For Application Development & Program Management Professionals (Length: 17 pages)

October 17, 2008

Application Modernization Taxonomy Clarifies Choices And Paves A Path For Progress

This is the first document in the "Application Management Continuum Stages" series.

by Phil Murphy

with Stephanie Moore, Randy Heffner, Jeffrey S. Hammond, Ken Vollmer, Tim DeGennaro


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Modernizing aging application portfolios presents application development and program management professionals with a bevy of confusing choices — the IT industry uses terms with overlapping and conflicting meanings that have ultimately lost all clarity. How do application renewal, modernization, transformation, migration, and rehosting differ? Forrester's application modernization taxonomy introduces a framework to simplify modernization choices based on a finite list of actions and lists the tools and services that are useful for each action.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemThe Previous Decade Set The Stage For Today's Modernization Issues

itemSimple Options To Modernize Complex Ecosystems

itemThe Four Fates, The Strategies, And When To Use Them

itemThe Taxonomy Of Available Tools And Services And When To Use Them

itemIs SOA Conspicuously Absent?

recommendations

itemUse The Fates And Taxonomy To Clarify Choices And Pave A Path To Progress

This research assimilates the legacy modernization experiences of thousands of Forrester client organizations with Forrester's considerable body of research around the solutions available from vendors.

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Analyst: Phil Murphy
Technology: Application Development, Application Development Processes & Tools, Architecture & Technology Strategy
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America