Strategic road map provides software company with path to successful technology modernization
Learn how a government accounting software company benefited from a strategic road map to help modernize their technology infrastructure and meet future state needs.
Client background
The client is an accounting software company with approximately 100 employees that provides services to municipal governments across the country.
The business challenge
The client’s current technology infrastructure and operating model were becoming outdated and needed to be upgraded to become more efficient. They wanted a long-term, sustainable future state technology platform that would serve their clients and needed assistance building a strategy to modernize their applications, data and cloud technologies.
Strategy and solution
Baker Tilly performed a comprehensive current state assessment to identify existing opportunities and challenges, assess user needs and evaluate compliance and performance. To help the client evolve their operating model, we offered different modernization options to create a more sustainable form and to better meet their future state needs. These options ranged from a ground-up rebuild, hybrid approach, or to refactor their current technology and code base.
Using Microsoft Azure’s cloud native tool set to create the reference architecture, our team conducted a series of assessments and developed several reports.
This process included:
- Change management considerations
- Risk/regulatory and compliance assessment
- Performance and scalability report
- Cost benefit analysis report
- Customer migration recommendations
- Employee sentiment analysis
- Application assessment report
- Application inventory report
- User needs analysis report
These assessments and analyses informed the design of a strategic road map to help the client achieve a successful path to modernization. Our recommendations outlined the best technology stack options, building a reference architecture, budgeting, planning and setting the stage for transformation.
The next steps for the client include implementing our recommendations and following the road map to modernization to help ensure long-term growth and business sustainability.