Assignment # 05

Of
Introduction to Computing
Submitted to:
Sir Harris Masood

Submitted By:
AMIR HAMZA

1st Semester
Section: A
Reg. No: UW-17-EE-BSC-004

Department of Electrical Engineering

Wah Engineering College
University Of Wah
Contents
Modernization of Information Technology................................................................................2
Information Technology.........................................................................................................2
Modernization of Information Technology............................................................................2
Executive Summary................................................................................................................2
It’s a perfect storm. How are you doing?...............................................................................2
Essential to achieving a new economics of IT.......................................................................2
Getting there from here..........................................................................................................2
The building blocks of IT modernization...............................................................................3
Achieving infrastructure modernization.................................................................................3
Achieving workplace modernization......................................................................................4
The need for a holistic approach to modernization................................................................4
Benefits of IT Modernization.....................................................................................................5
Easy Access to information:...................................................................................................5
Encourages innovation and creativity:...................................................................................5
Improved communication:......................................................................................................5
The convenience of Traveling:...............................................................................................5
Improved housing and lifestyle:.............................................................................................5
Improved Entertainment:........................................................................................................6
Efficiency and Productivity:...................................................................................................6
Convenience in Education:.....................................................................................................6
Social Networking:.................................................................................................................6
Changed the health industry:..................................................................................................6
Resources...................................................................................................................................6

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Modernization of Information Technology
Information Technology

”The combination of Computer technology and Communication Technology is called

Information Technology”.

Modernization of Information Technology

“Modernization of Information Technology is the continuous evolution of an organization's
existing application and infrastructure software, with the goal of aligning IT (Information
Technology) with the organization's ever-shifting business strategies”.

Executive Summary
Enterprises are striving to achieve what Avanade calls the “New Economics of IT” to meet
unprecedented business demands and tame technology disruptions. To do so, businesses must
modernize the applications, infrastructure and workplace components of their IT
environments, as they make the journey from legacy or conventional IT to modernized,
future-ready IT. Each journey component can impact the others, and managing the
complexity, timing and integration of modernization efforts is crucial. For successful
companies, the result is a digital transformation that maximizes efficiency, increase agility
and gives the freedom to innovate.

It’s a perfect storm. How are you doing?

Anyone in IT hears it all the time. Sales wants greater productivity Business leaders want
competitive advantage. And they’re all looking to IT leadership to provide it. As if the non-
stop demands weren’t enough, technology disruption is at unprecedented levels, threatening
today’s businesses and creating opportunities for tomorrow’s.
CEOs have their own demands, too. They expect 41% of revenue to be digital by 2020. But
51% of CIOs say they can’t respond to digital opportunities in a timely way. They need to do
so – and fast.

Essential to achieving a new economics of IT

Legacy environments were never designed to meet the demands of today’s stakeholders.
They don’t capitalize on the new technologies that are disrupting the business environment.
Innovation that the digital business requires. That means IT modernization is essential for any
company that hopes to transform itself into a digital business.

Getting there from here

The type of journey you take to a modernized IT environment depends on factors including
what your environment looks like today and what challenges you need to confront in order to
modernize.
Most companies start out from a legacy or conventional IT that adds risk and cost to the
business - such as unsupported or non-strategic hardware or software. The conventional IT
environment typically includes some legacy business agility – and even some components for
innovation. The modernized IT environment is the destination for the company seeking to
implement a digital transformation. Its technologies, tools and approaches not only add value
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to the business, but also empower innovation to meet the many demands of stakeholders and
to help the company thrive in an increasingly competitive and resource-challenged
environment.

The building blocks of IT modernization

IT modernization is a holistic process that touches
on every aspect of the IT environment. But that
can be an enormous and intimidating prospect, so
let’s break it down into three manageable
components that every company should consider:
application, infrastructure and workplace
modernization.
Application modernization – For your
applications to perform applications that are
quickly assembled, delivered as-a-service, highly
reliable, and easy to maintain and update.
Application modernization case in point
Challenge: Global tech giant had one year to
move 2,000 applications to the cloud.
Solution: Avanade moved the apps to Azure
IaaS using our proven industrialized tools and
processes within our Cloud Application
Studios.
Results: Tight timeline met; 8,000 servers
decommissioned; app rationalization begun.

Infrastructure modernization – Modernized applications typically drive the modernization

of the infrastructure. Achieving the speed, scalability and reliability that you want from your
applications depends on modernizing legacy infrastructure into flexible, hybrid and
automated environments.

Workplace modernization – Your transition to a digital business will increasingly demand

that you empower employees with
connected collaboration tools to work
smarter. Modernizing your truly digital
workplace that makes empowerment
possible. Once you update or replace the
workplace tools, you can then proceed to
transform the business processes that use
them.
10% lower support costs with SaaS2 50%
faster app time to market with PaaS33.
Infrastructure modernization case in point
Challenge: Competitive pressure compelled media
company’s transformation to a digital business.
Solution: Avanade Cloud Infrastructure
Transformation allows platform to support digital.
Results: Use cases are delivering performance
improvements of up to four times the on-premises
environment and are delivering increased agility and
lower costs to the business.

Achieving infrastructure
modernization
Like application modernization, the journey to infrastructure which loses business value as
demands on it increase. As the infrastructure is refreshed on premises with optimized
hardware
and virtualization, the environment evolves to what we’ve called conventional infrastructure.
For the enterprise that adopts the cloud, infrastructure is quickly modernized and business
value quickly grows. Cloud infrastructure systems move to the cloud, enabling connected
ecosystems with business partners. A seamless hybrid infrastructure emerges, aided by
processes and teams that leverage DevOps to further forge a single, transparent unit. As the
infrastructure is further modernized, IT teams use infrastructure as code, automated
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provisioning, monitoring and self-healing – sending business value soaring. The journey to
infrastructure modernization is real and happening now. About 80% of IT organizations are
set to commit to hybrid cloud by 20175. And
60% of enterprises use DevOps or plan to do so Workplace Modernization Case in Point
within two years. Challenge: Which demoralized employees.
Deployment times drop from week to hours7 Solution: Avanade Desktop Modernization and UCC
80% of enterprises will adopt hybrid cloud by Transformation provide employees with a modern
workplace Skype for Business.
20175 60% of enterprises use DevOps or will
Results: Employees gained real-time communication
within two years. with a its journey to workplace modernization
quickly; employees are empowered and motivated
Achieving workplace modernization with 21st century tools.
In the legacy environment, an outdated
platform or operating system limits the use of
modern applications and constrains modern
workstyles.
In a conventional workplace environment, typically organizations have introduced various
collaboration technologies. Though, at this collaboration are often disparate, and so business
agility is limited. As the workplace is further modernized, business and collaboration
applications are fully integrated and are aligned with devices, with mobile versions ready and
mobile workers fully enabled. Workers gain a seamless experience across platforms and
applications, and self-service portals are in place for most user requirements, such as
application access. The workplace environment is dynamic and immersive, and the
foundations are set to take advantage of the Digital Workplace.
Workplace modernization is well underway. By 2020, 60% of system capabilities from the
cloud, according to Gartner8. 365 is 187%, according to Forrester.

The need for a holistic approach to modernization

While breaking down IT modernization into these three major areas is useful for clarity, they
should be thought of holistically to multiply the effect of IT modernization. For example, a
journey in which each of the three modernization components supports the others can speed
the process, enabling the enterprise to jump over some intermediate steps.
The holistic approach also requires the business to think about the order in which component
journeys are planned and implemented. For example, infrastructure exists to support
applications, not the other way around, so the application modernization should be planned
first – but implemented second.

Benefits of IT Modernization
Following are some Benefits of Information Technology Modernization:

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1. Easy Access to information:
It has become very easy to get access to relevant information at any time anywhere. This has
been possible because of modern technologies like broadband internet.  Lots of data is being
published and indexed online, sites like Wikipedia and Youtube have great original content
which can be used in research or entertainment.  Information is power and those who find
information and use it well always succeed.  With smart gadgets like the iPad, iPhone, galaxy
tablet, users can easily have access to information through these smart gadgets because they
use the internet. So a user on a train can easily read breaking news while traveling, they can
also buy and sell stocks while in the bedroom using the internet. These smart gadgets make it
easy to access the internet and this simplifies the way we get information.

2. Encourages innovation and creativity:

Since technology is challenging, it sparks the brain to work to its full potential.  In the past, it
used to be very difficult to start a business, one had to have lots of capital and they even had
limited access to business information. Today, it is very easy to start a business while at
home. Let’s look at companies like Etsy.com which enable creative people to sell their works
online, this encourages creativity. Another good example is kickstarter.com which helps
creative people get funds for their projects through crowd funding. On this platform, creative
developers post projects seeking funding from the community, this helps them generate lots
of cash for their good ideas which latter leads to the creation of new Jobs.  The other creative
works which have been facilitated by modern technology include  Google, Apple, Facebook,
Microsoft, Amazon,  etc.

3. Improved communication:
Communication is like water to life. We cannot develop without communication.  Modern
technology has blessed us with advanced communication technology tools. These can include
e-fax machines, electronic mail, mobile phones, video conferencing, instant text messaging
applications, social networking applications. All these modern communication technology
tools have simplified the way humans and businesses communicate.  I can easily talk to my
relative overseas using a mobile phone or video chatting services like Skype.

4. The convenience of Traveling:

Modern transportation technology makes it very easy to travel long distances.  Transport is a
very important both in our lives and in the business world.  Transportation technology has
evolved with years. In the past, it used to be slow and expensive to move long distances.
Nowadays, I can cover a 10 miles distance within a few minutes or hours  using electric trains
or airplanes.

5. Improved housing and lifestyle:

This is another great way how modern technology has simplified our lives. If you compare
the type of housing we used to have in 1900 and the architecture of houses today, the
difference is very big. New architectural technology has improved the types of housed we
build nowadays.   People with money can afford town floating housed   and glass homes.
Most of the items in our house are now automated, for example, doors use fingerprints which
guarantee security.  Remote webcams which you can use to monitor what goes on at your
home.

6. Improved Entertainment:
Modern technology has played a big role in changing the entertainment industry.  Home
entertainment has improved with the invention of video games and advance music and visual
systems like smart televisions which can connect live to the internet so that a user can share
what they’re watching with friends. Easy access and storage of music, services like iTunes
allow users to purchase and download music on their iPods at a small cost, this is a win – win
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situation for both musicians and the users. Because musicians can easily sell their music via
iTunes and the user can also have a wide selection of which music to buy without having
troubles of going to a physical music store.

7. Efficiency and Productivity:

Modern technology has helped businesses increase production. Humans are slow and
sometimes they fail to deliver on time. So many businesses have integrated modern
technology in their production line, most of the hard work has become so simple and the
results are better than those of humans. Let’s look at a farmer who uses modern technology
right from the day of preparing the farmland to the day of harvesting. They save a lot of time
and money during this process.

8. Convenience in Education:
Learning is a process and it is part of our daily lives. Modern technology has made it simple
for students to learn from anywhere through online education and mobile education.  Also,
students now use modern technology in classrooms to learn better. For example, students use
iPads to share visual lessons and examples with peers in the classroom. This has made
learning more convenient and fan. Also new modern educational technologies support
individual learning which gives a chance to students to learn on their own with no need of
tutors.

9. Social Networking:
Modern technology has made it simple to discover our old friends and also discover new
people to network with. This is a benefit to both individuals and businesses. Many businesses
have embraced the social networking technology to interact with their customers.  Users of
social networks can share information with friends, live chat with them and interact in all
sorts of ways.

10. Changed the health industry:

Nowadays most hospitals have implemented modern technology in surgical rooms, this has
reduced on mistakes made by doctors. Humans can easily make mistakes because of work
overload and stress factors. Also, the business community has developed health applications
which can enable us to monitor our health and weight. These applications can be used on
mobile phones, so users can have them at any time of the day.

Resources
i. https://www.avanade.com
ii. https://www.useoftechnology.com

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