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A seamless migration
Accelerate your cloud adoption journey
Cognizant Cloud Migrate accelerates your cloud adoption journey with a low-risk approach that addresses your migration challenges
How best to execute your cloud migration strategy? First assess your applications portfolio, then migrate it to your preferred choice of cloud options.
Cognizant Cloud Migrate is a comprehensive cloud migration offering that helps you execute your cloud strategy with a structured, risk-mitigated approach for full-stack migration that includes apps, infrastructure, security and DevOps. Cognizant’s tool-based framework both speeds time to market and adds value to your cloud-enabled business transformation projects.
Accelerate your path to cloud and discover why Gartner named us a Magic Quadrant Leader
LEARN MORECLOUD STEPS: ENSURING A SEAMLESS MIGRATION
The Cloud Migrate offering is powered by Cognizant’s Cloud Steps framework, which encompasses two stages: Assess & Plan, to determine workload-specific strategies and migration roadmaps; and Migrate & Validate, to securely migrate workloads to the cloud and validate benchmarks.
INSURANCE
Cloud migration accelerates app development cycles
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The challenge
A U.S.-based mutual life insurance company had difficulty adapting to the insurance sector’s constant digital transformation due to a massive, costly to maintain and hard to scale on-premises data center footprint. New application environments took up to four weeks to build, and the insurer wanted a more flexible and agile data center setup that would enable continuous delivery of software. Despite knowing that cloud migration was the best solution, the insurer was not keen to assign the responsibility of moving its core applications to inexperienced hands. Seeking a knowledgeable technology partner, the company contracted Cognizant, not only because of our cloud expertise but also due to our experience as a provider to the insurance industry.
Our approach
The insurer was keen to host application workloads in locations that would best meet its business, compliance and technical requirements. It engaged Cognizant to prepare the AWS public cloud to host new and existing applications and to assist with the migration.
Our main objective was setting up a scalable IT infrastructure that would reduce the time and effort needed to deploy new environments, introduce an updated toolset for continuous integration and deployment of software engineering practices, and implement security and compliance controls. We recommended an architectural approach that included leveraging key AWS capabilities that provide elasticity and a highly available and on-demand hosting environment. This approach would also enable the implementation of infrastructure security and vulnerability management, as well as automation capabilities to reduce manual effort, human errors and time to market. Within the first 18 months of a two-year engagement Cognizant migrated over 200 applications and 2,000 virtual machines to AWS cloud. The insurer’s new environment provides high availability, disaster recovery, elasticity and self-healing capabilities. It also offers various tools that enable deployment service management, web-based version control, issue tracking, configuration management and even offer automation servers and infrastructure-as-a-code software.
AWS cloud enables insurer to regain its competitive edge and secure its data
The new cloud environment is helping the insurer modernize application delivery and standardize its technology offerings on a secure, fully compliant infrastructure that is also highly available, intelligent and scalable. The company has reduced application development cycles by almost 80% and saved costs by using resources during non-business hours and eliminating seldom-used application environments that can be easily re-created.
~80%
reduction in application development cycles
200 applications
moved to the cloud in 18 months
Reduced
change processes from days or weeks to a few hours
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OFFERINGS
The Cloud Migrate offering is an integrated framework powered by automation, security and tools to ensure a seamless migration of your applications to a cloud-based environment.
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ARC-TERN
MIGRATION GOVERNANCE TOOL
Arc-Tern is Cognizant's easy-to-use, collaborative migration management and governance tool. Aligned with our in-house methodologies, it helps streamline and manage the migration process end to end and can support large projects involving physical, virtual and cloud-based hosts.
Arc-Tern acts as a “single pane of glass,” providing near-real-time status of all migration activities, including key risk items and bottlenecks. It standardizes and automates workflow management that includes alerts for activities scheduled and delays, if any.
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APR METHODOLOGY
SIMPLIFY IT ARCHITECTURE
Cognizant’s Applications Portfolio Rationalization (APR) methodology simplifies and synchronizes multiple disciplines, technologies, work streams and modules across large, complex applications and infrastructure. This industrialized approach enables high levels of automation by leveraging tools and frameworks. We carefully consider numerous factors, including business criticality and value of the IT product, the currency and relevancy of the technology, the cost of maintaining the product and more.
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BLUEPRINTS
70+ REUSABLE ACCELERATORS
Cognizant offers more than 70 reusable blueprints that can be used to accelerate cloud migration. Examples of these include blueprints for high availability/disaster recovery (DR), automation and back/recovery.
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RESILIENCY VALIDATION PLATFORM
SIMULATE AND TEST DISRUPTIONS
The Cognizant Resiliency Validation Platform (CRVP) is a multitenant platform for configuring and executing simulated disruptions on application environments. You can leverage this platform to conduct simulations of resilience validation and use IT monitoring tools to analyze results of multiple test scenarios.
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CRAFT FRAMEWORK
DEFINE SCRIPTING METHODS
CRAFT, Cognizant's proprietary automation framework for testing, defines the method for scripting business functionalities as libraries that can be reused and repeated among test cases.
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APP INSIGHT
ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND
Cognizant App Insight helps you analyze and understand applications built on Java and .Net. You can also analyze the impact of change proposals before changing code.
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ZERO DEVIATION LIFE CYCLE (ZDLC)
IT SYSTEMS DOCUMENTATION
ZDLC is a set of engineering quality tools deployed in the end-to-end lifecycle of systems (including traditional software developement life cycle). It provides precise, comprehensive documentation of IT systems, then continuously updates that documentation.
ZDLC can deliver up to 40% reductions in effort for as-is architecture discovery, process analysis and data lineage, as well as accelerate delivery through automation and improved quality, and drive down costs.
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VALUE STREAM MAPPING (VSM)
ARE YOUR APPS CLOUD-READY?
VSM is an automated portfolio assessment tool for analyzing cloud readiness for Java and .NET applications. It analyzes hundreds of applications in minutes, then provides a comprehensive Cloud Readiness Assessment Report for each application. VSM also identifies common anti-patterns and provides remediation steps to migrate applications to a cloud-native platform.
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