Version 1 AI Accelerated Workload Modernization for Manufacturing

The challenge

Manufacturing organizations are more than ever wanting to improve digital innovation and optimize efficiencies in a competitive regulated landscape. Resiliency to supply chain disruption and the ability to adapt to volatility is key. To achieve these goals, businesses recognize the need for solutions that can accelerate the modernization of legacy code and systems. These legacy assets represent technical debt that hinders digital product development, efficient operation, effective security posture and robust adherence to regulations. Ultimately, these legacy workloads and platforms hurt business outcomes.

The solution

This offering combines our tried and tested expertise within the Manufacturing Sector and AWS Transform to significantly accelerate and de-risk the modernization of mission-critical IT services. It upholds service availability and adherence to security and compliance frameworks.

We offer two significant wins as part of this offering. Firstly, using AI-powered AWS Transform, Version 1 can power automation of code and infrastructure modernization, at scale and at speed. Legacy assets can be discovered, analyzed and transformed using the power of AI agents (trained on years of collected domain-specific experience), in a fraction of the time, reducing manual effort by up to 70%, across the following use cases.

• Upgrading of legacy Microsoft .NET applications to cross-platform versions, reducing OS licensing costs and increasing security
• Migration of on-prem VMWare workloads to AWS, through discovery, planning and transformation of compute, network and storage to native AWS services. Dedicated AWS migration services ensure that migration of workloads are safely tested and tracked according to organizational priorities
• COBOL mainframe modernization, to improve agility, cost-efficiency and resilience of mainframe applications as they are refactored and decomposed into modern Java

Secondly, we can further optimize these modernized assets and use our AWS experience to deliver well-architected AWS-native workloads. We can ensure modernized workloads are correctly designed, built, tested, deployed and monitored, consistent with a defence-in-depth security approach and adhering to stringent sector-specific regulatory frameworks and standards.

The result:

• AWS cloud-native infrastructure and applications are well-architected, scalable, resilient and observable
• Significantly reduced operating and licensing costs
• Mission-critical workloads can more easily take advantage of other cloud-native services including potential for optimized automation leveraging AI, ML and IoT
• Modernized workloads are significantly easier to maintain and adapt in response to changing regulations governing process, standards, data, security and sustainability

All this brings great potential to accelerate digital product innovation and improve technical integration to positively impact decision-making and business outcomes.

Why Version 1? Version 1 has extensive experience with Manufacturing organizations, delivering successfully migrated mission-critical workloads, within and to AWS, for enterprise-level clients, with zero downtime. These have directly contributed to strategic outcomes for our customers helping them reduce cost and risk, while delivering business benefits and opportunities to grow, scale and adapt to change.

We fully understand the importance of service availability and compliance to regulatory frameworks and the need to ensure client sovereignty over data, access, security and resiliency.