Offering Brief | October 2017

Offering Brief

Application Transformation

Offering Brief

Go Cloud-Native

OVERHAUL KEEPS YOU IN THE GAME

With Forrester reporting companies are investing billions to complete their end-to-end digital

transformations, the competitive imperatives are clear. If you’re capable of rapidly transitioning your

entire software stack from monolithic systems to app-based solutions, you’ll gain advantage. If you’re

not, you’ll be left behind.

Cognizant’s Application Transformation enables you to leverage the continuous innovation and

agility of cloud-native applications via a customizable two-track offering. The first track supplies

comprehensive transformation services, which includes assessing your organization’s current

portfolio and automating application transformation, at scale, for as many legacy systems as needed.

The second track provides the knowledge transfer required to assist with transitioning your IT team

to a DevOps model for maintaining your transformed app-centric portfolio.

Quickly transform your existing systems into cloud-native apps and transition your team to a modern DevOps approach to gain, and sustain, competitive advantage.

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PATHWAY TO SUCCESS

Application Transformation offers you powerful and proven capabilities for achieving your cloud-na-

tive app goals. It supplies immediate, flexible assistance with transforming your legacy software

backlog to address competitive challenges. It can also provide assistance with transitioning your

internal teams to a modern DevOps model, which ensures you can sustain the transformed state

going forward.

Accelerated Speed to Market. Depending upon your needs, we quickly transform your apps using a

customized approach.

• Complete Portfolio Streamlining for an end-to-end transformation of all existing systems to

cloud-native modular microservices.

• Partial Transformation for fast cost recovery, we can transform a defined set of software

systems rather than your entire portfolio.

Agnostic Outputs. We ensure your transformed apps can run on any cloud platform, whether internal

or external.

Reduced TCO. Transforming existing applications offers considerable savings over investing in

entirely new solutions.

Increased Agility & Flexibility. Transformed applications significantly boost your enterprise’s capa-

bility to rapidly address evolving market demands.

Improved Sustainability. We help your team adopt DevOps to establish the expertise, processes and

innovation culture required for successfully supporting an app-centric environment.

Real-World Challenges Our Clients Face

Although Application Transformation can help regardless where your organization falls along the

digital transformation continuum, here are examples drawn from our real-world engagements with

Fortune 500 clients.

Inadequate Expertise: Many IT organizations have yet to develop the needed expertise to transform

their applications and are uncertain where to start.

Lack of DevOps: Some enterprises are developing app expertise, but struggle with transforming their

IT teams to a DevOps model quickly enough to meet digital transformation goals and objectives.

Insufficient Scale: Even where clients are undergoing a DevOps transition, many discover the

available talent and cultural shifts required cannot address the backlog rapidly enough to meet

competitive pressures.

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Our Leading Methodologies

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CUSTOMIZED TO YOUR NEEDS

Our highly flexible offering can be structured in numerous ways to address your specific situation and

digital imperatives. Delivered along two customizable tracks, Application Modernization and DevOps

Transition Support, either track, or both, can be pursued based on your organization’s needs and goals.

Application ModernizationFor those requiring a partner to rapidly transform applications, our framework includes:

DevOps Transition SupportFor those interested in transitioning their teams, we assist with knowledge transfer service for various

DevOps principles and practices such as:

Lean Startup. An engineering methodology that trims development cycles based on a process known

as Build, Measure, Learn.

Extreme Programming. A specific agile framework for producing higher-quality software by

emphasizing simplicity and the creation of a minimally viable product (MVP), which is quickly exposed

to end users to gain actionable feedback.

Pairing Programming. Two programmers work together, with one writing code and the other

reviewing it.

Test-Driven Development (TDD). An agile process that turns requirements into unit test cases, involves

writing the simplest possible code to pass a single unit test and repeating to pass subsequent unit tests.

Lean Startup. An engineering methodology that trims development cycles based on a process known

as Build, Measure, Learn.

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Assessment• Define transformation goals• Establish project scope• Determine outcome measures

App Redesign & Restructure• Leverage DevOps principles and practices• Build• Iterate• Continuously learn and improve

Prioritization Framework• Perform a discovery deep-dive• Establish systems requiring transformation• Create an app transformation schedule

Cloud Native-Operations• Deploy apps into production via leading

automation techniques• Provide continuous delivery for fast end-user

feedback• Continuously introduce new innovations to

meet evolving market needs

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Extreme Programming. A specific agile framework for producing higher-quality software by

emphasizing simplicity and the creation of a minimally viable product (MVP), which is quickly exposed

to end users to gain actionable feedback.

Pairing Programming. Two programmers work together, with one writing code and the other reviewing it.

Test-Driven Development (TDD). An agile process that turns requirements into unit test cases, involves

writing the simplest possible code to pass a single unit test and repeating to pass subsequent unit tests.

Continuous Learning. Replaces the traditional long discovery phase with ongoing small discoveries.

Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. Used in combination,

these three related agile processes enable faster, automated release cycles.

Continuous Innovation. The sum of the DevOps practices, it replaces “product release days” with

continuously introducing new product innovations to meet ever-changing market demands.

The Cognizant AdvantagePROVEN STRATEGY WITH UNPARALLELED ATTRIBUTES

To assist you with quickly addressing digital business imperatives and transitioning your IT teams to a DevOps

model for sustainability, Application Transformation offering provides you with the industry’s leading app

modernization offering. It includes the greatest breadth and depth of talent, unparalleled expertise and most

advanced infrastructure to ensure a rapid transition to cloud-native operations at scale.

Proven across multiple engagements at Fortune 500 enterprises, spanning a wide range of industries,

Application Transformation provides you with exclusive features and capabilities.

Cognizant Labs. Purpose-built facilities across North American and worldwide where we transform

applications and host your internal teams for direct engagement with learning DevOps and cloud-

native app development.

Innovation Culture. For successful and sustainable application transformation, innovation must be

re-introduced into your culture. This re-introduction is embedded in the DNA of our offering.

Rapid Results. Our approach is designed to supply you with cloud-native apps quickly and to teach

your internal teams how to build apps rapidly and sustainably going forward.

LET’S GET STARTED

With your competitors already diving into their application transformation initiatives, there’s literally

no time to lose. To ensure you can provide your customers with the digital experiences they expect,

leverage Cognizant’s wealth of expertise, experience and capabilities to catch up to your competitors,

meet your digital business goals and sustainably stay ahead of the rest.

For more information putting our Application Transformation offering to work for you,

please visit: www.cognizant.com/cognizant-digital-business/digital-engineering-services

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1. In 2017, Digital Transformation Budgets Will Top The Billion-Dollar Bar, Ted Schadler’s Blog, Forrester Research, 11/1/2016

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