Accelerate application modernization with TCS and Google Cloud 

Overview

Cloud native is the way forward for modernization and growth.

In this era of digital disruption, enterprises are striving to improve business agility, drive innovation at scale, accelerate time to market, and build resilience and scalability to be more competitive. However, a key challenge arises from legacy technologies that are monolithic, unscalable, require manual efforts and involve lengthy application development cycles for releasing new products and services. Enterprises looking to overcome these challenges are turning to cloud-native application development and containerization to fuel growth, accelerate innovation, and find quick resolutions to customer concerns.

Solution

Enable faster application development without compromising on quality and security. 

TCS offers end-to-end services—from legacy application assessment to migration and modernization—to help you achieve purpose-led growth from your Google Cloud transformation initiatives. 

• Cloud strategy and assessment: We help develop a robust cloud adoption strategy starting with IT landscape discovery and maturity assessment. We leverage TCS’ Cloud Counsel for infrastructure and application assessment, and identification of migration patterns. Our pattern-based approach allows us to use a catalog-based pricing model for a simplified migration planning and accurate assessment of TCO.

• Migration: TCS uses a Machine First™, factory-based execution model to quickly migrate workloads to Google Cloud. It leverages TCS accelerators including Cloud Mason to build a robust foundation on Google Cloud using industry-specific blueprints; TCS Cloud Ascend to map as-is application states to cloud target design patterns based on a centralized reusable pattern library; Cloud Mutagen to fast-track application code remediation for cloud migration and containerization; Zipped Agile for automated provisioning of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI-CD) pipelines and DevOps maturity assessment. 

• Modernization: Modernization is often high-touch and more changes are required to application code compared to relatively simpler cloud migrations. We employ a factory-based modernization approach powered by TCS Cloud Ascend and TCS Cloud RAMP accelerators. Cloud Ascend leverages our extensive experience in microservices and containerization backed with a centralized repository of cloud native design patterns aligned to industry best practices and Google Cloud’s architecture framework. Cloud RAMP augments the migration cycle with starter kits and guidelines to quickly build and deploy microservices, containerized workloads and Anthos services.

• API-fication: TCS offers full stack API management services using Apigee for API assessment and roadmap, architecture blueprint, foundation setup, factory-based API implementation, governance setup, and API reliability services. We partner with customers on their API journey from initiation to mobilization and evolution into API maturity. 

Benefits

Build an agile digital core to lead the future.

The benefits of TCS’ factory model are many. It accelerates application development, database design, various types of testing, monitoring, management, API development and life-cycle management for common cloud architecture and design patterns, resulting in:

• 40% reduction in development cycle time for containerized workload.

• 30% reduction in cost of quality. 

• Fast-tracked domain-driven microservice decomposition and design for specific industry verticals.

• Automated deployment of common architecture blueprints and CI-CD pipelines.