Start with the portfolio you already have: what each application costs to run, what it's worth to the business, and what's keeping it where it is. We assess before we recommend, then hand you a roadmap and business case that says exactly what to modernize, what to move, what to retire, and in what order.
Honest guidance from the team that actually performs the migration
Plenty of firms will hand you an application assessment. Far fewer have stood up the target architecture, run the cutover, and operated the result. We have. That's why our recommendations survive contact with execution. They're made by advisors who know what it takes to deliver them.
The full modernization lifecycle
From the first portfolio assessment to ongoing governance, we stay with you through every stage of modernization, not just the recommendation.
Advise
We assess your portfolio, recommend the right path for each application, and build the roadmap and business case to get you there.
- Conduct a full application portfolio assessment across cost, business value, technical health, and dependency mapping
- Recommend a disposition for each application—retire, retain, rehost, replatform, refactor, or rebuild—tied to a measurable business outcome
- Define the target-state architecture and a sequenced modernization roadmap, with a board-ready business case and TCO/ROI modeling
Implement
We build the landing patterns for the target state, pilot the riskiest moves first, and coordinate execution across every modernization workstream.
- Stand up reference architectures and landing patterns for the target state
- Pilot and prove the highest-value or highest-risk moves first, before committing the full portfolio
- Coordinate execution across migration, application modernization, and containerization workstreams
Manage
Application portfolios drift. We keep the strategy honest by governing dispositions, tracking cost and performance against plan, and refreshing the roadmap as the business changes.
- Govern and rationalize the portfolio on an ongoing basis as the estate evolves
- Track cost and performance against the business case you approved
- Refresh the roadmap continuously as new applications, platforms, and AI use cases emerge
Start with an Application Portfolio Assessment
Most organizations know that parts of their application estate are costing too much or holding them back. Fewer can say which apps, by how much, or what to do about each one. RapidScale's assessment turns that uncertainty into a prioritized plan.
In one structured engagement, we:
- Inventory and score every application across cost, business value, and technical health
- Recommend a clear path for each: keep, move, modernize, or retire
- Create a sequenced modernization roadmap and business case with budget requirements
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Explore portfolio strategy, modernization planning, cloud cost pressure, and customer outcomes to help you decide what to keep, move, modernize, or retire.
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