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As your organization successfully modernizes its mission-critical applications, you can expand your efforts. Your focus shifts from transformation to growth and optimization. You improve scalability, enabling newly modernized applications to handle bigger workloads. You build integration points that make it easy to add services. As you go, you find ways to continuously boost performance and improve the user experience.
In the App Modernization Guidance for Azure, the Expand cycle is crucial for capitalizing on cloud-native benefits. This is the time to rebuild monolithic application architectures and replatform your data. As you adopt more agile, scalable, cost-effective solutions, you can also maintain the reliability and security of your existing mission-critical systems.
Objectives for expansion
During times of expansion, your application modernization footprint grows. The main objectives are to:
- Improve scalability and integration points.
- Integrate new services to help support future growth and performance.
This guide provides best practices for modernizing:
- Monolithic application architectures
- Apps suited for serverless platforms
- Enterprise messaging and routing
- Mission-critical applications
- Data
Expected outcomes of expansion
In the application modernization maturity model, expansion is the goal of Agile Innovators—organizations seeking improve business agility and optimize operations. If your organization is ready, expansion offers the following outcomes:
- Improved user experiences powered by faster, more responsive applications.
- Increased application throughput able to handle more transactions and users.
- Operational efficiency, streamlined processes, and reduced manual intervention.
Impact and ROI during expansion
Expansion represents a significant milestone in the application modernization journey. Taking advantage of platform as a service (PaaS), your organization adopts a cloud-first mindset as it modernizes business-critical applications and rolls them into production.
During cycles of expansion, you enhance performance, reliability, and business agility, enabling your organization to quickly respond to market changes and customer demands. You add value through the operational efficiency that directly results from the solid foundation you set previously. Your efforts increase customer satisfaction and provide a competitive edge in the market—factors that compound business value and impact.
In addition, when you rebuild or replace traditional applications, you can build value and drive innovation through the API economy. You can manage and monetize APIs to create new revenue streams, drive digital transformation, and stay competitive.
Next steps
Continue the cycle of expansion and consider rebuilding monolithic applications using microservices.