SixPivot Application Modernisation - Proof of Concept

Business Challenge: Organisations face critical challenges with legacy applications that limit competitive advantage: • Technology obsolescence – Existing applications not keeping pace with current or future technology needs • Limited scalability and agility – Applications not benefiting from the scale and flexibility offered by cloud computing • Slow innovation cycles – Teams spending excessive time maintaining apps and infrastructure instead of innovating • Rigid architecture – Unable to quickly update or adapt to changing business requirements • Rising maintenance costs – Legacy systems requiring significant resources to operate and support • Security and reliability gaps – Lacking built-in updating, security capabilities, and automated disaster recovery • Poor customer and employee experiences – Outdated applications unable to deliver modern user experiences

Instead of starting from scratch, organisations can modernise existing applications. Many start with "lift and shift" migration to take immediate advantage of cloud benefits, then move to more advanced modernisation techniques.

Our Solution: SixPivot brings deep software engineering and DevOps expertise to build solutions that work immediately and scale for the future. Our Application Modernisation offering reviews your target application, identifies existing challenges, and uncovers modernisation opportunities using Azure cloud services.

Modernisation is the process of transitioning an organisation's applications, methods, and data management to a cloud-first or hybrid cloud approach, transforming how people interact with the business.

Application Modernisation Engagement • Review and select existing application for migration • Define target state for app service migration • Analyse application dependencies • Identify software changes for more effective Azure service utilisation • Design solution architecture for migration • Conduct proof of concept to validate approach (if required) • Migrate source code to Azure DevOps or GitHub • Configure CI/CD build and deployment pipelines • Deploy application and database to Azure using pipelines • Transfer knowledge to your team for ongoing support • Deliver Application Migration Strategy roadmap for future migrations

Key Benefits Accelerated Innovation & Time to Market: When organisations don't have to devote as much time and resources to maintaining apps and infrastructure, they can spend more time innovating. Cloud-based tools and services further help streamline the development process, resulting in faster time to market.

Secure & Reliable: With a cloud-first approach, organisations can use built-in updating and security capabilities to help safeguard their workloads. Other built-in features include task automation for high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and performance monitoring.

Compatibility & Agility: The advantage of modernising apps isn't just that they'll work with the most current technology; they'll keep working even as technology evolves. This seamlessness allows for quick updates and changes to meet current and future business needs. It also enables automatic scaling, so apps continue to work well when there are sudden increases in demand and instantly reduce costs when there are sudden decreases in demand.

Deliverables • Application assessment report identifying modernisation opportunities • Solution architecture design for migration • Proof of concept validating migration approach (if required) • Migrated source code with configured CI/CD pipelines • Deployed application and database on Azure • Application Migration Strategy roadmap for future migrations • Knowledge transfer and documentation

Ideal For: Organisations with legacy applications requiring modernisation, those planning cloud migration, or businesses seeking to accelerate innovation by reducing infrastructure maintenance overhead. Suitable for staged approaches, from initial "lift and shift" to comprehensive cloud-native rebuilds.