Automatically Manage your Application Compatibility with ChangeBASE AOK

ChangeBASE AOK is a software company that has developed a suite of automated, highly innovative applications that hugely improve the time, quality, consistency and cost of the test, remediation and ongoing management challenges that companies face as they begin the process of migrating their applications from one Operating System or deployment environment to another.

Generally, a typical migration process will take anything from 6 months to two years to complete for a large organisation with between 1000-8000 applications. That is because the processes involved have to be rigorous and thorough and many of the activities are managed manually. This onerous process is therefore very complex, very time consuming and very costly.

Overall, the work is divided into a number of specific procedures, each requiring a particular skill set or methodology that will need to be followed. The Microsoft diagram below shows the extent of the process and the procedures within it. The two categories that ChangeBASE AOK plays in are highlighted in red. These are traditionally, manual, the most labour intensive and highly skilled.

Typical migration process as defined by Microsoft

ChangeBASE AOK brings automation to these two areas of the migration process. It is able to automatically test for compatibility issues and automatically remediate the vast majority of issues it reports. It is the only technology with this capability. It can typically save thousands of man days of effort over a standard approach to compatibility testing and remediation.

The AOK toolset is architected such that when any new operating system or technology is launched it is a simple matter of updating the rules via new plugins which can automatically be downloaded from the central servers.