Large enterprises usually have more than 1,000 systems running. Even smaller organisations may have hundreds of applications in their public cloud spaces or on their servers. In this world of IT systems, application migrations are common for the following reasons:
- At some point, software reaches its end of life and is not supported anymore by its vendor. For example, consider an application that uses a discontinued technology stack. The entire application needs to be replaced but the data must be stored and re-used.
- New functionality or capabilities are required which the current software cannot deliver. For example, a system developed in-house that cannot offer a modern web user interface and must be replaced with modern off-the-shelf software, also involving data transfer from the old system to the new one.
- The number of individual IT systems is too high and requires consolidation. For example, an organisation wants to merge various source code repository servers from different…