Customers typically center an application development and modernization practice in one or more of the focus areas: Cloud-native apps, business applications, and low-code development.

Cloud Native App Development

Help customers build, launch, modernize and reliably scale websites and applications using the Microsoft Azure application platform and supporting solutions, such as containers and microservices. Help customers innovate with new cloud-native apps, and expand with specialized capabilities for providing IoT, AI, and mixed reality applications.

Business Apps & Low Code

Help customers develop and deploy new line of business apps and modernize legacy business applications to meet today's IT compliance needs and rapidly changing business needs.

Low-code platforms and products Power Apps and Power Automate enable faster and easier app development, deployment, higher productivity, reduced time to implement, and an accessible user interface for customers.

Frequent Services for App Modernization

PROJECT SERVICES

Custom App Dev
Citizen Developer Enablement
Low-code Enablement
Business Opportunity Identification
Solution Analysis, Scope & Design
Proof of Concept
User Experience Consulting
Workflow Creation in SharePoint
Centers of Excellence

MANAGED SERVICES

Critical response support
Reactive help desk support (Office, Intune, CRM Online)
Performance & Application Troubleshooting
Application Lifecycle Management (design, development, testing, production, errors corrections, updates, bug fixes, new versions)

PACKAGED IP

Vertical solution subscriptions
Industry-specific mobile apps
Industry-specific workflows
Function-specific workflows (e.g., HR, Procurement)
Customer Self-Serve Portals
e-Commerce functionality
Automated load balancing
Turnkey BI portals

Microsoft Power Platform provides a range of governance and administration capabilities that span across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Common Data Service.

These capabilities are designed to help the administrators and IT professionals in the organization set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor the use and adoption of the platform and its components across the enterprise.

Developing an environmental governance strategy means configuring environments and other layers of data security in a way that supports productive development in a customer organization while securing and organizing resources.

Power Automate

Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provides a rapid development environment to build custom apps for your business needs.

System Support

Power Automate is a service that helps you create automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and more.

Power Virtual Agents

Power Virtual Agents let's you create powerful chatbots that can answer questions posed by your customers, other employees, or visitors to your website or service.

Power Apps Portal

Power Apps makers can now create a powerful new type of experience: external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously.

AI Builder

AI Builder is a Microsoft Power Platform capability that provides AI models that are designed to optimize your business processes. AI Builder enables your business to use intelligence to automate processes and glean insights from your data in Power Apps and Power Automate.

By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65% of cloud application development. The Power Platform includes several key concepts and components to be aware of. Here are some of the essential ones:

Plan a Proof of Concept

WHY PERFORM A PROOF OF CONCEPT?

Proofs of concept (PoC) serve several purposes. One of the primary aims is to overcome customer objections by demonstrating that the solution will solve the problem it’s being designed for. Proof of concepts are one of the key tools when trying to displace the competition by rapidly showing value and hopefully a quick return on investment.

POC EXECUTION

Identify the technical resources needed for the PoC, including the technical implementation team and project management for tracking the progress of the engagement. During the PoC it is important that the initial design follows best practices and is designed for production (scaled down) from the beginning. Consider using a lowcode platform like Power Platform to build prototypes quickly. Using Power Apps for rapid application development and integration with cloud services will streamline any prototyping effort.

DEFINE SCOPE

A proper PoC is defined with a clear and concrete scope. Conduct an architecture design session (ADS) to align business and technical requirements and set clear goals. This should include:

Virtual machine management and upgrading
PowerShell script automation
Configuration Management
Network Monitoring

NEXT STEP

At the end of the PoC, create a report that explains the pros and cons of the delivery and clearly explain the value prop of moving forward with a real implementation to the stakeholders along with expected production costs over time. Assuming the stakeholders agree to move forward, put a plan into place to deploy the PoC into production while ensuring that the PoC is designed for production usage.

App Modernization & Innovation