Evolving your application portfolio to address changing business demands

Keeping pace with constant change requires an IT environment that evolves quickly, enabling an organization to agilely respond to change while continuing to create value. Our experts can help you assess your application landscape and plan what applications should be modernized, migrated, re-platformed, consolidated, decommissioned, or replaced based on your strategic business and technology objectives.

Through our end-to-end application modernization and rationalization services, we work with you to continuously improve your application portfolios, achieving desired business outcomes—now and into the future.

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Application portfolio rationalization

Our experts use AI-augmented tools and processes to create a dynamic view of your application portfolio, enabling us to continuously identify issues and make recommendations for improvement. Using AI and other advanced technologies, we deliver the following:

  • In-depth understanding of each application, including functions, interdependencies, business value, required support skills, and more
  • Big picture view of the entire application portfolio to determine whether it meets current objectives and to determine its future evolution
  • Clear assessment of the portfolio’s costs and risks
  • Alignment of the portfolio with defined business and technology objectives
  • Recommendations for the best portfolio path (modernizing, migrating, re-platforming, consolidating, decommissioning or replacing applications)
  • Insights for evaluating the scope and impact of any portfolio change
  • Rigorous cost and productivity improvement metrics

Our services also support related portfolio rationalization business activities, including business process reengineering, change management, training, and more.

Application portfolio assessment methodology

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Application modernization

Through application modernization, you can preserve and enhance the value of your enterprise applications without replacing them. We use a variety of modernization strategies, methodologies and tools to meet the unique needs of each client, regardless of their business and IT landscape. For example, our cloud modernization solutions replace legacy system processes with innovative SaaS-driven processes, as well as refactor existing processes using cloud-native components and platforms.

Our application modernization services also include specialized expertise in modernizing mainframes. We help clients transition from mainframes to more agile, flexible and less costly platforms, while preserving the value and stability of legacy applications.

In overseeing large-scale application modernization projects, our extensive global delivery network shortens delivery timeframes and reduces costs, while our quality assurance and testing services use automation to reduce costs and time to market. We also tap into our extensive alliances network to identify the best solutions with full objectivity.

Other portfolio paths: migration, re-platforming, consolidation, decommissioning, replacement

Migration

Our application migration services cover all aspects of the migration life cycle—from planning and implementation to testing and support. Following an in-depth strategic assessment of your IT landscape, our migration experts prepare a clear and detailed migration roadmap and migrate your applications on time and on budget using best-in-class migration tools and processes.

Re-platforming

We have in-depth expertise in applying the five methods generally used to accomplish re-platforming, including reverse engineering and programming, automated code conversion, legacy code encapsulation, as-is code execution, and off-the-shelf component replacement. Not all methods are applicable to all applications, so it’s common to use multiple approaches in the same environment.

Consolidation

Often multiple applications perform similar functions or manage the same data, which creates challenges. For example, the same data may need to be inputted multiple times by users or data in the multiple systems may be out of sync. In these cases, we may recommend consolidating applications.

Decommissioning

Sometimes the cost of maintaining an application is higher than the value it generates for the business. This is especially true for applications that have a small user base and/or increasing maintenance costs due to obsolescence, software entropy or other reasons. In these cases, we will work with you to determine whether to decommission the application.

Replacement

Based on a careful evaluation, the most practical and cost-effective choice may be to replace a legacy system with a modern system that offers more advanced technologies and functionalities.

What sets us apart

In addition to comprehensive application services, we offer unique differentiators that ensure your application environment operates with excellence.

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Business alignment consulting

We advise on aligning IT investments with business strategies, helping optimize your digital transformation roadmaps for long-term scalability and market leadership.

Industry customization

Our application services are tailored to meet specific industry needs across the industries we serve.

CGI Application Services Optimization Program (ASOP)

ASOP is an end-to-end approach for delivering application management services, supporting application development, and maintenance. As a business-focused approach, it ensures your strategic objectives are centered on business outcomes. ASOP encompasses frameworks, processes, tools, and other enablers from the CGI Management Foundation, with a particular focus on result-driven performance and continuous improvement.

Managed services delivery approach

CGI DigiOps, our unified infrastructure and application management services delivery approach, combines people, processes and AI-powered technologies to improve outcomes, ranging from greater operational efficiencies, cost savings, and faster decisions, to better performance, system availability, and end-user experiences.

Global delivery centers with data sovereignty

We provide secure, compliant, and cost-optimized global delivery centers with localized data residency options to meet data sovereignty requirements while advancing scalability and agility.

Service management best practices

Our ITSM frameworks are based on the latest Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices. These best practices, combined with our automated service delivery and governance models, ensure transparency, resilience and cost control.

Alliances

We closely collaborate with leading global technology providers, including ServiceNow, Microsoft, Google Cloud, AWS, UiPath, and OpenAI to drive digital innovation.

 

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Given today’s dynamic market conditions, CGI’s application modernization and rationalization services, powered by CGI DigiOps, help you navigate an increasingly complex environment of systems, processes, software, and vendors to achieve tangible and trusted business outcomes.