Teceze Application Portfolio Assessment & Strategy builds a complete inventory of your applications, then scores each one on business value, technical health and cost to run. You get a disposition decision for every application, a costed roadmap sequenced by value, and a total cost of ownership baseline you can hold any modernization programme against.
Book a Portfolio Assessment Most modernization programmes stall because the first decision was made on opinion rather than data. The assessment replaces that with a measured portfolio, a defensible cost baseline and a sequence your finance team can sign off.
Every application, integration, database and dependency catalogued through discovery tooling, configuration data and structured interviews with business and delivery owners. Shadow systems included, because they are usually where the risk sits.
Static analysis across the codebase to surface framework versions past support, duplicated logic, security exposure and change risk. Technical debt stops being a feeling and becomes a number per application.
Each application is placed on two axes: the business value it delivers and its technical fitness to keep delivering it. That grid is what separates a system worth investing in from one worth retiring.
Licences, infrastructure, support effort, incident load and release overhead consolidated into a true cost to run per application. Without this baseline no saving claimed later can be proven.
Retain, retire, rehost, replatform, refactor or replace, with the reasoning, effort estimate and risk recorded for each call. Decisions are documented so they survive a change of CIO or a procurement challenge.
A target state design covering cloud platform, data layer, microservices boundaries and API strategy, then a wave plan sequenced so early waves fund the later ones. Investment, timeline and dependencies are stated per wave.
These are the outcomes Teceze modernization programmes are built to deliver, and the assessment is where each one is quantified for your estate before any code is touched. Every target is measured against the baseline captured during discovery.
Reduction in total infrastructure footprint achievable through consolidation, right sizing and cloud optimisation.
Movement from quarterly release cycles towards automated daily code deployment.
Service level supported by microservice resilience, multi region failover and automated recovery.
Debt retired through framework modernization, code consolidation and retirement of redundant systems.
The assessment is the first two stages of the Teceze modernization lifecycle: deep discovery and assessment with total cost of ownership baseline, followed by target state design and pilot, core migration, decoupling of the monolith, then scale and handover.
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Four deliverables. A validated application inventory with dependencies mapped. A scorecard per application covering business value, technical fitness, risk and cost to run. A disposition recommendation for every application with the reasoning recorded. And a costed, wave based modernization roadmap with a target state architecture. All of it is handed over as your artefacts, in editable formats, with the scoring model documented so your architects can rerun it themselves next year.
Duration depends on portfolio size and how much documentation already exists. A focused assessment of a single business domain moves faster than an estate wide review, so we scope it against your actual application count during the first conversation rather than quoting a fixed number here. Your effort is concentrated in two places: access to source repositories, configuration and cost data, and a series of structured interviews with application and business owners. We do the analysis; your people validate the findings.
Both, and the combination is the point. Interviews tell you what an application is supposed to do and who depends on it. Code mining and static analysis tell you what it actually is: framework versions, dependency risk, duplicated logic, complexity and security exposure. Where the two disagree, that gap is itself a finding, and it is usually the one that changes the investment decision.
The decision follows the two scores. High business value with poor technical fitness is a candidate for refactor or replatform. Low value with high run cost is a retirement conversation. High value and healthy is left alone, because modernizing something that already works is spend without return. Cost, delivery capacity and risk appetite then shape the sequence. We present the model and the inputs so you can challenge any individual call rather than accept a verdict.
Cost is central to it. We consolidate licences, infrastructure consumption, support effort, incident volume and release overhead into a cost to run figure per application, which becomes the total cost of ownership baseline. That baseline matters commercially: without it, any saving a modernization programme claims later is an assertion rather than a measurement.
No. The assessment is a standalone engagement and the outputs are yours to take to any delivery partner, including your internal teams or an incumbent supplier. We think that is the right way to sell it. An assessment written to justify a predetermined programme is worth very little, and experienced procurement teams can spot one immediately.
Access is least privilege and role based, granted for named individuals and time boxed to the engagement, with activity logged. Analysis can run inside your own environment where policy or data residency requires it. Scope is agreed in writing before anything begins: what is accessed, where it is processed and what is explicitly excluded. Regulatory obligations including GDPR and sector specific controls are handled as contractual commitments.
Most technology leaders can name the worst two or three systems. What they usually cannot produce on request is the cost to run each one, the dependency chain that breaks if it is touched, and the order of work that delivers savings early enough to fund the rest. That is what gets a multi year programme approved. If you already hold that evidence, you do not need an assessment, and we will tell you so in the first call.
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Book a 45 minute session with our modernization architects. It carries no obligation, and you will leave with a view of where your portfolio risk and run cost are concentrated.