Presented during the Open Source Conference 2012, organized by Accenture and Redhat on December 14th 2012. This presentation discusses the large enterprise application debt. By Adam Burden, Executive Director Cloud Application & Platform Services, Accenture

1. HOW A 2000-YEAR-OLD KNOT
UNTANGLES LEGACY
Adam Burden
Global Managing Director, Emerging Technology Innovation
Accenture LLP
December 14, 2012

2. Accenture
• 257,000+ people, serving clients in over 120 countries
• 40,000+ Java developers
• Serve 92 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than
three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500

3. Adam Burden
• 20 years with Accenture
• Master Technology Architect
• Career of Client Delivery
• Leadership Roles
 Modernization
 Cloud Applications
“I did that and I’m not proud of it”

4. Large Enterprise Application Debt
• More than 1000 applications
• Impediment to business agility
• 1 in 3 redundant or unused
• Custom legacy especially problematic
• Too expensive to rip & replace
• Can’t afford not to act

9. Application Portfolio Transformation
• Tools you likely already have
• Adoption of Open Source catalyst
• Themes of agility and cost reduction
• Getting started

10. Rationalize & Transform
• Build momentum early
• Engage & align business
• “Get Healthy” & “Stay Healthy”
• Assign dispositions
 Replace
A failure to plan is a plan to fail.  Retire
 Consolidate
 Remediate
 Replatform
 Migrate

11. Transformation in Practice
• Apply innovation
• Automate for quality
• Resist change & transform
Migration
• Extract & transform
• Not line-by-line
• Target PaaS architectures in future
Replatform at Scale
• Impact & remediation automation
• Proven rules
• Accelerate testing

12. Begin the Transformation
• Untangle your Gordian Knot of applications
• Leverage Open Source
• Apply innovation and bold thinking