SIZING ANALYSIS
Introduction
The Sizing Analysis is part of the Migration Services. It supports decision making when performing
large-scale application changes or migrating existing applications to new platforms.
Sizing analysis serves the application stakeholder who needs to fully understand the impact
of large-scale application changes or hardware/software platform changes, e.g. changing business
data model or migrating to different database management system. It improves manageability
of the migration, improves quality of technical decisions and reduces riscs.
Keywords: impact analysis, automated source code analysis, platform migration, database
migration, business process re-design.
The audience is ICT management and migration teams.
Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Sizing Analysis is to analyze the impact of large-scale application
changes and platform migration.
It builds on the Baseline Assessment which establishes a knowledge base of all application
characteristics and services to pinpoint impacted areas and to identify solution strategies.
Required
input |
Process
overview |
Output |
-
Customer’s migration plans |
| -
Application source code |
| -
Application |
| |
design/maintenance |
| |
documentation |
| |
|
|
| - Interview
stakeholders to understand migration plans |
| - Intake
of source code and documentation |
| - Inventory
of source code and documentation |
| - Parsing
of the code |
| - Build
Meta Repository |
| - Evaluate
metrics and documentation |
| - Evaluate
solution strategies |
| - Publish
Sizing Analysis Report |
| - Publish
Sizing Analysis web site |
|
| -
Application overview, indicating |
| |
Languages used |
| |
Inventory of software components |
| |
Inventory of documentation |
| |
Size metrics |
| -
Sizing assessment |
| |
Impact metrics |
| |
Design issues |
| |
Programming quality risks |
| |
Data storage risks |
| -
Documentation |
| |
Documentation Web Site |
| |
Sizing Analysis Report, incl Risk Mitigation Advice |
|
| Characteristics |
Advantages |
| - Identification
of impact of large-scale application changes |
| - Identifies
problem areas and solutions |
| - Automated |
| - Processing
time, 4-8 weeks |
|
| - Full
insight in application impact, risks and solutions |
| - Improves
manageability |
| - Improves
quality |
| - Cost
effective |
| - Based
on automated, repeatable process |
|
For more information about Sizing Analysis please
contact us.