App modernization

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Contoso, Ltd. is a new company providing a full range of long-term insurance services to help people who are underinsured. Struggling to cope with rapid growth, the company founders are looking for improved technological capabilities, including automated document forwarding from brokers, secure access for brokers to Contoso, Ltd., access to policy information, and ready policy retrieval for a dispersed workforce.

Contoso Insurance also wants to make its policyholder system available to its employees and brokers via web and mobile applications without requiring VPN. Additionally, they want to store policies in cloud storage for retrieval via the web and mobile applications. Contoso would like to migrate its SQL Server-based database to SQL Database.

Target audience

  • Application developer

Abstract

Workshop

In this workshop, you will gain a better understanding on the steps involved in modernizing legacy on-premises applications and infrastructure by leveraging cloud services, while adding a mix of web and mobile services, all secured using Azure Active Directory.

At the end of this workshop, you will be better able to design a modernization plan for organizations looking to move services from on-premises to the cloud.

Whiteboard design session

In this whiteboard design session, you will work with a group to design a solution for modernizing legacy on-premises applications and infrastructure by leveraging cloud services, while adding a mix of web and mobile services, all secured using Azure Active Directory.

At the end of this whiteboard design session, you will be better able to design a modernization plan for organizations looking to move services from on-premises to the cloud.

Hands-on lab

In this hands-on lab, you will implement the steps to modernize legacy on-premises applications and infrastructure by leveraging cloud services, while adding a mix of web and mobile services, all secured using Azure Active Directory.

At the end of this hands-on lab, you will be better able to build solutions for modernizing legacy on-premises applications and infrastructure using cloud services, and implement a mix of web and mobile services secured by Azure Active Directory.

Azure services and related products

  • Xamarin
  • Web APIs
  • PowerApps
  • Flow
  • Azure Storage
  • Azure Search
  • Azure Redis
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Active Directory
  • API Management

Azure solutions

App Modernization

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