Renovate Applications on Azure: Accelerate Enterprise Digital Transformation with Cloud4C

A smartphone with nil or outdated applications is next to a dead box. Quite in tandem, an adopted cloud platform without end-to-end connectivity and synchronicity to enterprise applications and systems could result in an unthinkably stunted digital transformation experience. No wonder, leading cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure deliver hundreds of native tools, technologies, solutions, and applications to advance specialized tailored business functionalities. This paired with ever-changing customer needs has directed enterprises to fine-tune, re-architect, periodically enhance/innovate (real-time in many cases) their on-prem IT infrastructure, legacy enterprise applications on the embraced cloud environment. No surprise again, enterprise application modernization is globally heralded as a must strategic move to realize the complete, intelligent advantages of cutting-edge cloud platforms. In resonance, within 2025, this subset of the mammoth global cloud market would reach an astonishing 32 billion dollars!

With Cloud4C, the world’s largest end-to-end application-focused cloud managed service provider, avail a transformative application modernization experience on Microsoft Azure cloud. Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild adopted enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM, CMS, Database Management Apps on Azure. Seamlessly test revitalized applications, integrate CI/CD processes, adopt tailored and loosely coupled microservice architectures and containers, embed serverless functionalities, and deploy on environments of choice. Gain hyper agile performance and flexibility, industry-leading availability and scalability, smart security, and uninterrupted resilience of your modernized applications. Accelerate your organizational process lifecycles including DevOps, app go-to-market timelines at best ROI. Build world-class innovative capabilities with advanced application AI, Cognitive capabilities powered by Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Application Modernization saves 15-35% annual infra savings including upto 70% costs on hardware, software, and resources

65% organizations would aim to aggressively modernize applications by 2023 around the world

Automation is the Top priority for enterprises adopting application modernization

The Unparalleled Advantages of Application Modernization on Azure Cloud

Common Challenges

Managed Application Benefits

Rising costs for application upgrades
Lack of Universality
Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility
Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual
Delays in Application Issue Management
Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise
Pertaining application risks at multiple levels
Regulatory and compliance hassles
Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure
Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities
cost upgrades using application modernization on azure

Rising costs for application upgrades

  • With applications modernized on the Azure cloud, achieve excellent, near real-time application upgrade capabilities at a flexible, pay-as-you-use model.
  • Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild enterprise applications with ease to leverage the advanced benefits of Microsoft Azure.
  • With Azure App Service, embrace cloud-native architectures for management agility, automate processes to truncate costs at every stage of the application management journey
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Lack of Universality

  • Gain a universal dashboard overview and control for all applications modernized on the Azure Cloud including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, third party enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
  • Achieve seamless integration between heterogeneous, complex environments (applications, backend systems, and data) via Azure native connectors and APIs
application performance with application modernization on azure

Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

  • Quickly deploy web apps and APIs on the Azure Cloud. Seamlessly develop with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers or running on Windows or Linux
  • Scale application performance basis requirements, gain high availability of 99.95%, and hyper agility. Leverage Azure AutoScale and achieve traffic routing, load balancing with Azure Front Door
application performance with application modernization on azure

Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

  • Zero disruptions to backend application infra including servers, networks, storage, compute on the cloud. Enhance Go-to-Market timelines.
  • Preserve business as usual and lower transition costs with a dedicated Migration Factory approach. Leverage Azure App Service Migration Assistant to achieve zero friction application migration such as .NET web apps to the cloud in three, automated steps
  • Secure application DevOps with dedicated microservices, serverless, container architectures on Azure. Embrace Kubernetes on Azure and Azure Container Registry along with seamless process monitoring utilizing Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights.
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Delays in Application Issue Management

  • Specialized consultants ensure all application migration, modernization, and management issues are met with ease, guaranteeing 24/7 monitoring and application support
  • Automate issue alerts and initiate remedy protocols. Perform intelligent and interactive, live troubleshooting with Azure Service Diagnostics.
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Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

  • Bid adieu to all application management resource hassles with dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk handling, application migration, modernization, and delivery experts acting as an extended client team
  • Gain in-depth strategic, advisory, and consulting for application modernization and management end-to-end
end to end application administration using azure

Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

  • Bolster application security with dedicated security frameworks, architectures firmly integrated within your Organizational DevOps, ITSM.
  • Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated tools for scanning, vulnerability management, and encrypting. Build rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications
  • Leverage cutting-edge cloud-native security solutions Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Azure Sentinel, Azure App Service Diagnostics. Protect application perimeters with Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Firewall, and Application Gateway.
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Regulatory and compliance hassles

  • Applications backed and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, systems including local regulations, data residency laws, international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2.
  • Avail specialized cloud-native tools such as Azure Governance, Azure Policy to govern and implement compliance checks across adopted systems. Improve threat protection and extensive compliance checks with Azure Security Center
single cloud managed services provider relationship under a single SLA

Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

  • Secure your Business Continuity Planning with automated Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, stringent RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or specialized DRaaS solution on cloud
  • Host your applications, backend data center assets including SaaS applications, web applications, critical enterprise systems on your closest location or across multiple regions to minimize disaster risks. Choose your nearest Azure hosting location.
  • Build personalized mobile workforce applications to enable fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments
representation of disaster recovery and backend infra management on azure

Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

  • Enhance application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, user experience with cutting-edge automation solutions including RPA. Streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry.
  • Maximize intelligent automation in application operations with fully modern application development platforms including automated logging, scaling, availability, and predictive alerting.
  • Avail cloud-native and proprietary AI, Data Analytics solutions to unlock enterprise intelligence and data-powered decision-making. Build application innovation capabilities with the advanced Azure Cognitive encompassing intelligent content search, cognitive computing features, unified API management, and personalized functionalities with Personalizer

Common Challenges

  • Rising costs for application upgrades

    Managed Application Benefits

    cost upgrades using application modernization on azure

    Rising costs for application upgrades

    • With applications modernized on the Azure cloud, achieve excellent, near real-time application upgrade capabilities at a flexible, pay-as-you-use model.
    • Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild enterprise applications with ease to leverage the advanced benefits of Microsoft Azure.
    • With Azure App Service, embrace cloud-native architectures for management agility, automate processes to truncate costs at every stage of the application management journey
  • Lack of Universality

    Managed Application Benefits

    application universality while deploying application modernization on azure

    Lack of Universality

    • Gain a universal dashboard overview and control for all applications modernized on the Azure Cloud including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, third party enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
    • Achieve seamless integration between heterogeneous, complex environments (applications, backend systems, and data) via Azure native connectors and APIs
  • Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

    Managed Application Benefits

    application performance with application modernization on azure

    Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

    • Quickly deploy web apps and APIs on the Azure Cloud. Seamlessly develop with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers or running on Windows or Linux
    • Scale application performance basis requirements, gain high availability of 99.95%, and hyper agility. Leverage Azure AutoScale and achieve traffic routing, load balancing with Azure Front Door
  • Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

    Managed Application Benefits

    application performance with application modernization on azure

    Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

    • Zero disruptions to backend application infra including servers, networks, storage, compute on the cloud. Enhance Go-to-Market timelines.
    • Preserve business as usual and lower transition costs with a dedicated Migration Factory approach. Leverage Azure App Service Migration Assistant to achieve zero friction application migration such as .NET web apps to the cloud in three, automated steps
    • Secure application DevOps with dedicated microservices, serverless, container architectures on Azure. Embrace Kubernetes on Azure and Azure Container Registry along with seamless process monitoring utilizing Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights.
  • Delays in Application Issue Management

    Managed Application Benefits

    representation of limited application disruption on azure

    Delays in Application Issue Management

    • Specialized consultants ensure all application migration, modernization, and management issues are met with ease, guaranteeing 24/7 monitoring and application support
    • Automate issue alerts and initiate remedy protocols. Perform intelligent and interactive, live troubleshooting with Azure Service Diagnostics.
  • Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

    Managed Application Benefits

    representation of application base management on azure

    Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

    • Bid adieu to all application management resource hassles with dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk handling, application migration, modernization, and delivery experts acting as an extended client team
    • Gain in-depth strategic, advisory, and consulting for application modernization and management end-to-end
  • Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

    Managed Application Benefits

    end to end application administration using azure

    Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

    • Bolster application security with dedicated security frameworks, architectures firmly integrated within your Organizational DevOps, ITSM.
    • Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated tools for scanning, vulnerability management, and encrypting. Build rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications
    • Leverage cutting-edge cloud-native security solutions Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Azure Sentinel, Azure App Service Diagnostics. Protect application perimeters with Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Firewall, and Application Gateway.
  • Regulatory and compliance hassles

    Managed Application Benefits

    representation of application risk management on azure

    Regulatory and compliance hassles

    • Applications backed and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, systems including local regulations, data residency laws, international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2.
    • Avail specialized cloud-native tools such as Azure Governance, Azure Policy to govern and implement compliance checks across adopted systems. Improve threat protection and extensive compliance checks with Azure Security Center
  • Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

    Managed Application Benefits

    single cloud managed services provider relationship under a single SLA

    Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

    • Secure your Business Continuity Planning with automated Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, stringent RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or specialized DRaaS solution on cloud
    • Host your applications, backend data center assets including SaaS applications, web applications, critical enterprise systems on your closest location or across multiple regions to minimize disaster risks. Choose your nearest Azure hosting location.
    • Build personalized mobile workforce applications to enable fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments
  • Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

    Managed Application Benefits

    representation of disaster recovery and backend infra management on azure

    Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

    • Enhance application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, user experience with cutting-edge automation solutions including RPA. Streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry.
    • Maximize intelligent automation in application operations with fully modern application development platforms including automated logging, scaling, availability, and predictive alerting.
    • Avail cloud-native and proprietary AI, Data Analytics solutions to unlock enterprise intelligence and data-powered decision-making. Build application innovation capabilities with the advanced Azure Cognitive encompassing intelligent content search, cognitive computing features, unified API management, and personalized functionalities with Personalizer

Cloud4C | MSP + Advanced Specialization + Competencies

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Advanced Specializations

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Modernization of Web Application to Microsoft Azure

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Threat Protection

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Windows Server and SQL Migration to Microsoft Azure

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Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

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Linux and Open Source Database Migration to Microsoft Azure

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SAP on Microsoft Azure

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Analytics on Microsoft Azure

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Kubernetes on microsoft azure

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Networking Services in Microsoft Azure


Competencies
Gold

Cloud Platform

Gold

DevOps

Gold

Datacenter

Silver

Data Platform

Gold

Cloud Productivity

Gold

Security

Gold

Data Analytics

Silver

Small and Midmarket Solutions

Gold

Application Integration

Gold

Application Development

Intelligent, End-to-end Cloud4C Application Modernization Services on Azure

While enterprise applications form the crux of day-to-day business operations, administering them end-to-end is a herculean task. The challenge has been further exacerbated due to fluctuating market trends, evolving customer needs, and high maintenance costs hence requiring enterprises to adopt flexible applications that could be willfully customized, updated, and enhanced in real-time. Amidst such dynamic high-performance demands, even a single operational hitch, flow delay, or outage on premises could result in catastrophic implications for daily operations and end experiences. Such exhaustive app modernization requirements could be best achieved only on the cloud such as Microsoft Azure.

With Cloud4C’s end-to-end Azure application modernization offerings, restructure, build, deploy, and scale enterprise applications across variant IT-delivery landscapes with industry-best availability, agility, and uninterrupted resilience. With Azure’s fully managed modern application development platform (Azure App Services), adopt an innovative cloud-native backend architecture and modernize middleware-OS-platforms-development environment frameworks and libraries. Integrate disparate systems and platforms with multi-purpose APIs, streamline complex app database management, infuse CI/CD with DevOps to accelerate Go-to-market timelines, and embrace world-class multi-layered app security for end-to-end protection.

Leverage cutting-edge process automation tools, products, and advanced Azure native solutions such as Azure App Services, Azure Container Registry, Azure Cognitive Services, Personalizer, Azure Application Insights, App Service Diagnostics, Azure Monitor, Azure Content Delivery Network, Azure Autoscale, and Azure Front Door, Azure Functions, Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Active Directory, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Policy to administer-advance application lifecycles end-to-end with ease and unprecedented agility, cost-savings. Gain a single pane of glass to manage your diverse, disjoint IT landscape with ease. Avail 24/7 application support for end customers.

The 6 R Azure Application Modernization Methodology

Application modernization on the cloud is a dire necessity to revitalize IT operations and scale up delivery, service experiences. However, most enterprises only lift and shift applications and end up with massively limited, degraded performances due to the lack of sufficient app modernization on cloud experts.

Cloud4C’s exhaustive cloud strategy, development, full-stack architecture, maintenance, and security engineers act as an extended team to modernize a client’s application environment end-to-end on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. With the advanced 6 R Methodology, rehash and reboot your applications to unlock extra agility, enhanced performance, and end-user excellence powered by an intelligent Azure cloud backend.

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REPURCHASE (Drop and Shop)

This phase involves minimalistic transformation to migrate to a cloud-based environment. The enterprise drops the existing on-prem license of the software being used and moves onto the cloud-based version of the same software, essentially repurchasing the license.

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REHOST (Lift and Shift)

Identify the applications and existing workloads to be migrated and lift and shift them to the cloud ecosystem. The migration involves cutting-edge native tools and support services that help move the application stack from the existing on-prem to the cloud environment

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REPLATFORM (Lift, Change, Shift)

This process involves the same methodology as that of rehosting platforms and applications from the on-prem environment to the cloud ecosystem. However, here, some customizations are made to ensure that the platforms run best on the cloud.

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REFACTOR/RE-ARCHITECT

This phase or approach involves the most effort and expenses as the existing on-prem applications, databases, and workloads are significantly over-hauled, often at the codebase levels, to move them to the cloud. A common approach in this phase is to break up monolithic structures into microservice architectures for advanced performance on the cloud. Hence, such an approach ensures leveraging the best features of the cloud as the software is redesigned to match the cloud’s native environment.

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RETIRE

This practice involves the recognition of applications or platforms that are redundant and would cause unnecessary load/overprovisioning on the cloud thereby shooting up operational costs. Under such circumstances, firms might opine to retire and replace the application altogether in favour of a cloud-friendlier version.

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RETAIN

Businesses might opt to keep some legacy, on-prem applications running as they are delivering high performances and linked to critical projects. In such a case, the other core systems might run from the cloud and the retained on-prem applications might operate standalone or in sync with the cloud apps via APIs.

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A Deep Dive into the Cloud4C Application Modernization Services for Azure

Avail Cloud4C’s industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on Azure. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes. Azure native solutions such as App Service Migration Assistant to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to Azure cloud in just three, fully automated steps. Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including Azure CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.

With the power of Azure cloud-native architecture and its fully managed enterprise modernization platform - Azure App Service - Cloud4C helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, opentext, industry applications on Azure Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks under the Azure App Service Environment, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption using Azure Autoscale and Azure Front Door.

Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the Azure Cloud. Cloud4C addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, redis, etc. Realize personalized digital transformation capabilities with Azure Personalizer. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch perimeter security solutions such as Azure App Service Diagnostics and Web App Firewall for world-class data protection.

Integrity of applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the Azure cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and Connectors. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.

A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle. With DevOps methodologies embraced on and powered by Microsoft Azure, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for Azure, orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage Cloud4C’s key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the Azure advantage, develop applications on the language of choice - .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice running on Windows or Linux, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry. Leverage Azure native automation solutions to achieve hyper-agile app release and go-to-market timelines without compromising availability, scalability, user experience, and continuity. Embed security by design in the application DevOps lifecycle: DevSecOps.

The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs. Leverage Azure native tools to design, deploy, and run microservices: Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Fabric Mesh, Azure Functions, Azure Event Grid, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure API Management, and more.

If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach (Azure Functions environment) for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on Azure to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency.

With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management with dedicated cloud-native tools such as Azure Active Directory. Perform intelligent troubleshooting with App Service Diagnostics, track application health and performance with Azure Monitor, App Dynamics, and Azure Application Insights, secure perimeters with Web Application Firewall and Application Gateway, and achieve advanced threat protection with Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Operations Center, etc. Embrace game-changing preventive maintenance capabilities (Self-Healing Operations).

With Cloud4C’s application managed services for Azure Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets with Azure Policy and Azure Governance. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and organization’s progress again.

Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the Azure cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native Azure hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.

With Cloud4C’s turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.

Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the Azure cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, reduce latency with Azure Content Delivery Network, power AI-backed contextual searching, boost usability with Personalizer, and manage all APIs from one universal interface. Azure’s fully managed modern development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.

  • Application Migration on Azure and Cost Management

    Avail Cloud4C’s industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on Azure. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes. Azure native solutions such as App Service Migration Assistant to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to Azure cloud in just three, fully automated steps. Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including Azure CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.

  • Industry Applications Management on Azure

    With the power of Azure cloud-native architecture and its fully managed enterprise modernization platform - Azure App Service - Cloud4C helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, opentext, industry applications on Azure Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks under the Azure App Service Environment, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption using Azure Autoscale and Azure Front Door.

  • Database Management on Azure

    Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the Azure Cloud. Cloud4C addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, redis, etc. Realize personalized digital transformation capabilities with Azure Personalizer. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch perimeter security solutions such as Azure App Service Diagnostics and Web App Firewall for world-class data protection.

  • Application Integration on Azure

    Integrity of applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the Azure cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and Connectors. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.

  • DevOps on Azure

    A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle. With DevOps methodologies embraced on and powered by Microsoft Azure, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for Azure, orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage Cloud4C’s key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the Azure advantage, develop applications on the language of choice - .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice running on Windows or Linux, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry. Leverage Azure native automation solutions to achieve hyper-agile app release and go-to-market timelines without compromising availability, scalability, user experience, and continuity. Embed security by design in the application DevOps lifecycle: DevSecOps.

  • Microservices on Azure

    The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs. Leverage Azure native tools to design, deploy, and run microservices: Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Fabric Mesh, Azure Functions, Azure Event Grid, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure API Management, and more.

  • Serverless Architecture on Azure

    If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach (Azure Functions environment) for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on Azure to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency.

  • Application Security and Event Management on Azure

    With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management with dedicated cloud-native tools such as Azure Active Directory. Perform intelligent troubleshooting with App Service Diagnostics, track application health and performance with Azure Monitor, App Dynamics, and Azure Application Insights, secure perimeters with Web Application Firewall and Application Gateway, and achieve advanced threat protection with Azure Sentinel, Azure Security Operations Center, etc. Embrace game-changing preventive maintenance capabilities (Self-Healing Operations).

  • Compliant-ready Application Architecture on Azure

    With Cloud4C’s application managed services for Azure Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets with Azure Policy and Azure Governance. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and organization’s progress again.

  • DR and Business Continuity Planning on Azure

    Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the Azure cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native Azure hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.

  • Automation and Intelligence on Azure

    With Cloud4C’s turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.

    Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the Azure cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services, reduce latency with Azure Content Delivery Network, power AI-backed contextual searching, boost usability with Personalizer, and manage all APIs from one universal interface. Azure’s fully managed modern development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.

Into the Cloud4C Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach

PHASE 1: ASSESSMENT
  • Discovery Workshops
  • Industry and geo-specific frameworks
  • Assessing at-risk applications and loopholes
  • Risk and security assessment with priority points
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis with Risk Mitigation Costs
  • Cloud4C Endorsement Priorities
  • Recommendation priorities for application modernization
  • Stakeholder buy-in and funds
PHASE 2: PLAN
  • Laying out the modernization blueprint
  • App migration and transformation approaches
  • Migration strategy and target landscapes for deployment
  • Development and Testing Plans
  • Document Impact Plan and Document Project Milestones
  • Budgeting
  • Stakeholder buy-ins and funds release
PHASE 3: EXECUTION
  • Project Kick-off
  • Configure Cloud Platforms
  • Quality Checks
  • Security Checks and Authorization
  • App Health and Functionality Check
  • Report Status to Migration Teams
  • ROI Validation
  • De-commission Technologies
  • Project Sign-Off

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Why Adopt the Cloud4C Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach?

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In-depth discovery workshops and end-to-end consultations across the entire application migration project lifecycle

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Fail-proof, secure, and risk-averse application migration framework tailored to organizational needs and objectives

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Robust industry, geography, and compliance-specific Cloud4C Application Migration factory approach for faster migration at zero disruption

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Comprehensive transition strategy involving the entire applications partner ecosystem to seamlessly achieve organization’s transformation objectives

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Leveraging cloud-native & underlying certified migration tools powered by automation and intelligence to enable quicker transition, faster Go-to-Market (GTM), and enhanced ROI

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Leveraging Azure App Services to develop highly available, custom web apps for Windows and Linux at scale

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Leveraging built-in monitoring tools- Azure Monitor and Azure App Insights to monitor application health and performance, availability and usage of all enterprise web applications

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Embrace the built-in security control of Azure App Service for application networks, monitoring & logging, identity management, data protection, and configuration management. Secure advanced protection for web apps via cybersecurity best practices - Authentication through Azure AD, role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Key Vault for managing secrets, and network security groups (NSGs).

Success Stories

BESCOM
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BESCOM

Leading electricity and utility supplier organization obtains uninterrupted application availability and seamless performance through Multilayer security and pre-integrated DR.

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Valueleaf

Innovative brand consultancy and parallel agency successfully adapt to a hyperscalable operational cloud paired with hyper application performance and real-time support.

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Leading Middle East Airport

Transformative Azure PaaS migration paired with Azure Application Service and Kubernetes to enable high-performing application modernization for a Global Top 10 Airport.

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Nodal Ministry Organization

Ground-breaking Azure migration paired with top-notch application modernization, database modernization services achieved 99.95% application-level uptime for complex IT environment of a national level Nodal Ministry.

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Why Application Modernization Services on Azure with Cloud4C?

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One of most trusted Managed Azure cloud services and Application Modernization providers in APAC, MEA, and the Americas for 12+ years

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World’s largest Application-focused, high-end managed services provider with AIOps-driven Azure Managed Operations

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24/7 Support backed by 2000+ cloud certified experts (including Azure Kubernetes, DevOps experts) adept with robust ITIL, ITSM, CoBIT delivery processes, 23 dedicated Centres of Excellence

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Zero Friction Azure Application Modernization Model with industry-leading Application Migration Factory approach, 25000+ Apps, and Databases migrated

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4000+ enterprise customers including 60 of Fortune 500 companies including 5 of Top 20 Global Banks

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Presence in 26 nations worldwide including successful deployment of Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi, and Community Azure Cloud platforms

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High application availability 99.95%, hyper-scalability, industry-best uptime with fail-proof 50,000+ transactions per hour

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Proven SAP on Azure Cloud expertise managing 10,000+ SAP instances and 2300+ TB of HANA Database

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Proven expertise with IBM, Oracle, OpenText, Infosys, and cloud-native enterprise applications management including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS transformation on Azure

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Host and deploy applications at the Azure region of choice ensuring high availability and zero disruptions

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Proven end-to-end Application Modernization expertise with dedicated development, engineering, maintenance, administration, security monitoring acumen

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Dedicated DR on Azure offerings for heterogeneous, complex application environments with automated recovery-backup, failback-failover mechanisms

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Dedicated Application Managed Security Services on Azure Expertise including Azure Sentinel, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated SOCs

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Cloud4C proprietary automation solutions including Self-healing Operations, Automation Delivery platforms, and RPA solutions

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Expertise with hundreds of Azure cloud-native tools and applications, best managed according to tailored business processes

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Cost-effective Pay-per-use model under single SLA

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1 Billion+ Fail-safe Application Managed Hosting Hours administering 40000+ VMs

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Strict compliance to regulatory and in-country data residency standards

Azure Application Modernization - FAQs

  • What is meant by App modernization?

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    Application modernization on cloud entitles customizing, rearchitecting, or fine-tuning applications to seamlessly integrate and run with the adopted cloud platform.

    Legacy applications are often hardwired to specific systems, kernels, or backends and hence perform poorly on cloud if simply lifted and shifted.

    To leverage the best of the advanced cloud architecture and ensure high workload performance, modernizing applications should be on the top of the bucket list for enterprise owners.

  • How do you achieve application modernization?

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    Application modernization could be done in six fundamental approaches or the 6 Rs: Repurchase, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Retain. The first approach involves simple transition of the usage of an on-prem software to its cloud version, essentially changing licenses.

    Rehost involves lifting and shifting applications as is to the cloud environment while Replatform includes the same methodology but with a few customizations for better performance on the cloud.

    Refactor or Rearchitect involves a complete overhaul of the applications, including breaking down monolithic structures into simpler modules or microservices and redesigning codebases to not only migrate them to cloud but making them cloud-ready end-to-end.

    Retire and Retain involves practices to replace worn-out, redundant software or retaining existing, highly critical on-prem applications as-is, respectively.

  • What are the main components of application modernization?

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    Application modernization impacts the entire app’s lifecycle, inputs, and outputs.

    Hence, to fully modernize applications, enterprises must also refactor app databases, fine tune database management platforms, modify application networks-protocols-libraries, customize servers, integrate with DevOps, and streamline app security.

    Firms can leverage services of application modernization partners like Cloud4C or native cloud-tools to achieve the above without disruption.

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