osc2012: how a 2000-year old knot untangles legacy

Adam Burden Global Managing Director, Emerging Technology Innovation

Accenture LLP

December 14, 2012

HOW A 2000-YEAR-OLD KNOT UNTANGLES LEGACY

Accenture • 257,000+ people, serving clients in over 120 countries • 40,000+ Java developers • Serve 92 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than

three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500

“I did that and I’m not proud of it”

Adam Burden • 20 years with Accenture • Master Technology Architect • Career of Client Delivery • Leadership Roles Modernization Cloud Applications

Large Enterprise Application Debt • More than 1000 applications • Impediment to business agility • 1 in 3 redundant or unused • Custom legacy especially problematic • Too expensive to rip & replace • Can’t afford not to act

Application Portfolio Transformation • Tools you likely already have • Adoption of Open Source catalyst • Themes of agility and cost reduction • Getting started

A failure to plan is a plan to fail.

Rationalize & Transform • Build momentum early • Engage & align business • “Get Healthy” & “Stay Healthy” • Assign dispositions Replace Retire Consolidate Remediate Replatform Migrate

Transformation in Practice • Apply innovation • Automate for quality • Resist change & transform

Migration • Extract & transform • Not line-by-line • Target PaaS architectures in future

Replatform at Scale • Impact & remediation automation • Proven rules • Accelerate testing

Begin the Transformation • Untangle your Gordian Knot of applications • Leverage Open Source • Apply innovation and bold thinking