Application
Modernization Services
on Microsoft Azure

Common Challenges

• Rising costs for application upgrades

  Managed Application Benefits

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

• 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.