IT modernization isn’t just some buzzword cooked up by expensive consultants and industry pundits. It’s a manifestation of the accelerating pace of change and skyrocketing impact of IT operations on organizational success.
An essential element of IT modernization is understanding how best to leverage the value of custom applications in ways that drive performance, security, availability, scalability and the ability to integrate. Research has shown that 77% companies with strong desire to integrate into legacy app environment as critical bottleneck in the application delivery pipeline. Custom apps are often essential to how an organization conducts business, interacts with customers and partners and empowers employees to get their jobs done better. They also enhance the value proposition for IT in general. As a result, investment in custom application development continues to grow at double-digit rates, exceeding $650 billion by 2025, according to estimates.
More and more frequently, that means turning to the cloud to develop, deploy and manage custom apps. With Oracle, organizations have a great way to maintain and improve that integration into legacy apps environments. Today, cloud’s role in IT modernization is tightly aligned with custom applications as organizations make strategic decisions on the best way to drive business value from long-standing investments in applications developed for unique requirements.
Factors Driving Cloud Migration for Custom Apps
Whether a custom app was developed years ago or is a recent addition to an organization’s application portfolio, IT leaders and business executives are intensely committed to maximizing the business value of custom software development. After all, the typical custom app takes about 4.5 months to develop at a cost that can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
But those applications can and should be modernized with new features and functionality, and brought into alignment with the organization’s attempt to modernize its entire IT operations, including incorporating technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as conversational interfaces. This is important because applications developed for legacy on-premises infrastructure are more expensive and complex to manage, chewing up a lot of time and the expertise of IT staff that might otherwise be deployed on other projects.
Security is another important reason why cloud migration is a great option for custom apps. As security risks proliferate and accelerate, it has become harder and more expensive for in-house teams to properly secure those applications. Working with a qualified, experienced and security-resourceful cloud provider—one that is expert in zero trust methodologies and the shared-responsibility model of cloud security—can greatly enhance security for custom applications.
It’s also easier and often more cost efficient to develop and maintain applications in the cloud. Older custom applications can be rearchitected as cloud-native software using containers and microservices, making them key parts of DevOps processes to accelerate application development and deployment for the business side.
In particular, momentum is rapidly growing for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies. Organizations whose underlying architecture for custom applications embraces multi-cloud and hybrid cloud need to know that their cloud partner can easily accommodate split architectures across application and database services.
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Download NowHow Oracle’s Cloud Migration Services Enhance Custom Apps’ Role in IT Modernization
Oracle offers a number of market-proven solutions—as well as new, cutting-edge options—to help organizations migrate their custom apps to the cloud. Those include:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a mix of high-performance systems powered by Intel® Xeon® third-generation processors, scale-out storage and industry-leading databases and applications.
- WebLogic Server, available as readily deployable images in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
- Cloud-native capabilities such as Kubernetes and serverless.
- Database options including Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service.
- Oracle Hands-On Labs for cloud migration engineering services and testing, as well as reference architectures for deployment guidance.
- Oracle Cloud Lift Services to enable easy, secure lift-and-shift migrations.
- Oracle Cloud@Customer, where Oracle designs and installs a private cloud environment on the customer’s premises as either a standalone architecture or as part of a hybrid cloud environment.
Whether your goal is to move, improve or modernize custom applications, Oracle’s cloud experts can help make the move to cloud a key part of your overall IT modernization efforts. For more information on why businesses are moving custom apps to the cloud, and how they are using Oracle to accomplish that, please click here.
