IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application Modernization Services to Azure 2024 Vendor Assessment by Peter Marston highlights the competitive landscape of service providers offering application modernization services to Azure. This report assesses nine third-party organizations based on their ability to provide these services, focusing on areas like migrating to cloud infrastructure, consolidating application instances, and modernizing applications to software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and microservices architectures.
Key Findings:
- Market Dynamics: The application modernization services market presents fierce competition due to digital transformation and business resiliency demands.
- Service Provider Capabilities: Providers excel in various areas, including end-to-end service delivery, deep Azure capabilities, and integration of experience design and AI strategies.
- Vendor Inclusion Criteria: Service providers must demonstrate strong capabilities across multiple disciplines, generate significant revenue, have global presence, and maintain a substantial number of certified professionals.
- Strategic Importance: Application modernization initiatives are increasingly crucial for unlocking business value, driving strategic growth, and addressing evolving business imperatives.
Advice for Technology Buyers:
- Long-Term Perspective: View service provider relationships as long-term commitments rather than one-time engagements.
- Alignment with Needs: Ensure alignment between application modernization needs and service provider strengths, focusing on business goals and objectives.
- Narrowing Down Options: Limit the pool of potential service providers to a select few based on experience, delivery capability, vision, and cultural fit.
Leadership Positioning: NTT DATA is positioned as a Leader in this IDC MarketScape, showcasing a forward-thinking strategy and industry-centric approaches to modernization. NTT DATA emphasizes technology innovation and organizational disruption to create new business value, offering a range of services from portfolio modernization to tailored solutions, leveraging strategic acquisitions to strengthen global delivery capabilities in product design, software engineering, and platform integration.