing processes maintain application quality while maximising performance and operational efficiency. Automate day-to-day operations using robotic process automation, AI/ML and chatbots to free up your team for business development tasks.
Reshape applications to accelerate progress
From application infrastructure upgrades to full stack re-design and complex integrations, Lumen experts provide the strategy, architecture, development and ongoing support for all your modernisation requirements.
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What are Lumen Application Modernisation services?
Lumen Application Modernisation services provide strategic guidance and redevelopment support for all your application redevelopment projects. We can assist with:
- Monolith to microservices redesign.
- Adoption of cloud native applications.
- DevOps enhancements like CI/CD pipelines, testing automation and infrastructure as code.
- Big data analytics and machine learning workflows.
- On-prem to hybrid or public cloud migration.
- Adoption of serverless technology that replaces manually configured infrastructure with managed services.
- UI/UX enhancements like responsive design, personalisation, dashboards, gamification and more.
Rehost your applications, redesign your tech stack for the cloud, refactor legacy code or completely redesign and build cloud native applications from scratch. We analyse your requirements and suggest a solution that aligns with your business goals.
How does Lumen Application Modernisation work?
Your Lumen application modernisation journey begins with a thorough assessment of your existing infrastructure, code and tech stack. We meet all relevant stakeholders to understand business requirements, future vision and end-user expectations. Our team then provides feature guidance and prepares a project plan that is practical and achievable.
Next, we begin development, implementation and deployment. We follow agile software development practices like test-driven development and continuous delivery. Shorter release cycles ensure early feedback and enhance quality assurance. Our goal is to get applications into production as soon as possible and establish a continuous improvement culture.
Why choose Lumen for your application modernisation?
Lumen Application Modernisation services bring technology and management expertise for guaranteed success.
Credentials
Lumen is a certified partner of all major public cloud providers and VMware Principal Partner – Cloud Provider and VMware Cloud Verified Provider. We can meet any cloud requirement with confidence.
Experience
Our experts bring broad industry and functional expertise across many verticals like manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, retail, e-commerce and financial services and across market-leading toolsets and technologies. We have the capabilities to deliver effective solutions for any technical or business requirement.
Quality
We are leaders in testing techniques and methodologies, including Behavioral Driven
Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Scrum. Our experts can deliver applications on time without compromising quality.
Pricing
Enjoy world-class services at affordable rates with competitive and flexible pricing models. We support customer ROI demands with value-based pricing and utilise all existing onsite, offsite and offshore resources for further cost reduction.
Application Modernisation FAQs
What is application modernisation?
Application modernisation is the process of updating and upgrading existing software applications to ensure they are current, efficient and capable of meeting modern business needs. This can involve various activities, depending on the goals of the organisation and the state of the existing application. For example:
- Transitioning from legacy hardware to cloud platforms.
- Integrating with newer technologies, such as AI, machine learning or IoT.
- Restructuring an existing application to improve its performance or scalability without changing external behaviour.
- Ensuring that the application can easily share data and processes with other systems.
- Making applications more user-friendly, intuitive and in line with modern design principles.
The driving force behind application modernisation is the rapid pace of technological change and the pressure on businesses to stay competitive in a digital age.
What are the benefits of application modernisation?
Modernising applications leads to better performance, scalability, security and maintainability, all of which can support an organisation’s strategic goals. It brings a level of flexibility that’s invaluable in today’s rapidly changing business landscape. It allows companies to quickly adapt to market shifts, new business models or changes in user behaviour. Organisations can also realise significant cost savings due to decreased maintenance of outdated infrastructure and the potential to only pay for the resources they use.
What are the 5 Rs of application modernisation?
The “5 Rs” are a set of strategies to modernise legacy applications. The best choice often depends on the organisation’s specific circumstances, needs and long-term goals. The strategies are:
Rehost
Rehost or lift-and-shift involves moving the application as-is, usually from a data centre to a cloud environment. The primary motivation is usually to reduce the costs of maintaining physical infrastructure.
Refactor
Refactoring involves changing the application’s code or features to leverage cloud-native functionalities. It’s about updating the application to better fit the new environment without a complete redesign.
Rearchitect
The application is redesigned to fit a cloud-native framework either by redesigning monolithic applications into microservices or taking advantage of serverless architectures.
Rebuild
Discard the old application and rebuild a new one using modern technologies and platforms. It is preferable when the legacy system is too outdated, and the costs and complexities of updating it are too high.
Replace
Discard the old application and replace it with an existing commercial or Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. The idea is to move to a new system that meets the business’s needs more effectively than updating or rebuilding the old one.
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