Software Assessment Identifies New Opportunities for US Airline
Identifying opportunity through modernisation
The first step of any modernisation project must be a thorough and comprehensive assessment of existing systems. Traditional software assessments can be time-consuming and often rely on use of documents and interviews to review code quality. However, the airline needed a reliable, timely assessment that would provide insights based on accurate data offering actionable recommendations.
To achieve this, our teams ran a technical due diligence assessment using our enterprise transformation process, formerly known as Chronos. This tool-based approach is a comprehensive, customisable service that uncovers traits and risks of large-scale software systems.
The process follows four key steps:
- Step 1: A rigorous and highly automated analysis to identify and validate existing functionality and data against business and technical requirements, identifying gaps and challenges.
- Step 2: Dependency mapping software find and analyses the impact of changes in applications and infrastructure across the entire ecosystem.
- Step 3: Patented technology builds dependency maps, user authority profile mapping, predictive analysis, code and test case generation, reducing the significant risks and speeding up the modernisation timeline.
- Step 4: Complete infrastructure optics provide end-to-end evaluations of entire systems.
Leveraging outcomes for success
The assessment evaluated key indicators such as scalability, code quality and security. Our teams delivered four main outcomes to help the airline determine the path forward.
Validate key questions and identify gaps
We provided an independent and objective technical view of extensibility, scalability, resilience and structural issues in the system.
Map in-flight initiatives and recommend solutions
Our teams then offered proposals for resolving each of the identified immediate needs. For each, its impact on the roadmap to the future state was also understood.
Evaluate future state architecture options
By understanding the long-term requirements for the system, the airline could review our proposals for future-state architecture options that can credibly meet those requirements with a supporting release and roll out strategy.
Validate the roadmap
We then reviewed the existing architectural and feature development roadmap and, based on business objectives, from the current state to the future state, offered as many of the short-term problem resolutions as possible, providing a roadmap suitable for planning, prioritisation and investment.
Following a successful assessment, we then mapped a plan to help the client begin its modernisation project, identifying opportunities and proposing projects to move forward.
Whether the client chose to build in house or incrementally update the legacy system, we ensured the airline was armed with a comprehensive understanding of its systems and was empowered to make critical decisions about its future infrastructure and modernisation project.
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