Application migration system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018107466-A1
Application number	US-201715725477-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 5, 2017
Priority date	Oct 14, 2016
Publication date	Apr 19, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

An application-centric modernization and migration (AMM) architecture delivers AMM as a service to enterprises to automate migrating applications to new environments. In this regard, the architecture implements data migration functionality in concert with application code migration, environment provisioning, and post-migration configuration. The joint migration of application data and application code effectively provides a complete migration of an application. The architecture may also define and deliver a GUI portal through which an application owner provides application-specific metadata to drive the AMM.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
defining an application service center interface; delivering the application service center interface through a communication interface to an application owner; registering a specific application through the application service center interface, including:
identifying an application database required for execution of the specific application;
assigning the specific application to an application-specific metadata model; and
adding, into the application-specific metadata model, application database identification metadata and application database location metadata characterizing the application database; and
initiating migration of the specific application through the application service center interface, including:
requesting deployment of a target environment for the specific application;
recognizing that the application database is required for execution of the specific application; and
controlling migration of the application database into the target environment; and
controlling migration of the specific application into the target environment.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, through the application service center interface, an identification of the target environment.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying a source environment in which the specific application currently runs; and adding, into the application-specific metadata model, source environment metadata that characterizes the source environment in which the specific application currently runs.

4 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
executing mapping rules to determine the target environment from the source environment.

5 . The method of claim 3 , where:
the source environment is a first virtualized environment; and the target environment is a second virtualized environment.

6 . The method of claim 3 , where:
the source environment is a non-virtualized environment; and the target environment is a virtualized environment.

7 . The method of claim 1 , where:
controlling migration comprises issuing provisioning instructions for instantiating the application database in the target environment.

8 . The method of claim 1 , where:
controlling migration comprises issuing provisioning instructions for instantiating the application database into the target environment as a virtualized application database.

9 . The method of claim 1 , where:
controlling migration comprises identifying specific data fields in the application database as masked data fields; and preventing data entries in the masked data fields from appearing in the application database in the target environment.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
executing post-migration configuration on the specific application in the target environment.

11 . The method of claim 10 , where:
executing comprises: reconfiguring the specific application to access the application database in the target environment.

12 . A system comprising:
machine interface circuitry defining an application service center interface; a communication interface configured to deliver the application service center interface to an application owner; and application configuration circuitry configured to:
register a specific application through the application service center interface by:
identifying an application database required for execution of the specific application;
assigning the specific application to an application-specific metadata model; and
adding, into the application-specific metadata model, application database identification metadata and application database location metadata characterizing the application database;

initiate migration of the specific application through the application service center interface by:
requesting deployment of a target environment for the specific application;
recognizing that the specific application relies on the application database during execution of the specific application; and
controlling migration of the application database into the target environment; and
controlling migration of the specific application into the target environment.

13 . The system of claim 12 , where:
the application-specific metadata model further comprises an identification of the target environment received through the application service center interface.

14 . The system of claim 12 , where:
the application-specific metadata model further comprises source environment metadata that characterizes a source environment in which the specific application currently runs.

15 . The system of claim 14 , further comprising:
mapping rules configured to determine the target environment from the source environment.

16 . The system of claim 12 , where:
the application configuration circuitry is configured to issue provisioning instructions for instantiating the application database in the target environment.

17 . The system of claim 12 , where:
the application configuration circuitry is configured to issue provisioning instructions for instantiating the application database into the target environment as a virtualized application database.

18 . The system of claim 12 , further comprising:
masked data field identifiers that identifying specific data fields in the application database as masked data fields; and where: the application configuration circuitry is configured to prevent data entries in the masked data fields from appearing in the application database in the target environment.

19 . A system comprising:
machine interface circuitry defining an application service center interface as a set of graphical user interfaces; a communication interface configured to deliver the application service center interface to an application owner; and application configuration circuitry configured to:
control application migration of a specific application through the application service center interface by:
identifying an application database required for execution of the specific application;
assigning the specific application to an application-specific metadata model;
adding, into the application-specific metadata model, application database location metadata characterizing the application database; and
adding, into the application-specific metadata model, source environment metadata that characterizes a source environment in which the specific application currently runs; and

initiate migration of the specific application through the application service center interface by:
deriving a target environment for the specific application from the source environment metadata;
requesting deployment of the target environment for the specific application;
recognizing that the specific application relies on the application database for its functionality; and
controlling a joint migration of the application database and the specific application into the target environment.

20 . The system of claim 19 , where:
the application configuration circuitry is further configured to: executing a post-migration configuration on the specific application in the target environment, including configuring the specific application to access the application database in the target environment.

Assignees

• Accenture Global Solutions Ltd

Inventors

• Rihani Raed Zahi
• Hellstrom Stefan C
• Brown Christopher Ray
• Porta Ashley N
• Sanders Jonovan Jerome
• Vasquez Michael Alexander
• Mariano Christopher Michael

Classifications

• G06F8/64

  Retargetable · CPC title

• G06F9/4856 Primary

  resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration (G06F9/5088 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F8/60 Primary

  Software deployment · CPC title