Cloud Migration: Azure acceleration with CAST Highlight

Accelerate
Azure Journey
and Value with
CAST Highlight

Agenda
• CAST Overview
• Highlight: Easy Business/IT Platform to accelerate Ramp-up & Value
added
• Demo
• Implementation Approach Example
• Product Overview details

CAST Mission: The Unit of Measure for Software
“To drive behavior and make the right tradeoffs
between speed, business risk and technical debt.”
Software Grades
Developers reputation
Skills promotion via social media
Outcome based business enablement
Improved relationship with clients
Client acquisition and retention
“CAST sheds light on issues before
they become production problems.”
Size
Resiliency
Security
Efficiency
Maintainability
Global SIsDeveloper
Communities
“CAST makes supplier
relationships transparent.”
“A highly disruptive concept that changes the game within G2000 internal IT and the $60B
Application Services market”
Global 2000
Standard Unit of Measure
Powered by CAST

Fast & Efficient Deployment
LOWADMSPENDINGPERAPPHIGH
CAST AAD Net Value
(TCO – Value delivered)
CAST HIGHLIGHT Net Value
(TCO – Value delivered)
CAST HIGHLIGHT
• Application Portfolio Health Assessment
• SaaS - Deployed in one week
CAST APPLICATION INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM (AIP)
• On Premises or SaaS (Managed Services)
• Deployed across the most critical apps in less than 90 days
HIGH STRATEGICIMPORTANCETO BUSINESS LOW

Agenda
• CAST Overview
• Highlight: Easy Business/IT Platform to accelerate Ramp-up &
Value added
• Demo

Fast & Secure Application Portfolio Analysis
Mitigate Software Risks
Reduce Application Costs
Optimize Resource Allocation
 Hi-level portfolio health assessment
 Objective software analytics
 Code-level analysis
 Lightweight SaaS platform

Application Portfolio Analysis Helps
Cloud Readiness Use Case
Digital TransformationIT Health Check
Technical Due DiligenceCIO Onboarding
IT Rationalization
Cloud Readiness
Create your baseline, Identify the
best candidates and execute your
onboarding roadmap into the cloud
Intro | demo

An Easy, Secure & Fast Process
Contributors
App Owner,Team Leader…
Surveys
Sourcing, app age, criticality
Cloud Value drivers…
Code Scan
Java, .Net, Objective-C,
PHP, ABAP, PL/SQL… 65
Production
12
Adaptability
87
Complexity
Custom
App Type
10 FTE
Est. Maint.
64
Business Val.
75
Cloudready
150 K
Tech debt
CLOUDREADY INDEX
BASED ON AZURE REQUIREMENTS

Application Portfolio Analysis Process
Executive sponsorship
established through global
communication (i.e. email to all
project leads).
Initiate
Scan&Assess
App owners across the globe complete an
application survey and download agent from
Highlight portal to analyze code stacks.
Analysis is performed in minutes, on their
network.
Step 1
Launch & Planning
Step 2
Distributed Analysis
Insight
Insightful software analytics and portfolio-wide risk heat
map available online, includes: short-term vs. long-term
technical risk and cost; technology mix; technical debt
estimation and distribution, etc.
Enterprise-wide portfolio intelligence available on a
secure, private cloud.
Step 3
Results interpretation & Recommendations

Why shall a Final Customer use Highlight ?

The CloudReady Foundations
Outcome
Identify Cloud Quick-Wins
Define a business-driven and technology-aware Cloud roadmap
Estimate migration effort and technology barriers
Surveys
Application Business Context
Cloud Opportunity
Code Patterns
Technical Impediments
Feet in Azure

COBOL
Supported Technologies
CloudReady Index available on J2EE/.Net Stacks

Demos
Link to a 5 mn teaser on HL the Value for Final Customer (English)
Link to a 7 mn demo of Portfolio rationalization+Cloud Migration scenario (English)
Link to a 7 Mn demo of Portfolio rationalization+Cloud Migration scenario (French)

Govern and accelerate your cloud Journey
Migration Approach
Govern and accelerate your Azure journey
Discover and
Assess
Discover and
rationalize server and
application.
Build migration plan
and business
justification.
Target and
Deploy
Prepare to migrate
applications and
servers to a modern
platform by providing a
solid security
foundation
Modernize and
Migrate
Redevelop secure
applications and move
them to the new on-
premises or cloud
platform
Support
Establish
recommended
practices and
troubleshooting
procedures

Discover Phase in Details
Highlights on your current state
WHAT - Bring business and IT leadership together to identify
business goals and application criticality for the company
and PaaS eligibility
Discover business goals & PaaS candidates

HOW – Method based on application level assessment
 Applications Source code scan to spot technologies, PaaS
workloads eligibility, software risk, complexity, frameworks
 15 min survey with the application owner to understand the
business value, impacts and PaaS Business value
WHAT - Catalog and rationalize your server and services landscape
with cloud-based dashboards and automation of
infrastructure classification to minimize impact to IT staff.
Discover your server and security landscape

HOW - Method based on local investigation (MAP toolkit)
 Data Processing and Global Catalog matching
 Hosting the server / application inventory in a customer trial
instance of Dynamics CRM online catalog

Discover Phase in Details
Highlights on your current state
WHAT - Bring business and IT leadership together to identify
business goals and application criticality for the company.
Discover business goals & PaaS candidates

HOW – Method based on application level assessment
WHAT - Catalog and rationalize your server and services landscape
with cloud-based dashboards and automation of
infrastructure classification to minimize impact to IT staff.
Discover your server and security landscape

HOW - Method based on Microsoft MAP toolkit
TARGETS
 Identify servers / platforms that are supported in Azure for quick
wins (Simple Lift & Shift)
 Identify apps candidates for migration and costs estimate, including
candidates for PaaS and modernization
 OUTPUTS
 Restitution of the analysis and surveys campaigns
 Customer gets access to Dynamics CRM inventory catalog
 Customer gets access to CAST Highlights dashboards
 Ideas of Portfolio rationalization opportunities


Business Discover deliverables samples
CAST Highlight Dashboards
10 min
demo

Rapid Portfolio Analysis using CAST Highlight
Typical activities and RACI in the Highlight Pilots with Microsoft
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CUSTOMER
Sponsor / AO
Campaign
Manager
CAST
Consultant
Exec Sponsor to confirm the initiative
Appoint and Empower Campaign Manager (trained 2h by CAST)
Identify the scope of applications for the Campaign (J2EE,.Net, Cloud Value)
Ensure at high level that source code will be accessible for the Targeted apps
Create an Highlight Instance & Campaign with Apps, Names, Business Units
Customize business survey questionnaire (optional)
Exec Sponsor to send email to the App Owners to present the Initiative (*Temp1)
Generate emails to the AOs with the questionnaire & Link to the agent (*Temp2)
Collect source code, install Agent, run analysis, fill survey & upload results to Portal
Detailed review of results and answers in Portal and Check for consistency
Findings published on Portal
Interpretation of Results to define draft recommendations
Present findings from analysis to Executive Sponsor to decide next steps
Confirm the specific Cloud Journey insights from Highlight
*Sample emails generated by the platform. Sample are available on demand
R = RESPONSIBLE A = ACCOUNTABLE C = CONSULTED I = INFORMED V = VALIDATE
INITIATEANALYZEINSIGHT
Envision a couple of days per Phase, depending mainly on Number/Distribution of app owners

Local Agent Technical Details
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 CAST Highlight agent typically runs on the Contributor’s desktop.
 The following prerequisites need to be fulfilled for CAST Highlight agent to run:
– Microsoft Windows Operating System superior or equal to XP
– Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 or higher (not to be used in compatibility mode);
Firefox 9 or higher; Chrome
– Source code is available and stored in text files accessible from a Windows
machine (share drive)
 No source code will be uploaded to the CAST Highlight portal.
– Only metrics will be uploaded.

• CAST Overview
• Highlight: Easy Business/IT Platform to accelerate Ramp-up & Value
added
• Demo
Agenda

The CloudReady Survey
How do you extract your application data
value?
By machine learning
By data analytics
By classic storage
What performance do you expect?
Number of users by peak
Number of users by frequency
Application responsiveness
Streaming and media services
How does your application interact?
Standalone (no interaction)
API exposed
Services exposed
How have you implemented application
security ?
Enterprise AD
Single Sign On
Multifactor Authenticator
What is the application data model?
Standard and supported as a service in the Cloud (PaaS)
Standard but not supported as a service in the Cloud (IaaS)
Proprietary but deployable in the Cloud (IaaS)
Not compatible in the Cloud
What is your evolution model and feedback
loop implementation ?
Waterfall
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Dev/Test loop
Agile development

The CloudReady Survey
What is the level of deployment process
automation for provisioning & configuration?
No automation
Semi-automated
Fully-automated
What are the application dependencies?
No dependency
Internal services exposed through an API
Internal services not exposed
External services
What is the application type?
Mobile or Tablet application
Desktop application
Web application
Back-End application
What is the expected level of SLA?
No specifically defined SLA
SLA with maintenance timeframe
SLA with continuity of service
Is this application multi-tenant?
No (single-tenant)
Yes, multi-tenant front with a dedicated database
Yes, multi-tenant front with a dedicated
schema (with common database)
Full multi-tenant application
What is the average skill on Cloud technologies
and practices within your development team?
None
Basic knowledge
Advanced skills & experience
Experts

The CloudReady Code Patterns
Access Control List
Application Logs
Application Settings Configuration
Code Execution
Data Encryption Keys
Execution Environments
Inter-Application Messaging
Persistent Files
Registry Settings
Sensitive Data Protection
Service & Schedule Tasks
Shared Caching
Temporary Files
Third-Party Dependencies
User Authentication
Cloud Requirements

The CloudReady Code Patterns
• 50+ Code Patterns based on Azure Requirements
• For each Code Patterns:
 A technology is attached (Java, C#, VB.Net)
 Positive (Boosters) or Negative (Roadblocks) contribution to CloudReady
 Criticality level (critical, high, medium, low)
 Migration impact (code, framework, architecture)

The CloudReady Code Patterns - Samples
Impersonate Identity (C#)
Look in web.config for <identity impersonate="true“
Look in source code for impersonationOption.*
User Authentication Critical CFA
Access Control List (Java)
Detect usage of AclFileAttributeView
In package java.io.file.attribute
Access Control List Critical CFA
Azure KeyVault Encryption (C#)
Look in web.config for <identity impersonate="true“
Look in source code for impersonationOption.*
Data Encryption Keys Low None

OS Dependencies (C#)
Detect usage of DLL imports, look in source code for DllImport(
Execution Environment High CF
Usage of Middleware (Java)
Look in source code for MSMQ or RabbitMQ or Tibco or MQSeries
Inter-Application Messaging Medium CFA
Application Logging Good Practices (C#)
Look in source code for Using System.Diagnostic
And Trace.WriteLine() or Trace.TraceError() or Trace.TraceInformation …
Application Logs Low None

Usage of Azure CloudTable (Java)
Look in source code for import com.microsoft.azure.storage.table.*
Registry Settings
References of COM components (.Net)
Look in csproj for <COMReference include=
Look in source code for server.create.instance or ComImport(
Code Execution High CF
Usage of Redis framework (C#)
Look in source code for Using StackExchange.Redis
Shared Caching Low None
Low None

The CloudReady Index
234
Based on
Survey Answers
= +120 pts
200
Based on Positive
Code Patterns
Boosters Roadblocks
80
Based on Negative
Code Patterns
-
CloudReady
53.8
Score Interpolation
Theoretical Min. Points
Application Score
Theoretical Max.
Points
= 234 pts
Score Interpolation
Theoretical Min. Points
Application Score
Theoretical Max.
Points
+18%
Code Patterns Score
45.6
Survey Score

CloudReady
CloudReady Index across the entire App Portfolio

CloudReady
Business Impact VS CloudReady Index

CloudReady
CloudReady Index @ App Level

CloudReady
CloudReady Index – Details on the Survey Score

CloudReady
CloudReady Index – Details on the Scan Score

Examples of Code patterns (60 in total for V1)
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Application Portfolio Analysis Helps
You Face Critical IT Challenges ( & )
Digital Transformation
Make strategic decisions around
transformation and modernization
with application measurement
demo | eBook
Technical Due Diligence
Know the health of the applications
your organization is acquiring or
integrating
demo | eBook
IT Health Check
Quickly diagnose areas to
mitigate risk and reduce cost
demo | eBook
CIO Onboarding
Gain objective insight into the
health of the application you
have just inherited
demo | eBook
Outsourcing Assessment
Assess the quality and
effectiveness of your outsourced
software and offshore partnerships
demo | eBook
IT Rationalization
Identify the risk of the applications
in your portfolio to determine
those assets to invest in or retire
demo | eBook

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