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Microsoft App Modernization Guidance for Azure

Proven guidance and best practices that help you confidently modernize your applications and data.

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  • Overview
  • Life cycle
  • Maturity model
  • Roadmap

Assess

  • Assess needs
  • Make an inventory
  • Are you ready?

Plan

  • Maximize value
  • Plan a strategy
  • The 6 Rs
  • Evaluate strategies

Launch

  • Launch your strategy
  • Build a proof of concept
  • Identity, security, and compliance best practices

Foundation

  • Lay the foundation
  • VMware and Azure VMware Solution
  • Oracle workloads
  • SAP applications and workloads
  • .NET applications
  • Java applications

Expand

  • Expand and optimize
  • Microservices
  • Serverless platforms
  • API wrapper
  • Replatform data

Innovate

  • Drive innovation
  • AI services
  • Best practices

Optimize

  • Optimize and scale
  • Scalability, performance, and reliability
  • API-first design principles
  • Low-code platforms
  • ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core
  • Drive business agility
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