Prepare Your Application for PaaS

• The application may have been written a long time ago, and have source code, knowledge base, or design principles misplaced or lacking, which makes it difficult to understand the design and build.
• The development team does not have a standardized practice for assessing cloud benefits and architecture, design principles for redesigning an application, or performing capacity for planning activities.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

• An infrastructure-driven cloud strategy overlooks application specific complexities. Ensure that an application portfolio strategy is a precursor to determining the business value gained from an application perspective, not just an infrastructure perspective.
• Business value assessment must be the core of your decision to migrate and justify the development effort.
• Right-size your application to predict future usage and minimize unplanned expenses. This ensures that you are truly benefiting from the tier costing model that vendors offer.

Impact and Result

• Identify and evaluate what cloud benefits your application can leverage and the business value generated as a result of migrating your application to the cloud.
• Use Info-Tech’s approach to building a robust application that can leverage scalability, availability, and performance benefits while maintaining the functions and features that the application currently supports for the business.
• Standardize and strengthen your performance testing practices and capacity planning activities to build a strong current state assessment.
• Use Info-Tech’s elaboration of the 12-factor app to build a clear and robust cloud profile and target state for your application.
• Leverage Info-Tech’s cloud requirements model to assess the impact of cloud on different requirements patterns.