Case Study
The Drive to Modernization
The Drive to Modernization Successful top-down initiatives for IBM ® i applications WHITEPAPER // THE DRIVE TO MODERNIZATIONContents 03 Why read this? 04 Executive summary 05 Getting to IT-business alignment 06 The ladder to the cloud 09 How to start harnessing the power of modern application development + cloud 07 Modernizing the monolith 12 A final word The drive to modernization 2Why read this? For a good reason, the cloud, refactoring, and microservices are on everyone’s lips these days. They hold the promise of reinventing businesses altogether and streamlining operations to drive revenue, business innovation, growth, and resiliency. The trouble is that IT has some idea, but probably not the whole picture, of where to start in breaking down monolithic applicatio