IT modernization: Future-proof your scale and agility

Future-proof your scale and agility

The path to IT modernization: 4 key success factors

For most organizations, IT modernization is a journey from traditional platforms and processes to a modern IT estate and a new operating model. Although modernization activities follow a natural sequence, your organization might focus on a specific stage of the journey, or work on all four factors simultaneously.

1. Align IT with business

Aligning IT and business strategies within your organization is a crucial first step. You’ll determine which modernization strategies fit your overall business strategy, find opportunities to align with that vision and develop a solid plan.

Results

• Detailed alignment and scenario planning
• Deeper understanding of ROI
• Investment in future cost savings, flexibility and business acceleration
• Ongoing business-IT evaluation of plans, feedback and metrics to shape modernization
  
  

2. Simplify and optimize IT

Complex, aging IT estates run up costs, impede quality and slow change. A technology refresh optimizes for cost through automation, leveraging secure IT outsourcing and streamlining systems, services and data.

Results

• Run-rate cost savings of up to 30% via outsourcing
• Continual optimization via automated workload management tools
• Drive innovative service development
• Cloud migration for agility and security
  
  

3. Modernize applications and data

Implementing a workload placement strategy for hybrid environments often presents technical and financial barriers. A productive solution is justifying the business case for each individual application, modernizing or transforming applications, then retiring them.

Results

• Upfront cost savings via application rationalization
• Modernize and transform for speed, agility and ongoing savings
• Deploy a cloud-based operating model
• Efficiently manage security, performance and financial requirements
  
  

4. Operate and secure hybrid at scale

In a modern hybrid IT environment, you can continuously innovate, provision IT assets on demand and provide consumption elasticity while eliminating IT’s traditional fixed assets. You’ll develop new strategies for managing hybrid on- and off-premise resources, including the cloud.

Results

• Integrated operations, with intelligent automation at scale
• Leverage analytics, AI and lean processes
• Secure ecosystem with encrypted data and role verification
• Monitor data traffic for cloud-to-edge awareness, compliance, audit and response

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• Optimize employee-centric service provision 
• Strategically redirect investments — and gain crucial buy-in
• Calibrate consumption, and save money as a result
• Proactively mitigate risk

A solid action plan for platforms and people

Making your IT modernization manageable

Modernizing your IT estate has the potential to transform your business. Not only that, but it’s vital to ensure its long-term success. As a result, kicking off such a large-scale, high-stakes project can be daunting. At DXC, our experts strive to make sure your IT modernization is planned and executed in bite-size, manageable stages.

There’s more to IT modernization than the right tools

It’s vital to consider people, capabilities and processes throughout your IT modernization process. From gaining buy-in from key internal decision-makers to supporting the employees who’ll see your IT estate evolve, our DXC experts deliver tailored change management strategies to see your IT modernization succeed.

From monumental challenge, to manageable plan

With your technical ecosystem set for overhaul, and optimizations across people, capabilities and processes to implement, IT modernization can feel overwhelming. To ease our clients in — and set them up for success — we’ve developed the IT4IT Capability Scan.