IBM Middleware Modernization AWS Accelerator
Build your strategic roadmap to IBM App Integration modernization
Our experts and SMEs take a deep dive into your integration objectives, architecture, and modernization goals — assessing your current IBM middleware to identify opportunities for optimization, cost savings, and performance.
A Focused Two-Day Engagement
Over two intensive days, our certified IBM middleware and AWS specialists work side-by-side with your team to assess your current integration landscape, define the target AWS architecture, and produce a concrete modernization roadmap — complete with migration waves, cost estimates, and risk mitigation plans you can act on immediately.
The Two-Day Workshop Structure
Day 1 establishes where you are and where you want to go. Day 2 turns that into an actionable AWS roadmap.
Assess & Align
Goal Setting
Define modernization objectives, success criteria, and business outcomes aligned to your integration strategy.
Architecture Whiteboarding
Map your current IBM middleware topology, integration flows, and dependencies on a shared canvas.
CI/CD Assessment
Evaluate existing delivery pipelines, automation maturity, and release cadence for your middleware estate.
Tech Stack Deep Dive
Review MQ, DataPower, API Connect, and ACE configurations, versions, and integration patterns in detail.
Assess Security Requirements
Identify compliance, governance, and security controls that must carry forward to the AWS target state.
Collaborative Discussions
Open dialogue with our SMEs to surface constraints, risks, and priorities across your teams.
Plan & Roadmap
AWS Cloud Readiness
Assess workload readiness for AWS — networking, landing zone, identity, and operational prerequisites.
Target Architecture
Design the future-state AWS architecture for your middleware, balancing rehost, replatform, and refactor.
Roadmap Development
Build a phased modernization roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and value-realization checkpoints.
Migration Planning
Define migration waves, cut-over strategy, rollback plans, and validation approach per workload.
Licensing & Cost Estimates
Model AWS consumption, licensing transitions, and TCO comparisons to quantify savings and investment.
Goals and Next Steps
Confirm outcomes, assign owners, and agree on the immediate next actions to kick off execution.
Workshop Focus Areas
Eight focus areas that ensure every dimension of your middleware modernization is examined.
Assess pain points & bottlenecks
Identify the integration friction, performance gaps, and operational pain slowing your middleware down.
AWS Architecture
Design a resilient, scalable AWS target architecture tailored to your middleware workloads.
Virtualization & containerization
Evaluate containerization and virtualization strategies to modernize how middleware is packaged and deployed.
Streamline integration processes
Simplify and standardize integration flows for faster delivery and lower maintenance overhead.
Roadmap & migration plan
Produce a clear, sequenced roadmap and migration plan that de-risks every wave of the journey.
DevOps Strategies
Define CI/CD, automation, and observability practices that keep middleware delivery fast and safe.
Security, compliance, governance
Embed security, compliance, and governance into the target state from day one.
Cost estimates & optimization
Quantify cloud economics and identify right-sizing and optimization levers for ongoing savings.
Workshop Benefits
What your team takes away from the two-day engagement.
Meet modernization goals faster
A structured, expert-led workshop compresses weeks of analysis into two focused days of decisive planning.
Tailored migration strategies
Walk away with rehost, replatform, and refactor recommendations calibrated to your specific workloads.
Optimized resource allocation
Right-size people, infrastructure, and budget against the workloads that deliver the most value.
Clearer project vision
Align stakeholders around a shared target architecture, roadmap, and set of measurable outcomes.
Risk identification & mitigation
Surface technical, operational, and compliance risks early — with concrete mitigation plans attached.
Request a Workshop
Tell us about your organization and modernization challenges. Our workshop team will reach out to schedule your two-day engagement.
workshop@ipath.io