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Application Modernisation Revive

Supporting secure and cost-effective use of legacy applications into the future.

Application Modernisation is a Cenitex service that helps organisations extend the life of critical applications tied to unsupported versions of Windows. It provides secure pathways to modernise or migrate these applications without redevelopment. 

Service Summary

Revive provides a pattern-based approach that modifies application and operating system settings at the native level. This enables legacy applications to run in modern environments at a lower cost, without major changes to the application. 

Revive aims to extend the product lifecycle of legacy applications running on end of support (EOS) and outdated Microsoft Operating Systems (Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 including 32 & 64-bit compatibility).

What’s Included

Phase 1: Discovery & Assessment

  • Discover and assess Windows server inventory, application dependencies and resource utilisation
  • Capture architectural data
  • Assess virtualisation potential and
  • Assess architectural gaps
  • Classify complexity: Standard or Complex

Phase 2: Modernisation

  • Prepare migration strategy for all identified unsupported Windows platforms
  • Design New deployment platform based on assessment data
  • Test migrations and migrate workload
  • Rollback failed migrations
  • Report, Smoke test, UAT and Performance test 

Ongoing: Health Checks

  • Annual Assessment and remediation of compatibility issues caused by configuration changes in the legacy applications, OS updates and patches post modernisation.
  • Annual Health Check is an optional service component for managed customers and mandatory for customers not managed by Cenitex

Project Coordination is included.

Prerequisite

  • Minimum of 5 servers
  • Customers to supply the server(s) (physical or virtual) and volume storage to be used as the target state for modernisation activities.
  • Completion of Phase 1 and assessment outcome as “feasible” are prerequisites for Phase 2.
  • Customer to run User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as part of sign-off process

Add-On

  • Virtual Server
  • Physical Server
  • Operating System and Support
  • Storage

Service level

  • 90-day warranty period
  • Request fulfilment business hours

The service offering is based on a combination of one-off professional services and annual Health Checks. Per server costs vary depending on the total number of servers in scope

Talk to our team

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please book in some time with our team.