30/03: SixR

Category: Buz Words
Posted by: bagheljas
Enterprise Applications Rationalization (EAR) produces an Applications Disposition Plan (ADP) for starting or continuing an enterprise Journey 2 Cloud(J2C). The Applications Disposition Plan refers to the following SixR:
  • Retire: Either the Business Function can be served by another Application in the Portfolio or Not in Use
  • Retain: Presently Optimized keep As is or Not in Scope or No Business Value in Changing Deployment
  • Rehost: Lift-n-Shift or Tech Refresh to Infrastructure As a Service(IaaS) Deployment
  • Replace: Replace the business function with Software As a Service(SaaS) Deployment
  • Replatform: Replace the systems architecture with Function As a Service(FaaS), Platform As a Service(PaaS), or Container As a Service(CaaS) Deployment
  • Rewrite: Rewrite with Cloud Native, or Open Source Architectures and Technologies


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