Elevate - Innovation Platform Services

Based on 20+ years in business and 1,000's of successful projects delivered, InCycle's team of industry experts has acquired or developed valuable experience, frameworks, and technology to accelerate enterprise digital innovation and maximize customer ROI. These strategies, tools, methodologies and capabilities have been "codified" for customer adoption, engagements and most importantly, speed time to production (value). The result is Elevate, InCycle’s state of the art IT innovation platform designed specifically to accelerate application modernization, AI solutions and migrations to Azure.

ELEVATE SET-UP & CONFIGURATION SERVICES

InCycle's Innovation Platform is an Azure based SaaS application and does not require traditional installation. Post purchase, InCycle will provision customer environments and user accounts. Customer projects and professional service engagements are focused on effectively setting up and configuring customer environments to support select business initiatives. InCycle’s Innovation Platform is used in whole or in part, depending on customers goals, capabilities, and timelines. Custome initiatives

PLATFORM MODULES

Championed by a multi-dimensional team, including Azure expert architects, the following business initiatives and corresponding platform modules are available and supported by professional services.

1. Portfolio Management - App Rationalization (seeks to streamline workloads in favor of standardization, consolidation and cost reductions)

Activities:

• Application and workload inventory
• Defined technologies, business value and contextual relevance
• App/workload analysis
• ROI/business case development

2. App/workload Portfolio Analysis (modernization strategy)

Activities:

• App/workload categorization and triage
• Business and technical characteristics
• App/workload prioritization by quadrant (probably, definitely, possibly, and unlikely)
• Top app/workload in-depth review

3. Modernization Strategy & Roadmap (per workload)

Activities:

• If/and/or analysis (business scenarios, applied technologies, urgency etc.)
• ROI/financial analysis (current costs, target state costs and modernizations costs (e.g., effort)).
• Modernization architecture (AI assisted)

4. App/workload Migration/Modernization Implementation (per workload)

Activities:

• Backlog generation (AI assisted)
• Landing zone generation (Azure etc.)
• Architecture as code
• Infrastructure as Code
• Governance as code
• Application delivery pipeline(s)
• Disaster recovery and readiness

5. Platform Engineering

Activities:

• Application patterns
• Cloud service preferences
• Security and governance standards
• Team capabilities (required)
• Validated templates
• Automation

6. Monitoring, Reporting & Analytics

Activities:

• Enable application monitoring
• Alerts & notifications
• Performance testing
• Cost analysis (reconciliation)

NEXT STEP

All projects are unique and customer specific. Each initiative and platform module has its own deliverables unique to customer context. Professional services vary depending on customer initiatives, desired modules and business objectives. Contact InCycle for professional service specific to your goals.