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On October 28th, 2021, Juliet Helms (Solution Assessment Lead, Microsoft) and Dan Fluet (VP Sales, Tallan) presented a webinar on the App Innovate Solution Assessment and how it benefits businesses and organizations of all types. This virtual presentation covered:
- What the App Innovate engagement is, and why it matters.
- The process and what Microsoft, Tallan, and your teams should bring to the table.
- The basic deliverables you can expect, like a customized planning session, an architectural design session, and a roadmap of your modernization plan.
- Tallan’s real-world success stories.
An Introduction to App Innovate
Legacy systems that use antiquated applications often struggle to match today’s corporate objectives. Tallan and Microsoft work in partnership to offer App Innovate as a consultation service to help companies move to the cloud or update existing applications. As part of Microsoft’s Solution Assessment program, App Innovate’s in-depth analysis of your most useful apps will set your team up with a complete architectural design and migration roadmap!
Tallan will evaluate up to 5 of your applications, VM, and database information to ensure that our recommendations meet the needs of your users, the skills of your team, and the goals of your business…
What to Expect
Chats with Key Players
Part of the Tallan process is partnership. Understanding the ‘why’ and ensuring goal alignment before we dive into anything, is paramount to the success of any engagement.
App Portfolio Analysis
Tallan will evaluate up to 5 of your applications, VM, and database information to ensure that our recommendations meet the needs of your users, the skills of your team, and the goals of your business.
Modernization Planning
Tallan experts will present Platform as a Service (PaaS) options for migrating and modernizing the assessed applications. The preferred recommendation, based on your goals, will be architected and planned to provide you with actionable next steps.
Education & Options
Education and knowledge share about Tallan tools, strategy, and process are integral to a meaningful endeavor. This ensures that post-assessment, your modernization options are more meaningful.
Final Roadmap Summary & Delivery
As a final deliverable, Tallan presents an Executive Summary of the data we discovered with recommendations on the best way to modernize. Cost estimates are always included, so you can consider what’s best for your budget.
How App Innovate has Helped Real Businesses Modernize
The benefits of App Innovate apply to a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Contact Tallan today to see how this engagement can work for your team.
An Industry Leading Steel Reduction Company
A global leader of iron and steel reduction technology, specializing in clean and reliable ironmaking solutions for steelmakers needed to operationalize their current Azure environment under the guidance of an experienced systems integration partner. Tallan assessed the current cloud footprint to establish proper governance, ensure maximum optimization, alignment with best practices, and allow easy scalability for future migration and modernization efforts. Learn more.
Lovesac
This unique luxury furniture maker is known for its enormous beanbag chairs and infinitely configurable sectionals. Leadership sought to boost brand awareness, and direct-to-consumer sales through a data analysis initiative focused on the customer journey. Tallan’s team collaborated with this organization’s leadership to develop a strategy and subsequent roadmap, prioritized by business value. In the first year using data-driven decision making, gross profits rose by nearly 59%. Learn more.
Valassis
Valassis, an international media and marketing corporation, hired Tallan to develop digital marketing style chatbots to promote their client’s brands through new channels. One of their customers, an Automotive Dealership, was looking to reach customers in a new and innovative way and a Facebook chatbot was the answer. The chatbot allows shoppers to search the dealership’s inventory, select their vehicle, and begin the financing approval process by collecting the customer’s credit score. Learn more.
* Keep in Mind – App Innovate is funded by Microsoft! Taking advantage of this Solution Assessment might give you the chance to free up $20,000 of your budget or go bigger with your transformation plans. Click here to watch the full video recap, or learn more about the benefits of App Innovate.
Tallan has a full calendar of virtual events ahead, including a Cloud Security Workshop on November 17th and our Hartford Power BI group on November 18th. Click here to view our current offerings!