Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) Reviews & Product Details

Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) helps organizations rapidly assess, plan, and modernize their existing applications to a more modern runtime environment that aligns with your application strategy. These destinations can include: 1. Enterprise Application Service for Java (EASeJ)- Fully managed cloud SaaS environment 2. WebSphere Liberty- Enterprise-grade, cloud-native Java runtime 3. Modernized Runtime Extension (MoRE) - Liberty Administered from WebSphere Features: Discovery: AMA analyzes your existing application estate and enables you to visualize connected databases, queues, and dependencies. Explore and assess the complexity, cost, and changes required to move to your desired target destination runtime environment. Planning: From the Discovery phase, you can plan and prioritize key applications, dependencies, and common code that needs updating to run on the selected destination runtime. Create groups so applications with different needs can reach different destinations. Gain insights into the estimated effort for resolving migration issues and assessments for different modernization options. Generate the migration plan and execute the plan in the next step. Execute: Use the AMA Dev Tools or watsonx Code Assistant (wCA), in your favorite IDE, to load the generated migration plan to help with configuration and deployment changes. The plan bundle includes files tailored to each application along with recipes that automate the changes to your source code and configuration files, allowing them to work on the destination runtime environment.