Modernizing your applications with IBM Application Modernization Accelerator or IBM Transformation Advisor

You can use IBM Application Modernization Accelerator or IBM Transformation Advisor to modernize your applications and move them to the cloud. IBM Application Modernization Accelerator and IBM Transformation Advisor determine the complexity of your applications, identifies needed application changes, estimates the development cost for a move to the cloud, recommends the best target environment, and generates reports and deployment artifacts that can help you update applications and move them to the target environment.

IBM Application Modernization Accelerator and IBM Transformation Advisor is available in IBM Cloud Pak® for Applications, WebSphere Hybrid Edition, and other bundles containing WebSphere Application Server. For more information, see Licenses under which you have entitlement to use Transformation Advisor and the Cloud Pak for Applications documentation or the WebSphere Hybrid Edition documentation.

For information about IBM Application Modernization Accelerator procedures for installation and use, see the Application Modernization Accelerator documentation.

For information about IBM Transformation Advisor procedures for installation and use, see the Transformation Advisor documentation.

Procedure

  1. Install the product.
  2. Modernize and optimize your Java™ EE application.
  3. View the migration plan and deploy your application to the target environment.

Example

The following example shows analysis results for sample enterprise application files in a WebSphere® Application Server product. For applications with Simple complexity, you can use the migration plan and deploy them to a cloud without code changes. Applications with Complex or Moderate complexity require code changes before deployment to a cloud.

Transformation Advisor collection that shows analysis results