IT Discovery and Mapping Services
Comprehensive mapping for enhanced visibility, unlocking IT insights that support operations and facilitate migration and transformation activities
IT Discovery is a vital and complex process that must be undertaken before any cloud or data center migration, transformation, or consolidation effort. By mapping systems to business applications, CTM Technology Group provides essential visibility into the dependencies that must be considered during these critical projects. Our team will guide your organization through this process, utilizing both existing tools within your environment and industry-standard data collection tools. By the end of our engagement, you’ll have a complete understanding of the necessary details to begin migrating or consolidating systems and applications based on key dependencies.
Why Map Dependencies?
Application Dependency Mapping is crucial for several reasons. It provides an accurate snapshot of the IT environment, helping organizations identify opportunities and uncover risks that could impact migrations to data centers or cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. To minimize business disruptions during migration and consolidation efforts, IT organizations require a comprehensive and precise inventory of all systems, applications, and their interdependencies.
By identifying these relationships and grouping dependencies, applications can be effectively clustered for migration. Additionally, dependency mapping aids in developing capacity plans and roadmaps, ensuring more accurate Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) and supporting ongoing IT operations.
What is the Process?
CTM Technology Group employs our Application Mapping Methodology to carry out IT Discovery. Our process begins by documenting your organizational goals and defining the scope of the discovery effort. We then collect and review any existing documentation and inventories you may have, alongside performing physical inspections of your environment. Our team verifies the data you provide and collaborates closely with application and business teams to ensure accuracy. We distribute questionnaires, conduct application-centric workshops, and carry out follow-up interviews with subject-matter experts. When appropriate, we utilize automated discovery tools to gather additional data points or confirm existing information. Once all data is consolidated, we analyze it to identify system and application dependencies. This analysis is validated with your team, and we review emerging themes together.
At the conclusion of our engagement, CTM delivers a comprehensive IT Discovery summary report along with a roadmap and an executive presentation to encapsulate our findings and recommendations.
See CTM's Application Mapping Methodology for additional details on our process.
How Long Does IT Discovery Take?
The IT Discovery and Mapping process typically takes between six to fourteen weeks, depending on various factors that should be documented prior to engagement. When preparing for a discovery initiative, be ready to discuss your organizational goals and provide access to CMDBs and other inventories. Consider the availability of your subject-matter experts, as well as the number of applications, servers, and databases in your organization. Additionally, determine whether you will support the running of discovery tools.
For more information on our IT Discovery and Mapping Services, please contact us today. We are here to help you navigate this essential process effectively.
Application Mapping Methodology
CTM combines and analyzes your disparate inventories and additional data collected to deliver a cohesive inventory of systems, applications, and interdependency mapping.
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