ACE FACTORY

AN APPLICATION CLOUD ENABLEMENT SOLUTION

THE CHALLENGE
The business demands additional functionality, new processes, shorter cycles and greater efficiencies. But youre strapped just keeping current applications up and running; hindering your ability to respond quickly to the market. applies industrialized processes to speed transformation and minimize errors. It also tests each application to ensure it performs in the new cloud environment.

HOW IT WORKS
ACE Factory specializes in refactoring and rebuilding applications to be cloud aware and enabling them to move from enterprise data centers to cloud application platforms, thus taking advantage of the scalability, performance, flexibility and significantly lower total cost of ownership of these Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. This transformation is done through an industrialized and proven approach, with assembly lines targeting a range of source-target combinations, including: Java to Spring on vFabricTM platform Legacy/COBOL and Java to Force.com platform Microsoft .NET to AzureTM platform In addition, ACE Factory provides testing and validation of already virtualized applications in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments.

INDUSTRIALIZED SERVICE FOR REFACTORING AND REBUILDING LEGACY, CUSTOM APPLICATIONS

Predictable cost Highly automated Leverage full cloud benefits

You know you could re-factor key applications to take advantage of the cloud, but youre not sure how to proceed. You dont have extra development budget. You cant afford to break applications now in production. And you needed to act yesterday. What do you do?

THE SOLUTION
CSCs ACE Factory provides a fast, predictable and economical path to the cloud. ACE Factory is a key component of CSCs ACE (Application Cloud Enablement) solution, CSCs blueprint for accelerating the migration of legacy applications to the cloud, and part of CSCs Trusted Cloud solution. ACE Factory is an industrialized service that quickly transforms legacy, custom applications to run in the cloud. It assesses each application to identify the optimal treatment (re-factor or rebuild), and

KEY BENEFITS
Reduces transformational upgrade, migration and validation costs rotects against P the unknowns of legacy application transformation Improves cost transparency and predictability ccelerates time-toA value in realizing benefits of cloudcomputing

Standardized factory methodology and process automation speeding transformation while slashing risk and cost.

ACE FACTORY
AN APPLICATION CLOUD ENABLEMENT SOLUTION

CSC CLOUD SERVICES AT A GLANCE

Application Cloud Enablement - CSCs blueprint for accelerating the migration of legacy applications to the cloud CloudLab Run your dev and test on the CSC shared cloud CloudCompute Production on the CSC shared cloud BizCloud Private cloud where performance and security are paramount (on site or CSC hosted) Storage as a Service Store, Recover and Archive services Cloud consultancy Complete cloud roadmap or physical to virtual migration

In all cases, ACE Factory applies industrialized processes and tools best of breed, highly automated, repeatable and proven. With CSCs industrialized solution, transformation time is slashed and errors are minimized, giving you more valuable business function sooner and at lower cost.

FEATURES & CAPABILITIES

ACE Factory utilizes the best treatment approach for your specific source technologies and target architecture. Our unique approach to application cloud enablement includes industrializing the service through the use of best-of-breed transformational tools integrated and proven for specific source/target pairs. Additionally, ACE Factory can test/validate your already virtualized application on an IaaS platform with specialized regression tests tuned to the target environment. ACE Factory is a key component of CSCs ACE suite of services and Trusted Cloud service lines, which together provide the strategy, infrastructure, application and organizational change capabilities necessary for enterprises to capitalize on the business benefits of cloud.

WHO USES ACE FACTORY?

Enterprises Making decisions on modernizing their applications and business processes Desiring the benefits of scale and elasticity of cloud computing Experiencing change, such as a merger, acquisition, divestiture, or expansion to new location IT Organizations IT Organizations Experiencing high and unpredictable application management costs Burdened with a large, heterogeneous, aging, and/or complex application estate that mires resources and spending in maintenance tasks Burdened with significant IT pain and investment to support legacy custom and mainframe applications

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With more than 50 years of system integration experience, we understand the enterprise. Customer-centric and platform independent, we help you select the best technology. Security is an integral component of all our offerings, processes and systems. Our high level of support helps you minimize risks.
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